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...tormentors, that the blood plasma Danny's father gave may have saved the life of Tommy's G.I. dad. Explains Sinatra: "Don't you get what I'm telling you? Religion doesn't make any real difference, except to a Nazi or a dope. . . . My father came from Italy. But I'm an American and should I hate your father, Tommy, because he came from Ireland or France or Russia? Wouldn't I be a fathead...
...Vaughan is an elder-were enchanted to discover that he was as excitingly frank as he was informal. They had invited him to speak, and he spoke. By the time word of his speech got back to the capital, Washington wits cracked that they had now heard the uncensored dope on all topics of national interest...
...months in the Navy, Feller brought out Cleveland's biggest baseball crowd in three years (46,477). Besides his old 100 m.p.h. fireball, he showed the fans new confidence and control. Because he no longer knew the batters, he had to confer frequently with Catcher Frankie Hayes-whose dope was apparently sound. Feller struck out twelve of the league-leading Detroit Tigers (including Hank Greenberg and Rudy York twice apiece), gave only four hits, walked five, won in a 4-2 breeze. Said he, afterwards: "I will be able to reach a keener edge as I go along...
...white opium poppies burst into bloom last week in the barren mountains of Northwest Mexico, setting the stage for melodrama. Troops rode through the hidden valleys, determined to stop the opium harvest. But the contraband harvesters, brown farmers and shepherds, bent on sharing the highest dope prices in history from over the border, eluded the soldiers...
Like Sherlock Holmes, he used narcotics, to brighten up the dull months of idleness. But he took the cure regularly, never allowed morphine to disturb his meticulous planning. Nevertheless, drugs were his undoing. To get his supplies, in a tight wartime dope market, he forged the signature of a Chicago physician. That was careless. He was arrested (as Major Maclay), sent to a Federal Narcotics Hospital at Lexington, Ky. For months nobody suspected that he was Mr. X, the fabulous forger. After painful checking, the FBI identified...