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...album in the field for years. He learned to play the fiddle so he could revive the "Western Swing" of an old group called Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. He recently released something with a strong "honky-tonk" influence. All these albums are tarnished only by Haggard's habit of throwing in embarassing bits of wistful prose as "tributes" to whomever he is honoring...
...pretty good about letting us use his back yard for a gridiron--except for the pumpkins. He was always worried about his pumpkin patch, or rather, that we had a nasty habit of running through it on long fly patterns...
What is your habit of intercourse? Do you always have a venereal orgasm...
...with a cure of his own. After concocting a combination of wheat, molasses and bran as a healthful coffee substitute, Postpatented his recipe, dubbed the mixture Postum, and launched one of the first advertising campaigns for a prepared food. One ad exhorted: "Is your yellow streak the coffee habit? Does it reduce your working force, kill your energy, push you into the big crowd of mongrels, deaden what thoroughbred blood you may have, and neutralize all your efforts to make money and fame...
...Arizona action and the British poster may help protect non-smokers from cigarette pollution. But if the experience of Columnist Joseph Alsop is any indication, neither is likely to have much impact on those now addicted to nicotine. Alsop, who is struggling to kick a four-pack-a-day habit, wrote earlier this month that matters requiring calculation, learning and judgment became "inordinately difficult or downright impossible" without the comfort of tobacco. Scores of readers wrote to tell him that they, too, suffered from what Alsop called the "incompetence syndrome," and were unable to do almost everything from working...