[78-L] Drink any good records lately?^

[Julian Vein]

David Lennick wrote:
> This appeared on 88sOn78s.  dl
> 
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> 
> After some years at Chicago's WNIB, I was an announcer and producer
> at WFMT in Chicago for 35+ years after 1972. One of the WFMT
> announcer's responsibilities was to prepare, edit, and then read the
> newscasts scheduled for our shifts. Until the current management
> reduced WFMT's newscasts to little more than headlines, we had three
> wire sources for news. One was Reuters. In addition to their very
> thorough stories about "hard" news. Reuters periodically sent brief
> droll ones about quirky things. This story came over during one of my
> shifts. I love it. I didn't save the year, but I think it was the
> 1970s.
> 
>     "Drink
> 
>     "Shepton Mallet, England, July 2, Reuter --
> 
> A magistrate's court here was told today of the local destitutes' top
> drink -- boiled
> phonograph records.
> 
>     "Scotsman Thomas Duncan, 50, said the hit beverage was made by
> breaking up and boiling old 78 r.p.m. records.
> 
>     "Duncan was jailed for stealing two brass vases from a house where
> he went for water to dilute his favorite drink.
> 
>     "The police analyst in this town about 20 miles (22 kilometers)
> south of Bristol is to study Duncan's claims.
> 
>     "Reuter 1935"
> 
>     I brought the story home and framed it. It's on the wall of one of
> my rooms full of 78s.
> 
>     Don Tait
> _______________________________________________
Discusting!

      Julian Vein


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