Word: dexamyl
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...mostly on drink and pills. A trifle defensively, Williams puts his intake of liquor at half of a fifth a day. "It's more like half a fifth of bourbon and half a fifth of vodka," says a friend. Williams at times takes half a Dexamyl to "pep up," 1½ Seconals a day "to smooth things over," and two Miltowns with Scotch to go to sleep...
Career No. 5, the arduous business of being a celebrity, devours every minute of Bernstein's life that escapes the other four. Occasionally fortified with Dexamyl, he copes with interviews, conferences, half a dozen different agents, the management of his income (an estimated $100,000 last year), greenroom receptions and after-concert parties ? at which lie may call for a pot of caviar and talk lucidly for hours...