Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hopped Hogs. In Paducah, Ky., mystified Lewis Schmidt's hogs were finally cured of acute dopiness when a vet changed their bedding. The old bedding: marijuana leaves which, when warmed by the hogs' bodies, had given them pipe dreams...
...seaweed in their gathering places in Shinjuku and Mukojima, where, I am certain, Mr. Byas did not have the interesting fortune to enter upon the conclaves and hear the plots. The locale and character are as different as Sherman Billingsley's Stork Club and a Harlem honky-tonk marijuana parlor...
...betray him into the venal successes of the "swing" rage. Between the two of them they cover most of the salient features of jazz and Jazz-living among white musicians. There is some sore stuff on that corrupt necessity, the musician's union, and an interesting passage about marijuana. Send Me Down, in its own scale, is a likable enough performance. But it is scarcely adequate to its subject...
...Cleveland, Mrs. Rebecca Butler found out why people kept pulling up stalks from her hedge. Police discovered that it consisted of marijuana...
George Baker plays the piano in a fading but still powerful commercial band. Baker and several of his colleagues play a better music (hot jazz) than their boss will allow them, but they have their living to make. When Leader Walters takes on a marijuana-shattered former employe named Frenchy Beausea for the sake of Frenchy's metallic wife, whom he svengalizes into a smash singer, the whole band ripens for trouble. It bursts, at length, in a riverfront dive in St. Louis. At the end of it George Baker has realized his own powers and is free...