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...them on the whole because it enjoys them, and not because it wants to demonstrate against Victorian conventions or shock Babbitt. In that sense, it is far less childish than its parents were. As a whole, it is more sober and conservative, but in individual cases, e.g., the recent dope scandals, it makes Flaming Youth look like amateurs...
...Sunday-magazine cover, the Chicago Tribune headlined: I WAS A DOPE ADDICT. It was the first of five chapters telling the sad story of pretty Peggy Ellsworth, 1947's "Miss Michigan," as told to Norma Lee Browning. Trib readers were accustomed to sad stories being told to Reporter Browning. As the Trib's star sob sister, she had masqueraded as a wayward girl, stranded in the city with no money (to measure the size of Chicago's heart), and submitted to phony medical treatment to expose quacks. In Cuba, she scored a beat by swiping the victim...
Reporter Browning's interest in Peggy Ellsworth was merely professional at first. The Trib sent her to Detroit two months ago to get the story when Peggy Ellsworth was arrested as a dope addict. But soon Norma Lee got interested in the beauty queen as a person; she persuaded the judge to give her and her husband custody of Miss Michigan. They took her back to Chicago, moved into a larger apartment so she could live with them, got her a clerking job at radio station WGN, enrolled her for voice and piano lessons. Says Norma Lee: "She seemed...
...star system has backfired: the talents of Helen Hayes and David Niven were wasted in a soggy romance called Not a Chance, while Cinemactor John Payne had only to tighten his jaw muscles menacingly as the Government agent in The Name Is Bellingham, a routine thriller about dope smugglers. But Bellingham was noteworthy for imaginative camerawork, some nice atmosphere touches, and the repeated scene-stealing of minor Actor Guy Thomajon as a devious Chinese businessman...
Last spring, several dog track owners around Boston suspected that the dogs were being doped. They paid the department to examine the urine of the winners for stimulants or sedatives and to do research into dope. The information found was revealed only to the owners and used, technically, in the department's classrooms. "Our prime aim," says Dr. Ford, "is still to educate...