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Finally, we have the armchair commentators, who cannot resist speculating on the hallucinogens. Why do intellectuals take the drugs? What are the implications for society? David F. Ricks and Chase Mellen reduce the whole issue to escapism. Ricks talks about despair, ennui and neurosis, Mellen about the contradictions between peyote eating and the Protestant ethic. But neither really faces the fact that ingesting psychedelics is different from taking heroin or watching television. S. Clarke Woodroe goes a bit deeper. Discussing the drug experiences of Baudelaire, de Quincey and other writers, he makes some interesting points about the relation between drugs...
...Candidate Kennedy, he also had his uneasy moments. Invading the Minnesota-bordering, Humphrey-leaning, predominantly Protestant Tenth District, Kennedy glad-handed through towns that were called Mellen and Glidden, Park Falls and Montreal. Barreling along at 90 m.p.h. on the outskirts of Ladysmith, the Kennedy motorcade slowed down as it got near a group of cheering nuns and postulants, chilled from waiting at the roadside. Kennedy ordered a halt, hopped out of his car. One postulant wished him a happy St. Patrick's Day, pinned a green ribbon on his lapel. But Kennedy looked uncomfortable when photographers' bulbs...
...fast spiel and reams of charts to do their selling. Yet a good part-time salesman can make $10,000 or $15,000 a year in commissions, full-time salesmen up to $25,000. Says Miss Irma Bender, a top fund salesman for Cleveland's Joseph, Mellen & Miller: "I tell prospects that investing in funds is as easy as buying...
...letter to Chase Mellen '20, the fund's executive director, C. Harold Berry, Dean of the Medical School, said that the gift would be used to meet the school's "top priority, that is, making more secure our teachers in the basic medical sciences...
Married. Preston Sturges, 52, screen director (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek), writer (Strictly Dishonorable), inventor (a kissproof lipstick); and Ann Margaret ("Sandy" Mellen) Nagle, 21, actress; he for the fourth time, she for the second; at his restaurant in Hollywood...