Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horse-track touts, drug peddlers and plain tourists who winter in Cuba were reading the Broadway columns with closer interest. Every now & then they found a nice little item about "Lucky" Luciano, and in Havana it was pretty common knowledge that Lucky was wintering in Cuba...
Mobster Luciano, pimp and drug peddler, was beginning to look like a nice guy -if anybody believed the columns. Since he had been sprung from prison and deported to Italy, some of the columnists had discovered a heart of gold beating under his silk shirt. Somehow, said the keyhole-peepers, Lucky from his prison cell had helped the U.S. win the war. The Mirror's Walter Winchell solemnly assured his readers that after Lucky died, the Congressional Medal of Honor would be awarded...
There were fresh reinforcements for the "wonder" drug streptomycin (against which some bugs are fighting back...
...Selman A. Waksman, streptomycin's discoverer, produced a sister drug named grisein from the same soil organism. Grisein's job: to knock out (with the help of streptomycin) bacteria that develop a resistance to streptomycin alone...
Only explanations offered by the thief are that he "enjoyed a good time" adding later that his robberies were done to aid a girl-friend to cure her of the drug habit. Only visitors to see him since his arrest have been his father and lawyer, and no further details have been available...