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Blonde Donna Wingenroth was no beatnik "acid head" looking for a trip into the fantastic with LSD. Still, she ate a sugar cube laced with the hallucinogenic drug and had to be taken to the hospital, alternately laughing and screaming hysterically. After a stomach pumping and a few days on intravenous feedings, she recovered. Last week she went home, and her doctors are confident that she has suffered no permanent brain damage. Only five years old, Donna was an innocent victim of the dangerous LSD craze (TIME, March 11); she had found the "candy" cube in the refrigerator...
...little girl's near-tragedy were not enough, last week Brooklyn produced another LSD case with still more ominous implications. Mrs. Florence Cooper, 57, was found slashed to death in her apartment, and police called on her son-in-law, Stephen Henry Kessler, 30, for routine questioning. Kessler, the cops said, asked excitedly: "Did I kill my wife? Did I rape anyone? What have I done?" Then he added: "Man, I've been flying for three days on LSD...
Navel Glories. Charged with homicide, Kessler was sent for psychiatric investigation to Kings County Hospital. But even before the medical reports were in, his background became known. He was a Harvard undergraduate in 1952-57, too early to hear Psychologist Timothy Leary expounding the beauties of LSD and winning converts to his cult. Unsure what to do for a while after graduation, Kessler considered the law and did well in qualifying exams, but eventually turned to medicine and became a student at New York's Downstate Medical Center. Because of personality difficulties, he withdrew last November. Kessler experimented with...
...Donald B. Louria, chairman of the New York County Medical Society's committee on narcotics, the Kessler case fitted a pattern. In the last year, he said, 75 patients were admitted to Bellevue because of LSD reactions, nine of them reported "uncontrollable impulses toward violence," and two of these had attempted murder...
...Princeton," purrs the guide, "is the only place in the world where, when a boy and his date walk past a mirror, it's the boy who stops to comb his hair." At Harvard girls must beware of the "dope party," which "features LSD as a starter, and anything as a finisher, and lots of great Happenings in between...