Points of View

Dear Grapevine: . . .to puff and flatter alcoholics by saying that they laugh 'at ghoulish memories over which weaker souls would cringe' is to do them a disservice. . . . We are not stronger souls than others; we aren't grubs who have blossomed into beautiful personalities soaring on our 'butterfly wings'; we are no more sensitive and imaginative than countless non-alcoholics. We are simply ill people--some of us bores, some of us interesting, some stupid, some intelligent, some nice drunks, some lousy drunks--all in all, a cross-section of the population which has dried up. . . . Mr. Oursler paints us as we are not.