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...Davenport, Iowa 77 Urban, Benjamin '62 18 6:0 246 Collinsville, Ill. 75 Zigelis, Andrew '62 18 6:2 210 N. Andover, Mass. 74 *Horschman, Lowell '60 21 6:1 219 Nixon, N. J. 73 Kola, Arthur '61 20 6:2 192 New Brunswick, N. J. 72 Hofmann, Richard '60 19 6:2 206 Jenkintown, Pa. 71 Erwin, Peter '60 21 6:1 207 Freeport, L. I. 70 Mooney, Michael '61 21 6:2 212 Milwaukee, Wisc. GUARDS 69 Philip, William '62 18 6:0 212 Brooklyn, N. Y. 68 Gerfen, Henry '61 20 5:10 190 Des Plaines...
...Hofmann stayed on the couch three hours until the drug's effects wore off. He got up feeling fine. After two years of delicate lab work, he announced last week, Hofmann had managed to isolate a mysterious substance-the chemical that has caused men of many races, through the millennia, to have otherworldly visions after eating certain kinds of mushrooms...
...Hofmann, such chemically induced visions are not new. He is famed among the world's biochemists and psychiatrists because in 1943, by accident, he absorbed (probably through the skin of his fingers, he now speculates) an infinitesimal amount of a potent chemical. For a while it made him wacky. He identified it as lysergic acid diethylamide, now universally known as LSD-25. It has proved an invaluable weapon to psychiatrists seeking to reproduce symptoms like those of schizophrenia (TIME...
Researcher Hofmann moved from LSD to mushrooms thanks largely to Ethnologist (and a J. P. Morgan vice president) R. Gordon Wasson and his Russian-born wife, two dedicated, medical-minded mushroom eaters. The Wassons have voyaged all over the world seeking ritual devotees of exotic mushrooms and sharing their hallucinations, reported on their experiences in LIFE and in a $125 book (only 500 copies printed). Mushrooms, Russia and History. A French companion on their travels sent Hofmann specimens of one of the most potent mushrooms, Psyilocybe mexicana. From its little brown umbrella, perched on a delicate stem, Hofmann isolated...