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March 1963

Was Casey an Alcoholic?

Can the English language be murdered? Was the author swizzled when he wrote this? Does anybody care? Try the giddy effects of Prof. Chace's new language, Anguish, made by using words that sound like other words.

Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;But there is no joy in Mudville--mighty Casey has struck out.Ernest Lawrence Thayer

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