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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sandoz will release psilocybin only to highly reputable medical investigators. To them, it means that they can now use a third chemically pure substance-in addition to LSD-25 and mescaline-to induce controllable symptoms like those of uncontrolled mental illness. From such studies they hope to find chemical cures...
...baseball's sociological basement. Third Baseman Ossie Virgil, native of the Dominican Republic, was called up from the minors, became the first Negro to play for the Tigers. Sole survivor from the old days of lily-white big-league ball: the Boston Red Sox, who have yet to find room on their roster for a Negro...
...suffragette, Sylvia Field was born in Patchogue, N.Y., had her pretty head turned toward economics in 1929 when the stock market collapse wiped out her family's money. Then a 16-year-old freshman at Manhattan's Hunter College, she switched from English to economics to find out why, graduated magna cum laude with a Phi Beta Kappa...
...gaudy tale of a murderer who could talk freely about his crime. In 1950 Donald Hume was tried for the murder of a tinhorn used-car dealer named Stanley Setty. After his first trial produced a hung jury, the judge presiding at his second trial directed the jurors to find Hume not guilty of murder. Hume pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of being an accessory after the fact-he had dumped Setty's dismembered body from an airplane over the Thames estuary...
Last week Mary charged in a divorce suit that during the single month they lived together before she left him, Leland had threatened her life, had quit his job at the ironworks and said that if she didn't support him, he would find somebody else who would. He did not contest the suit...