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...students gave some statistical hints from their study of the local bug populations. Every sandwich dropped on their leafy hillside will fall on an average of 102 bugs; a picnic cloth will cover 14,745. Estimated population per acre: more than 40 million chiggers, ants, .spiders, beetles, leaf hoppers, pill bugs, flies, bees, wasps and moths...
...collection of his columns which have been carefully edited with the wisdom of hindsight. Some still unedited Iddon items: ¶"The electric chair is working overtime and Sing Sing's Death Row is jammed as detectives round up gun-happy youths hepped up with dope." ¶"The sleeping-pill habit is getting more widespread [in Hollywood]. Actors and actresses take them to get a few hours' rest and then swallow benzedrine in the morning to do their work." ¶"The simple truth about the Negro in America . . . is that he is treated as subhuman . . . [Negroes] live worse than...
...later, a new advertising technique gave the sexagenarian business an added boost. The ominous crow was retired; the slogan became "Wake up your liver bile!" Jingles urged readers and radio listeners: "When you feel sour and sunk, and the world looks punk . . . Take a Carter's Little Liver Pill." Carter's went on to claim that the increased liver bile would enable the pill-taker to overeat and overindulge in "good times" without morning-after regrets, to wake up "clear-eyed and steady-nerved," "feeling just wonderful," and "alert and ready for work." Copywriters combed the thesaurus...
Along with jittery section men, many pinball artists, punchboard players, and No Dos Pill addicts were apprehensive about results from the inquiry. Radcliffe House Mothers were also said to be nervous, although this condition was unconnected with the creation of the investigatory group...
...have this recording to do. I think I must be fresh, at my best. But I cannot sleep. Someone gave me sleeping pills. I never take pills, never! But I take a pill-and I am wide awake. So I take another and I begin to feel drowsy. And I get mad. To think that that little pill, that so little pill, can dominate...