Status Updates From L'empire de la douleur

Raymond Sackler’s grandkids calling him Poppy is so on the nose I actually had to laugh

In the throes of the red scare the FBI had been quietly investigating the Sackler brothers and had discovered evidence of Communist ties.

Arthur Sackler knew intuitively that the brand name of a company was a important as the name of the drug and he had promised to make Pfizer with its exotic silent P a household name.