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...site as an indirect result of the explosions. In Manhattan, police picked carefully through the rubble of the West 11th Street house, where at least three people died. There, in the ruins, they found a severed finger, which enabled them to identify one of the victims as Diana Oughton, 28, a talented, idealistic girl whose turn to radicalism brought her in the end to a rebel bomb factory...
Most Americans find it difficult to grasp that some of the brightest and best-cared-for young are so enraged that they have opted for the nihilism of blowing up society. Diana Oughton's story provides some answers-and engenders some pessimism as well...
...Bartenders, a notably abstemious race, are drinking more than they used to. The Keeley ("Drunkenness Is a Disease") Institute reported that the number of bartenders treated had risen from three in 1940 to 28 last year. Said Director James H. Oughton Jr.: "Perhaps it is . . . the chaotic condition of world politics and economics. A bartender must listen to constant discussion of these topics...
Last week the Keeley Institute celebrated its 60th anniversary. Before a small crowd of enthusiastic but sober alumni, Director James Henry Oughton Jr. unveiled a bronze plaque of Founder Leslie E. Keeley, a Civil War surgeon who announced his cure in 1879. With his famed slogan, "Drunkenness is a disease and I can cure it," and his "secret" injections of gold chloride, Dr. Keeley amassed a fortune of over $1,000,000. During the 'gos, Keeley clubs flourished all over the U. S., proud Keeley alumni sported shiny gold buttons, preached excitingly confessional sermons to female temperance societies...
...course, Keeley Drs. Robert Estill Maupin, Bert Trippeer and Andrew Jackson McGee look him over, ask him if he still feels the "irresistible craving of nerve cells for alcohol." Usually he says no. How many of the 400,000 Keeley graduates have stayed cured, Director Oughton does not know, for he has no means of checking up. Although most physicians now believe that drunkards are neurotics and cannot be cured by injections, Keeley stoutly boasts that it has cured 17,000 drunken doctors since it first opened its doors...