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...Cream. Some of the props for this extravaganza were hard to find. The average pop drinker would get only 30 bottles of his favorite carbonated beverage (as compared to a prewar plenty of 50). Marshmallows were short. So was beer. Buying a fly rod called for more negotiation than ordering a pound of opium. But ice cream production was up; the U.S. would eat 850 million gallons (mostly chocolate and vanilla) as compared to 400 million in 1945. And the briefest, trickiest women's bathing suits yet appeared on window dummies and good-looking girls from coast to coast...
...practical purposes, Dr. Seliger defines an alcoholic as a person who is "handled by alcohol" to such an extent that it takes him out of one or more of the traffic lanes of life; he uses liquor as a narcotic. A "social," or moderate, drinker, is one who is supposed to "handle liquor" successfully...
Alcoholism is a symptom of illness, not a disease in itself. A pathologic drinker gets that way for a number of reasons: as escape (from his job, a nagging wife, depression); because he cannot adjust his personality to the normal course of life; by the "one for the road" philosophy which leads him away from controlled drinking; through mental illness, physical pain or immature emotional makeup. No one is born an alcoholic; heredity is only an excuse...
Benzedrine also has its ,addicts and can produce bizarre symptoms. An interesting case was reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine: a neurotic 49-year-old lawyer, formerly a very heavy drinker, who originally took the drug on a doctor's prescription for an "all-gone feeling." He found that "the effect of the drug was so stimulating that he gave up the use of alcohol. . . ." From a starting dose of a twenty-fifth of a gram a day, he worked up to one-quarter of a gram a day in five years...
...fans to the third floor. The resultant uproar from the 28 unsoundproofed cubbyholes usually involves the trial flights of several singers, a dozen pianists, a hot accordion, strings and horns, all at once. One soldier motorcycles up from Ft. Belvoir (Va.) for violin lessons from Author Catherine Drinker Bowen (Yankee from Olympus...