Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Gene Krupa, aging (50) jazz drummer, famed for his wide, colorful range of techniques and his difficulties with the law over marijuana matters; and Patricia Bowler, 25, a secretary from Springfield, Mass.; he for the second time (the first Mrs. Krupa died in 1955), she for the first; in Yonkers...
...Execution of 493 "war criminals," mostly Batista cops and soldiers. Last week a firing squad executed a marijuana peddler as a "social benefit." Castro says illegal gambling, misappropriation of government funds and counter-revolutionary activities (effective political opposition) could bring the same penalty. Total effect is to make opposition to Castro by speech or writing seem at least imprudent...
Griefer. In Glendora, Calif., police arrested William Doyle, 20, and Ronald Manwill, 20, for planting marijuana in a cemetery...
...Veeck, "being in baseball is like taking dope," and now that he is back, he has marijuana-sized dreams for the White Sox. Chicago is a potential gold mine, says Veeck: "Industry is diversified so that if one sector of the economy is hurting, it doesn't kill you like it would in Detroit or Pittsburgh." He intends to pull all the stops. His first object, he says, is "putting on the field the best ball club." Then come the gimmicks: fireworks shows at $1,000 a clip, a baby-sitting service for mothers, free nylons for the ladies...
...Suzy's romance. Since he won't get space in J.J.'s column until he does, Falco resorts in turn to blackmailing one rival columnist and procuring a prostitute for another in order to have an item smearing Dallas printed in the papers. Just to make sure, he plants marijuana in Dallas' coat and has him beaten and then arrested by a Hunsecker-owned police officer. Indeed, Sidney walks in "moral twilight," "a cookie full of arsenic...