¶ Struck dumb in 1943 by an emotional disorder, Emilio Franco, a 35-year-old coal miner, took a ride on a Coney Island roller coaster, began screaming on the second dip. Back on solid ground, his first coherent words in five years were: "I feel sick."
¶ Bartenders, a notably abstemious race, are drinking more than they used to. The Keeley ("Drunkenness Is a Disease") Institute reported that the number of bartenders treated had risen from three in 1940 to 28 last year. Said Director James H. Oughton Jr.: "Perhaps it is . . . the chaotic condition of world politics and...
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