Esther Williams, Cary Grant and LOT 49

[Werner Presber]

„Miss Williams tried therapy, but says she gave up when two  
successive psychiatrists sat gaga before a movie star. In 1959, her  
career at a seeming end and her second marriage over, she did try LSD  
under the direction of Cary Grant's psychiatrist, and had a  
hallucinatory experience in which she envisioned herself in the body  
of her older brother Stanton, a child movie actor who had died years  
earlier as a teen-ager, and whose mantle she realized she had  
assumed. She begins her book with an account of the trip.“



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„I underwent a series of controlled experiments with Lysergic Acid, a  
hallucinogenic chemical or drug known as LSD 25. Experiment is  
perhaps a misleading word; to most people it signifies patronization  
and objectivity. For my part I anxiously awaited their personal  
benefits that could be derived from the experiences, and was quite  
willing to be less than objective. Any man who experiments with  
something that cannot benefit himself, or add to his happiness, and  
that of his fellow man in turn, is a fool and a menace to society.  
I’ve heard that a man here and there died during LSD25 sessions; but  
then I’ve heard that men died during poker games and while watching  
horse racing; but that didn’t seem to stop such occupations. Those  
men might have died anywhere while doing anything. Men have also died  
testing airplanes and parachutes, vaccines and common cold cures. In  
attempting to traverse the next step into progress and knowledge, men  
have always died. But there is a difference between the man who knows  
what he’s about with a high-powered airplane, and an idiot who puts  
wings on a bicycle and takes off from the edge of Niagra Falls.“

ARCHIE LEACH
by
Cary Grant


Chapter Fourteen
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