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April 1981

Once Over Lightly

Sense and nonsense on the road to recovery

STILL WITH THE NUMBERS GAME: T. S. of Ontario tells of a man who walked unsteadily into a saloon one day way back in the dark ages, and announced loudly, "I've got three unmarried daughters, all of them ugly. I'll pay $10,000 to anyone who'll marry my twenty-year-old, $15,000 for a husband for my thirty-year-old girl, and twenty grand to a taker for my forty-year-old, who is skinny and has lost her teeth."

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