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January 1965

The Anecdote Bin

Dedicated to the lighter side of our common problem

AND apparently a lot of the beer represented in the WCTU figure doesn't actually go down the old hatch. According to Norton Mockridge in the N. Y. World Telegram & Sun, a friend of his who had consumed nothing but Scotch for years sorrowfully told him he had turned to beer. "I've had to," said the friend. "My wife and my daughters have started to use beer for setting their hair. They use only a little bit from each can, and I drink the rest so's not to waste it."

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