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...crass, it's best to reserve bottle gifts for people like your boss, your roommates or the police man who let you off the hook when you were doing 75 down Main Street this Thanksgiving. Of course, there's no reason not to give yourself a little flagon of cheer this Christmas. After what you spend on gifts it'll be about the only affordable thing left
What made the cheer possible was a bitter struggle in the state legislature that gave local jurisdictions the right to legalize the sale of liquor by the drink. Before, North Carolinians were limited to beer, wine or whatever hard liquor they chose to "brown bag" (carry with them) when they went out on the town. With North Carolina's shift to local option, there are now only two states where sales of drinks at public places are banned outright. One is Oklahoma, where the temperance law is widely ignored. The other is Kansas, which ran into legal difficulties with...
...gifts. Among the most unusual was a front-page column devoted to Charles in the London Sunday Times. Because the prince had once complained that newspapers tend to dwell on things that go wrong, the Times printed nothing but the week's good news. Among the tidings of cheer: 92% of first-class mail was delivered on time, and no banks collapsed. "P.S." added the Times. "The death rate from suicide is going down...
Though someone suggested that we go find a radio and listen to the Harvard-Yale football game (apparently it was being played just then), we opted instead for Blutarsky's sage advice, and drank heavily. Every now and again a flash of red or white would elicit a cheer from one side or the other--moments later the scoreboard would satisfy any curiosity that remained, and we groundlings would join in the fun. A delayed reaction, to be sure, but spirited all the same. And yet how marvelous a thing it would have been to have watched Harvard play Yale...
...most of all there will be Polillio and Brown and Clark and Kross and MacLeod and the rest; and what the hell, let's say a cheer for Spagnola and Crowley and that gang. It will be the last time any of us gets to see number 22 and number 1 and the others, and for me at least, that is very...