"Pinster, Dear Pinster, Come Home With Me Now," Say I

Alchemy--changing quarters into nickels--will cease in Harvard Square pinball emporiums after Saturday. The bluestockings of Cambridge polities have scored again: no more free games, boys. In fact, no more pinball.

Beginning April 1, the hunched figure, murmuring "bound hands," "pin cheat," and keeping his score in "thous" will be a thing of the past.

And though the pinsters have already begun to turn from the blinking lights to the tossing penny, there'll be no more free games. Thus spake the powers that be, and all's quiet on the Bow Street front. Somebody's tilted.