Dear Editors:

I must apologize for letting my subscription lapse. I didn't get drunk--I simply don't manage my financial affairs well at all. I wish I could tell you that I have been making amends all over the place--paying off old debts--but I can't. Yes, I have been paying off old debts, true enough, but also running up new ones. In a mistaken fit of economy I thought I would buy the Grapevine each month at the T.I.E. Club instead of paying for a first class wrapper to have it mailed in (since everyone on my block knows I don't drink any more and is dying to find out why, and I'm just mean enough not to let any of 'em know).