Word: doping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doldrums & Dope. LIFE-NBC, which had stolen the show at the conventions, claimed a majority of the TV audience. A two-hour check by C.E. Hooper* in New York City gave it more than twice the rating of its runner-up, ABC. Unlike the rest, it never took a rest and was on the air longest (14 hours 38 minutes), while collars wilted and whiskers sprouted. Like CBS, it had the enterprise to go to Washington, Philadelphia and Baltimore to pick up interviews and color...
...Drew Pearson. Both kept their noses in their scripts and their balding heads under hats. Winchell displayed his usual talent for saying nothing at all with the strident urgency of Gabriel trumpeting Judgment Day. Pearson repaired to a phone from time to time and returned to dispense "inside" dope which was not particularly informative, but had a lively jangle. The real ABC sparkplug-and TV's top election reporter -was white-haired Elmer Davis, who spoke extemporaneously, generally made sense and radiated authority...
...whole cast of the Robert Mitchum dope case, troubles kept multiplying. Having failed to get the marijuana indictment dismissed, the droopy-eyed film star and two codefendants, all pleading "not guilty," would have to stand trial. Two days after her courtroom appearance, Dancer Vickie Evans, who would get a further hearing on her dismissal plea, was picked up in a 3:30 a.m. raid on a gambling joint. The charge: vagrancy. Hinting that she was being persecuted, Vickie cried: "I'm through with Hollywood. I want to go home to Philadelphia." Starlet Lila Leeds was being sued for return...
Michigan and Alabama are not even in the running, according to the Williamson dope sheet. They rank nineteenth and twentieth, respectively...
...hardworking, sober, law-abiding, family-loving. This picture of the town, while true as far as it goes, glosses over the fact that under the klieg-lit, high-pressure, high-paid strains peculiar to Hollywood, some of its supertense citizens sometimes volatilize and take to drink, adultery or dope. The movie industry, beset last week on every side by box-office woes, heckling from Washington and quotas from Britain, trembled to think that the old bogey of Hollywood's marrow-bone wickedness might be revived...