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...that pushers use powdered lactose to dilute-and thus enlarge-their supplies, some addicts inject themselves with milk in an attempt to offset an overdose. The results are dangerous indeed, since milk contains proteins and fats that produce severe reactions when introduced directly into the bloodstream. According to Drs. Ernst Drenick and Kenneth Younger, one heroin addict whose friends injected milk into his veins became comatose and required extensive emergency treatment before he recovered. Two others were not so fortunate. One suffered permanent brain damage after he mainlined milk; the other died...
...technique, these images suggest such modern masters of collage as Kurt Schwitters or Max Ernst. But their "modernity" has as much to do with their obsessiveness as their means. Collage was not unknown in the mid-19th century-it was often used for greeting cards, decorative screens and the like-and Andersen was clearly one of the first men to use it as a possible language...
...Ernst Mayr, director and professor of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, received one of the six 1970 National Medal of Science Awards for his contributions to systematics, bio-geography, the study of birds, and the evolution of animal populations...
Died. Agnes Ernst Meyer, 83, widow of Washington Post Board Chairman Eugene Meyer, mother of Katharine Meyer Graham, its present publisher, and for years a power on the paper; in Mount Kisco, N.Y. Mrs. Meyer cut her journalistic teeth in 1907 as the first woman reporter for the old New York Sun. In 1933, she convinced her financier husband that he should buy the faltering Post for $825,000, and together they set about curing its ills; while he and his associates strengthened circulation, advertising and news coverage, she crusaded for social causes (education, housing) through exposes and lectures...
...venture fell through when he made no sale for six months. "Since I guaranteed the artists that I'd sell 10% of their works, I almost had to start a collection," he says. He took off for Paris, where the artists whose works he had bought-Max Ernst, Man Ray, and Marcel Duchamp-repaid him by giving him pointers in painting. Today Copley's Surrealist collection ranks as the finest in the U.S., takes up much of his spacious Manhattan apartment, where he lives with his China-born wife,' Chuang-Hua, the author of a 1969 novel...