The Anecdote Bin

TURNING to the educational aspects of this department, we encapsulate several intelligences from our nation's press. The first, from the N. Y. Times, reveals that Rutgers University Center of Alcohol Studies has accepted a grant from the U. S. Public Health Service to compile a dictionary of alcoholic terminology. It seems that on occasion a judge's reference to a defendant as a drunk might mean a jail sentence, but if the judge had termed him an alcoholic, he might have some medical treatment in mind. It will cost $20,302 to put this "Alcoholism Nomenclature and Classification Study" together--and to think that we've been urging you to help us with a collection of AA terminology for nothing!