Television was busy last week with scalpel and sedative, and viewers had a vicarious whirl through the agonies of d.t.s, the miseries of migraine and the horrors of infanticide. On NBC's March of Medicine, Announcer Ben Grauer introduced the subject of alcoholism from a comfortable perch at Moriarty's bar on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue. His point: most of the bibbers in sight were capable of taking it or of leaving it alone.
Dazed & Damaged. The camera moved swiftly on for glimpses of drunken sots on Skid Row and a clinical study of alcoholics in Connecticut's Blue Hills sanatorium, ranging from the treatment...
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