Word: opium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tightening up his too-late theme, Author Lewis turns the vise of his plot until poor Crane is crushed. Trouble begins with some petty thieving of company lumber. Then a company truck is am bushed and the driver killed. The major investigates for Crane, tangles with the local opium-smuggling ring and is blown up with a hand grenade. In the meantime, Crane receives more bad news: the com pany's teak contract has not been renewed; everyone must go home in 21 months. Home for Crane means a dreary London suburb arid a nagging, neurotic wife. Rather than...
...else in the world do museums attract such crowds. Each day at the Metropolitan I watched the milling crowd, a young and athletic crowd that took pleasure in being there . . . What did they seek? . . . Simply the past of the whole universe. [But] in America the museum is not an opium one inhales to rediscover lost paradises . . . Confronted by admired works of art, [Americans] do not have that humble reaction that, too often in Europe, leaves one with the conviction that one was born too late and can never equal them. In America, when one goes to a museum...
...sensational charge in his monthly magazine Attua-lita. Wilma had not gone to Ostia, he said, but to a swank hunting lodge in nearby Capocotto, where wild orgies were conducted by a Roman nobleman who ran a narcotics ring. Wilma, said Attualita, apparently passed out from too much opium and was thrown on the beach by her companion and left to drown...
...Editor Talks. Seven months later, Attualita, a sensational new Italian picture magazine, hit the stands with Wilma's face on the cover under a broad band which said: "The Truth Behind the Death of Wilma Montesi." She had not drowned, said Attualita; she had died of overindulgence in opium taken at one of Roman society's most exclusive hunting clubs. Last week Attualita's editor, mustached, 24-year-old Silvano Muto, was haled into court and ordered to explain his charges. Threatened with a jail sentence unless he talked, Muto let go with an explosion of names...
...Italy's Foreign Minister, the head of a great chemical trust, and many other big names. Muto named one prominent Roman, the wealthy, white-haired Marchese Ugo Montagna di San Bartolomeo, as the leader of an international dope-smuggling ring who lured young girls to opium-drenched downfalls. When reporters reached the Milanese attorney's daughter, she calmly admitted that she had indeed once been the marchese's mistress...