{"id":6953,"date":"2016-03-03T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=6953"},"modified":"2016-03-02T15:12:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T20:12:53","slug":"benzedrine-for-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2016\/03\/03\/benzedrine-for-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Benzedrine for Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Benzedrine for Breakfast<\/em> is the autobiography of Noreen Price, who lived quite an unconventional life. \u00a0Born in South Africa by accident because\u00a0her Dutch mother missed the boat while visiting relatives there. \u00a0Noreen was schooled in a French convent and spent time in several different countries while growing up. \u00a0Raised as a debutante in the 1930s she briefly dabbled in modeling and after two marriages, lots of champagne, mink coats, and caviar her life took a\u00a0turn that most would not expect when she became a smuggler.<\/div>\n
\"Img0014\"<\/a>\u00a0At loose ends after her second marriage ended she met a man named Johnny and\u00a0began to smuggle cigarettes from Tangier into Spain at a decent profit. \u00a0With her daring methods her organization was soon operating out of North Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, and even into England. \u00a0Eventually Noreen was caught and sentenced to a year of prison in the Holloway Jail as well as a thousand pound fine. \u00a0Her description of her time in prison is filled with stories of her trying to exploit the system, descriptions of how dull it was on the inside, and her attempts to get back in the smuggling game in prison.\u00a0 The writing style is very entertaining and you can see from the captions that accompany her photos that she had a droll sense of humor.<\/div>\n
To learn more about her exploits you can find\u00a0Benzedrine for breakfast<\/a> \/ Noreen Price and Peter Jackson. London : Robert Hale Limited, [1963] in Widener’s collection.<\/div>\n
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Thanks to Alison Harris, Santo Domingo Project for contributing this post.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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