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...been "busted" (jailed) last year for taking heroin. "But I kicked [got rid of the habit]. I have no eyes to weigh 94 lbs. again. You couldn't see me if I turned sideways." Now why, she demanded, was she put in jail merely for "smoking a pot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: Mother Is Bugged at Me | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

...felt, was neither habit forming nor harmful. But people insisted on acting as though it were bad like getting "lushed" (drunk), and all the squares put you down strong (turned on you). "Those dope stories-all about how you go around killing old ladies when you smoke a pot. It's a real drag. Actually, you just sit around and listen to music. I love Bach. Mozart? No comment. Mendelssohn? How square can you get? I want it modern. I want to go to Sweden where it really wails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: Mother Is Bugged at Me | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

...Olympic Year, and if there were a pot-bellied stove in the lobby of the indoor Athletic Building, it's likely that old Harvard men would be sitting there discussing the good old times, past Olympic years...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 6/3/1952 | See Source »

...committed to the principle of national origins, which in many ways is as selfish and unjust as the liberals last week said it was. But in all the debate, nobody has appeared with a substitute principle that has much chance of acceptance by those already in the melting pot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Code for the Melting Pot | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...Captain William Henry Smith Grant, a kilted, decorated veteran of two wars,† never made a blend in his life, and neither did his distilling forebears-father, grandfather and great-grandfather. Their only product was, and still is, pure malt whisky, slowly distilled from barley in old-fashioned pot stills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIQUOR: The Quintessence | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

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