Modern Living: Empties Are Better

FRED AND CATHY BUSICK, Route 7, Box 18, Burlington, N.C. 27215. I have Bluejay, Robin, Woodpecker, Elks, Baseball, Las Vegas. I want Burmese Cat, 70 Exc., Tombstone, Amvets, Flower Basket, St. Louis Arch.

The advertisement appears concise and to the point. Only thing is: What point? Are the Busicks alerting a bookie to their late-starting favorites at Pimlico? Notifying fellow CIA agents of the terms of a prisoner-exchange operation? Not at all. The message appeared in the monthly publication of the National Jim Beam Bottle and Specialties Club; the Bluejay is a ceramic decanter,...

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