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April 1966

Once Over Lightly

Sense and nonsense on the road to recovery

THIS ONE comes from farther west and south, and dishes up a startling fact--which will be of no earthly use we can think of. Some hill boys were transporting what amounted to a tank car full of gin to the market when the hated Revenooers swept down on them. The government boys made 'em pour every last bottle of gin into a convenient (and tiny) frog pond. The result was that the pond was half booze--and a million bombed frogs. Right there it was proved conclusively that drunk frogs jump twice as high as sober ones--make out of it what you can.

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