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...blue denim dress in the county jail the next day, she spoke with righteous indignation. She had been "busted" (jailed) last year for taking heroin. "But I kicked [got rid of the habit]. I have no eyes to weigh 94 lbs. again. You couldn't see me if I turned sideways." Now why, she demanded, was she put in jail merely for "smoking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: Mother Is Bugged at Me | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

...life of $10 silk underwear and shiny Lincolns, insisted that "the only two vices I've got are good clothes and a beautiful home." Out & in & out of jail since 1940, a terrified Waxey was nabbed last August in Manhattan with a pound ($200,000 worth) of heroin. "Kill me! Let me run and then shoot me!" he sobbed, on his knees. "This is the end of the line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 7, 1952 | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

After a while, Amy had something more to lie about. "I blew up joints for more'n a year before I ever fixed. Fixed is jolting, you know-taking a shot of H in the main line. H is heroin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blowing Up a Joint | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...summer again, Jocelyn had been sent off to Women's Prison, and Amy had a new girl friend, Hortense. The two girls dropped in on friends who were having a heroin party. "We said we didn't want to jolt, but . . . you know how it is when a lot of kids are around; they all started to laugh ... I didn't have the money to buy a cap [shot] with. Danny said he'd give me one; he said it real quick. That's what they always do, any hype that wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blowing Up a Joint | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...still only 16 when, by threats and cajolery, she won her parents' reluctant permission to marry Eddie Neale, who was all of 21 and a confirmed narcotics addict. Their routine was to spend $25 for a half-spoon of heroin, enough to make ten or twelve individual shots. They sold the shots for $5 apiece. But, confesses Amy, "even that didn't pay for all the jolting we did after we got married. Eddie was spending around $40 a day sometimes just for the junk for us to jolt with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blowing Up a Joint | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

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