Miscellany: Swank

Near Crawfordsville, Ind., Lawrence Swank accelerated his automobile, sped up the road, fearing that someone was shooting at him when a missile tore through the hood of his car. The missile: a 2½ in. meteorite.

Pop At Brooklyn, N. Y., Jacob Steinger, 62, was napping in his son's office when a bandit entered, robbed Son Louis, a doctor, of $71. "Watch out, pop!" shouted Son Louis. Father Jacob awoke, jumped on the bandit, sunk his teeth into the bandit's gun hand, received a bullet in his shoulder. The bandit shrieked, dropped his...

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