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...producers Jim Gutman and David Helpern said yesterday that they have submitted a prospectus for the six-month series to Polaroid and to the National Endowment for the Arts, both of whom have indicated interest in helping to finance the newsreel...
...Helpern says, "because each addict's tolerance to heroin can vary not only from week to week but from day to day, depending on how much he has been using...
Heroin is usually injected directly into a vein or "mainlined," and it soon slows down vital functions. A large enough dose will stop them altogether. Yet it is often difficult to determine the exact cause of death. Dr. Milton Helpern, New York City's chief medical examiner, says that there is no clear evidence of simple overdose in the great majority of heroin deaths. Instead, 90% are caused by what he calls an "acute reaction" to the drug or its adulterants. "We don't like to call them overdoses...
...relied on the experts-and they came through with explicit, if esoteric evidence. Although scientists never had before been able to find traces of the drug after it had been injected into a patient, pioneering experiments under the direction of veteran New York City Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Milton Helpern (who also had testified against Coppolino in the first trial) and his aide, Toxicologist Charles Joseph Umberger, revealed that there were components of it in Carmela's brain and liver. Try as Bailey might to refute their testimony by calling other medical witnesses, the New Yorkers' findings proved...
Prosecutor's Nightmare. Although Bailey put on his own medical witnesses to cast doubt on Helpern's testimony and to deride the possibility of crime by hypnotism, his major strategy was to impugn Marge Farber.* Throughout he described her as a woman scorned who lived only for revenge on Coppolino. "She would sit in his lap in the electric chair," said Bailey, "just to see that he dies." When Coppolino moved to Florida, Widow Farber and her two daughters followed, settling in a house next door. Bailey developed testimony that Marge wanted to marry Coppolino after his first...