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...faith in the suggestibility of mankind, started his clinic, known originally as the Body & Soul, in 1923 in connection with Manhattan's famous church of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie. Six years later, Actress Jeanne Eagels died in his Park Avenue sanitarium, of an overdose of heroin. By 1932, after Dr. Cowles had treated several thousand patients in St. Mark's, the vestrymen told Dr. Cowles to clear out. This action was approved by Bishop William T. Manning...
DEATH IN ECSTASY - Ngaio Marsh -Sheridan House ($2). Sacred Flame Limited, a piece of religious quackery in London, harbors heroin sniffers, pansies a killer...
...into the wealthy boss of "protective corporations" in Manhattan's fur, garment, painting, trucking and other trades. His gorillas slugged, knifed, threw lye in the eyes of merchants who did not pay up. Murder, if necessary, did not bother Lepke, the Leopard. When he went in for financing heroin smugglers in a big way, he had already become quite used to having people rubbed out. Two years ago he dropped out of sight, jumped bail after being indicted with his partner, Jake ("Gurrah")* Shapiro, on racketeering charges. People who knew about him began disappearing, also. Two were murdered...
Morphine is the favorite drug of addicts. Next in popularity are opium-smoking ("rolling the log") and heroin. Cocaine is not so widely used as formerly...
...Drug addiction does not lead to perpetration of violent crimes. Said Dr. Lawrence Kolb, top man in the field: "Both heroin and morphine in large doses change drunken, fighting psychopaths into sober, cowardly, nonaggressive idlers. . . ." High cost of bootleg drugs, however, practically forces addicts of small incomes to resort to sneak thievery ("rooting on the derrick...