Word: underworldly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barry, by Stanley Loomis. A biography of the girl who learned the social and sinful graces in the Paris underworld, became the last mistress of Louis...
...enforcement and its failures for ten years. For addicts he urges medical treatment, both physical and psychiatric, as well as help in rehabilitating themselves, and long-term doctors' care. Only thus, he argues, can the illicit traffic in marijuana and narcotics, estimated at $400 million a year in underworld profits, be wiped...
...with the administration of the law, that drug addiction is less of a legal than a social and medical problem. Murtagh is outraged because bull-necked Federal Narcotics Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger dismisses the addict as "an immoral, vicious social leper." As the law works, Murtagh points out, multimillionaire underworld masterminds are virtually never caught (Genovese is a rare exception), and neither are the stratified middlemen, who peddle heroin in amounts down to ounces (at $500 an ounce for the pure "horse"). A few "pushers" (the smallest of small-fry peddlers) are caught, but for the most part the courts...
...Barry, by Stanley Loomis. A biography of the girl who learned the social and sinful graces in the Paris underworld, became the last mistress of Louis...
Pete Kelly's Blues (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). The music, in this series about a cornet player forever running head on into underworld bricks, is authentically blue, but the story line is too often merely mauve...