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...January 1954 issue Confidential called Editor Stuart, among other things, an admitted extortioner, a hate peddler and a coddler of Communists. To keep the $9,000 in settlement of his $250,000 suit (and presumably to keep Confidential's vulnerability confidential). Stuart had to agree not to discuss the case or publicize it beyond printing the outcome in his paper. Confidential's lawyers can now turn their attention to the magazine's other libel suits filed by such better-known figures as Doris Duke, Errol Flynn and Robert Mitchum, and totaling at the latest count...
...federal institution, has already won a partial victory over the habit. When he comes home, however, his determination to leave the cards and the heroin and to find a job as a drummer soon breaks again. In just a few days, a lying and rapacious wife, a preying dope peddler, and his own weakness send Frankie screaming to a locked room, to break the habit once more...
...proposed a detailed program of controls, which they are drafting into specific legislation. Among the recommendations: ¶The smuggling and sale of heroin should be punishable by penalties ranging from five years in prison to death. Explaining his reasons for recommending such harsh punishment, Daniel said: "Heroin smugglers and peddlers are selling murder, robbery and rape, and should be dealt with accordingly. Their offense is human destruction as surely as that of the murderer. In truth and fact, it is 'murder on the installment plan.' " The death penalty, he added, should be imposed only in an extreme case...
...wife bleeds him white, Schwiefka sets up a frame. Frankie finds himself in jail on a bum rap. In return for one night in the dealer's slot, Schwiefka bails him out. Frightened and discouraged, Frankie is an easy mark for the needle of Louie, the dope peddler (Darren McGavin), who suggests that just one little fix is all he needs to get him round the bend. One fix leads to another, and another to another, until one day he is sitting in a cheap hotel with a price on his head and nothing to stop the pain...
...neighborhood is asked about Michael Reese, whose name is carved in bold stone above the main entrance, he has a hard time answering. "A German immigrant who made his fortune in California real estate," is the accepted version. The cynical have more colorful addenda. Reese (ne Ries) was a peddler who went to California in the wake of the Forty-Niners and, some say, made himself a stake by rolling gold-laden drunks as a sideline...