Ham on Wry

IT WAS FUNNY THEN: The Grapevine avoids outside issues, but the editors of the 1940s--before the Twelve Traditions were adopted--were under no such constraints. Thus, the "Barley Corn" column in February 1946 quipped: "The current crop of recruits in Washington, D.C. is said to be coming in suffering from delirium Trumans."