Zale Parry, Hollywood Diving Star and LSD Study Pioneer, Dies at 93

Zale Parry, who died at 93, lived a life that refused the boundaries most people accept without question — moving from the competitive diving boards of mid-century America to Hollywood screens to the controlled quiet of a laboratory where LSD was first being studied as a window into human consciousness. She was an athlete who became an actress, and an actress who became a research subject, at a moment when each of those identities carried its own kind of cultural weight. Her passing marks the end of a particular postwar American story: one in which celebrity, curiosity, and a willingness to st