The China. Mail's expose on drug addicts: Part III
SQUALOR
UNBELIEVABLE
IN
1956 Billy was sent to prison for nine months
for being in possession of dangerous drugs. It was his second conviction. He had a "cold turkey" cure in prison, and when he came out in November he was completely broken of drugs and full of good intentions never to touch them again.
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"I thought it would be easy of being broken off drags under to stay off," he went on. "I the doctors' care.” know Margaret bated dings and i went back to live with her
there could be no
templation.".
But when he returned to the flat it was to find that Mur- garet had succumbed while he WOR in prison and WAN DOW Herself n conitrined Junkiel
Within a few days, Billy was back On drugs 18 Armly addicted as ever.
un
"Margaret became a patient with one of the doctors. She Introduced me, and I was taken balk her panel, too. We decided we wanted to be cures, and as trese two doctors were the only ants who had!
over taken a vent understanding us juntes, we thought We slood a fair chance,
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in
"Margaret went for a cure Best. She went into a nursing home, and streveded in being broken of drugs. But whea
the
the and 110- came where to five, except with me herself a confirmed junkie!
"Life In that flat then became
anake-pil. а
We
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were continually fighting. When she saw me infecting myself, All her cravings returned. She would scream and lead with me to give her some. "knew what she was going through, but I wouldn't give her ny. I couldn't cure my self. But she was off drugs. wanted her to stay off them.
"Eventually Margaret got the stuft somewhere else, and be carne a junkie ugain.”
So Billy's cute began. was installed in a fut and gradually, under tiny and night supervision, his drugs withdrawn.
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Says Billy: "I was in 'a heit Hour on earth for six days. after hour, I iny there schrm- ing to kill the doctors, I he came a weak
kitten. drenched in sweat, shaking, drained.
couldn't cat, enuidn't sleep, couldn't think.
The day I got my last drug Injection, Just any quantity of dore, I had no strength left, I was too weak even to talk."
I
151fly pauser. "Now I've been off drugs whole werk. I'm fellas! betler, stronger, every I'm off them....und I'm HAY.
The Foing to stay off them. dretera have done 11. They've nol only broken me of drugs. They've made me want--really win--to slay cured,"
Billy broken of drugs in prison. What has previously been so different about this cute?
"Everything."
replied he simply. "Estore. when I was fely taken off, 1
the cure. I hated those who were imposing 1 on me. Ay 240 241 rot a chaner, I went ick on drugs....just to spite them.
"But the e doctors handle you diffrently. They will co along with you, sympathize act encourage you, until you make
up YOUR mind that you WANT a cure. Then, when you are ready, they
and help step in
I you.
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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1959.
Logan
HE
WHO KNOWS AND
TELLS IN HIS OWN
UNMISTAKABLE WAY
Gourlay
When your wife
tells you: 'Your
book is terrible'
in
I asked him what he thought about Lord Malvern's recent generalisation that "All Africans
E was wearing one on that almmering continent than many of the garrulous of those black eye politclubs. patches like that gent the American shirt ads. Ile locked handsome and on- pressive like that gent in the American shirt ads.
But there, I'm afraid, the Comparison, ends,
He wasn't wearing a shirt of any description And he was ulvertising nothing except Robert Ruark, journalist, big- game hunter, best-sziler author.
DISARMING
are Bars,"
Said Ruark; "In my experi- ence all politicians are lars."
For his next book, "Poor No More." Ruark has moved to the jungle of American big business and pollties,
It runs to about 400,000 words, and represents three years
definitely OB
autobiographical title for Ruark, who started his career as dick hand.
of
To date "Something Value," another apt title, has made him over 600,000 dollars.
"But my book curflugs are
sald heavily taxed,"
Ruark, Touring
the more Scotch on rocks,
my
"I depend mainly on earnings as a journalist. I still de NY syndicated newspaper column for América which rings me about 05,000 dollars a year, Say about £23,000 in your dough,
"Maybe us columnists are over-paid, but I'm not complain- Ing. What do you make?"
I said: "Much tesa. "I am complaining."
★ ★
THE MAN whose car
into mine ran
in
hard work on a typewriter with Kensington, making
two muscular fingers...
Just back from African sufort he sat in his Savoy Hotel suite, bare to the waist, cradling his drink on his sun-tanned and Birnute navel, A man's drink bure." of course-Scotch on the rocks, But I mustn't get carried away as though I were a lady I mustn't give you
the wrong impression of Robert
Ruark, clad or uncled.
All through the withdrawal of drugs they do it sympathe-columnist,
enlly. They know what the Junkie is going through, and help him with sedatives and, more important, with kindness, to fight the agony.
Margaret was now too sick to carry on Bs a call-girl. Billy couldn't work. They lived in unbelievable squalor existing only from one "x" to the next, The doctors wanted me to
"And when It's all over, they take .cure, but I kept pulling are sul) there to help you get them off, inaking excuses, I a job, gửi back on your own hadn't enourth will-power left two feel," even to take up my mind," said Dilly.
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he
A few days after I spoke to Bly he was taken in a car to a main-line station, with single ticket in his pocket to his home. Four hundred miles away from the city where started on the down-gradu to a living hell, he has started work as a walter in an hotel, He writes to the doctors TC- gularly, telling them how he is getting on.
"One day, a couple of months ogo. I was so ek for trogs - I had no money buy extra the Linck market I altered a prescription. I was caught and taken to court, One Of the doctors came lo the hoorty: anci spoke on behalf. As a result of this inter- vention, 1 was conditionally dis- charged, couldn't have gone He is four hundred miles through the tell of a cold away, but he knows that he is turkey' ngen, It would have hot alone in his new world and
his new life.
kliked me.
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"But now I wanted a cure so badly that I leapt at the chance
—
Eric Sewell
SKINNY?
Amazing
NEW
WATE-ON
SAFE EASY WAY
PUTS ON QUICKLY
POUNDS and INOHES
of FIRM SOLID FLESH on
SCRAWNY FIGURES
TRY WONDERFUL
NEW
MONDBERIZED ENVISION
WATE-ON
AT ALL DRUG & BIZT. STORES
SOLE ABENTS:
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., LTD.
Certainly he has been labelled "the poor man's Hemingway."
sizable dents in
my
"hudi Anished 针 year ago," said Ruark. I gave it to body work gave me my wife, who's a fairly shrewd his apologies and also judge. She read it and told
his me: Your hero is a
His windy
particulars. business card said that he was the managing director of a company which makes and repairs motor bodies. He said it was an accident and assured
showed it to my agent, who said: "I think you've got on draft for a novel which you may have Intended,
elaborate
to write
"rend the damn thing myself But he has the disarming and I knew they were right. capacity to make fun of So I chucked it away and
suspect himself, and
started right in again from invented the label himself,
Certainly like Hemingway he's
he
scratch,
me he wasn't promoting business Being a trusting fellow
But he is not A COMPLAINT on occasions, I believed
A man's man over aggressive in his maleness, Let's call him a mun whe is normal (or as nour the norm as any man gets these days),
***m WOTH out. I fvet like a chewed-up tropard kill, He pursues masculine actvi- but the book's good now-or as ties like big-game biting. good as I can make it. So it'a But he now refuses to kill when been worth it. But I'll never
forget the day I decided
he
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him.
No proposal
XTRACT
of conversalien Pa with Amerlea's Betty O'Neil, who now about £200
he's on salari and Interested in the African human wasted two years, and I'd have animal as well.
to start again. It was one of week as cabaret star at
His best-seller "Something of the toughest decisions I've ever Value," which had a Mau Mau bod to make. background, we written after exhaustive research in Kenya.
CHEWED UP
"I bad to
down а tura 60,000-dollar advance from the publisher piva 120,000 dollars which I'd been offered for the paper back rights."
Since then he has made The decision would have been several more long visits to Africa much tougher but for the fact and he is now more of an expect that "Poor No More" is
London's Colony Restaurant, who is highly attractive, talented, under 30 "and sill a spinster."
Gourlag: Why haven't you married?.
O'Neil: Are you proposing?
would it Gourlay: 1 wouldn't make me a bigamist.
-(London Express Sørvice.).
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COMING
“AT LAST, MIK, AMERICA HAS DISCOVERED US....
TICKER
it
U.S.
TWINING-UGED TO GETTING HIS OWN WAY
Take a
look at this man
It could be he's
world's
playing the
riskiest game...
by ROSS MARK
Washington.
SOMETIME soon, possibly as you read this, another American jet-prop air freighter will go screaming into Berlin at a height the Russians don't like. The U.S. Government expects that a detail of Red swept- wing MIG fighters will try to force it down below 10,000 ft. But those American air freighters are going to keep on going in. This I am assured by a man in the American Government who knows,
And, like other responsible people in Washington, this man knows that the horrendous possibility of wer is being pushed to a razor-edgo balance, If the Russians shoot down one of the lumbering blg Her- cutes freighters there could be a war flashpoint.
to fly into Berlin at chose, any height it establishing a path for the Hercules and other high-efficiency planes,
down a bomber with General Twining and 14 others aboard. For elx days they were adrift In a rubber-like craft in tho coral sea,
Food was low when two alba- Remember what happened? trosses swept down over the Flying at 25,000ft, on March 27, raft. Whipping out a pistol, Lockheed Hercules was General Twining blew. bath General Twining joined his men in cat- ing the birds raw.
The strain buzzed repeatedly by Soviel birds out of Us Alr
Meanwhile, the strain on rec Titions at the core of the Western Alliance-Britain · and the U.S.is building up alarm Ingly.
These flights are now high American policy. Unless President Elsen- hower intervenes, there will be another high altitude flight soon. Who is the man who sold the American Government on this diccy, dangerous policy? His name 19 Nathan Farragut Twining,
Buzzed
He is an Air Force general,
the first-ever to be chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, und he is as handsome an edition of : an airman as Hollywood could aver contrive,
Digging into the background of America's grave decision for the showdown fights Into Berlin, I find that General Twining is the father of this particular brainchild.
fighters.
Mr Selwyn Lloyd, In Wash- legion at the time to formulato policy for dealing with the Russians on Berlin, was flabber- gasted. This was no time to irritate the Russians by asseri ing n right that could bu demonstrated at a less sensitive
time.
Quite so, then Acting Secre- tary of Stato Christian. Iferter 'sald. But Nathan Farragut Twining, a man used to getting. his own way, went to work.
In the end he won President Eisenhower's backing for his policy of demonstrating the right NOW.
In
7
His job
Assigned
Washington. General Twining learned the ins and outs of getting his way with
Government leaders.
· A thatch of thick, sil- ver half, and a rakish "I like you" smile are two of his tools, of trade. Ike thinks he is one of the smartest men in uniform.
:
He was made chairman of tho ta give added prestige and influence in the gational spending to air power, counchs of both strategy and
the State Department Joint chiefs today I found that Twining's views had become firm policy.
An officiat I talked to growled: "What do you want us to do? Lie dat on our backs and let the Russians run over us?”
Symbols
His job: to make sure that America matches the Soviet Union in the als and in space with military power.
General Twining, In every sense of the word, has become an elder statesman for the alr force. Sitting in his big, green ofce-green to absorb the flash of a micleur explosion-General General Twining is the man Twining today has the whole who commanded the 20th Air might of the United States Early in March, backed by the Force in the Mariana Islands behind his flights into Berlin, commanders of the Marines, in the Pacifle during the Inst Three planes have already
alr. force, army, and navy, war. General Twining told President Eisenhower that America must 1. Hir
gono in. And; unless there is a change in polley othors will B-29 Super-Fortressés, follow, General Twining is start high-altitude flights into dropped the atomic bombs on living up to a tradition. Berlin,
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Ho, got his middle -hama He said that ós chairman of
becauius of bis father's tro- the joint chiefs he would have symbols, are interwoven in his Glasgow Farragut, the Union It has been said that, two-mendous admiration for David to use America's most efficient milliary career the albatross general in the Civil War, who Aircraft. If Russia blockaded Berlin.
This was the time to -assert the West's right
and Uur atom,NEMA
* bocaine, farned for his donant: The Albatross symbol derives Full speed shood and damn from an adventure in January the torpedoes 1943. A tropical- sioren-foróśdu verk
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