Word: addict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunday-magazine cover, the Chicago Tribune headlined: I WAS A DOPE ADDICT. It was the first of five chapters telling the sad story of pretty Peggy Ellsworth, 1947's "Miss Michigan," as told to Norma Lee Browning. Trib readers were accustomed to sad stories being told to Reporter Browning. As the Trib's star sob sister, she had masqueraded as a wayward girl, stranded in the city with no money (to measure the size of Chicago's heart), and submitted to phony medical treatment to expose quacks. In Cuba, she scored a beat by swiping the victim...
Reporter Browning's interest in Peggy Ellsworth was merely professional at first. The Trib sent her to Detroit two months ago to get the story when Peggy Ellsworth was arrested as a dope addict. But soon Norma Lee got interested in the beauty queen as a person; she persuaded the judge to give her and her husband custody of Miss Michigan. They took her back to Chicago, moved into a larger apartment so she could live with them, got her a clerking job at radio station WGN, enrolled her for voice and piano lessons. Says Norma Lee: "She seemed...
...happy, too. She was helping Peggy and she had a good story. But the happiness melted last week, two days after Norma Lee's first Trib article ran. Peggy phoned Norma Lee at midnight: "I'm in jail again." She had met two musician friends, known addicts, and gone for a ride. Police stopped their car because its lights were off, and arrested all three under a law which forbids addicts to "loiter." The afternoon papers gleefully splashed the story on their front pages. Brayed Hearst's Herald-American: 'i WAS AN ADDICT' GIRL HELD...
...casual prostitute and drug addict, Nancy nonetheless has an implacable loyalty to children. Better a dead child than a neglected or abandoned one, she feels. When Temple gets ready to snatch up her six-month-old daughter and run off with Pete, she finds the infant smothered to death in its crib. This brings Temple, screaming, to her senses, and Nancy, serene, to the gallows...
...some listeners mentioning him in the same breath with Caruso. As Don Alvaro in Verdi's bloody La Forza del Destino last week, Poleri had the same kind of effect on Edinburgh. Wrote the critic of the London Daily Express: "The kind of tenor singing which an opera addict is lucky to hear once in five years...