The Battle of Britain was won on benzedrine.’” He spoke about his opium experiments in London, Tahiti and Indochina. “You go to sleep and wake up feeling you’ve had a whole night’s rest.

Benzedrine was supposed to be the pep in the German Army’s pep pills (TIME, Sept. 14, 1942),* and is indubitably the drug that causes periodic tantrums among college deans when cramming students ...