Miscellany, Feb. 3, 1941

Joker. In Brooklyn, N. Y., Stanley Koprowski asked for a divorce because his wife insisted on telling him jokes in bed.

War Aim. In Canada, where villages like Swastika, Ont. have been taking patriotic names like Winston (for Churchill), the citizens of New Germany, Nova Scotia, declined to change. Said they: "That's just what there should be—a new Germany."

Object. In Fort Lupton, Colo., a round, 50-lb. object with which farm children had played daily for more than six years was discovered to be an unexploded aerial bomb in first-class working order.

Body. In...

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