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June 1974

Once Over Lightly

Sense and nonsense on the road to recovery

WE'RE TOLD the following is true, but we won't vouch for it. Anyway, it seems that a man had forgotten his promise to take his wife to a very mod play that evening, and had gotten himself thoroughly bombed after work. He arrived home too late for dinner, and his spouse promptly dragged him off to the theater. Some time before the curtain rose, he became deathly ill, went looking for a rest room, and had great difficulty finding one. At last he came upon one that, oddly, had one wall missing. But he heaved his cookies in the proper plumbing and went back to his seat. "Did I miss much?" he asked his wife.

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