Miscellany, May 26, 1941

Protection. In Closter, N.J., after his birthday party, attended by a large number of police chiefs and detectives, Sheriff William R. Browne found someone had stolen two silver candlesticks, his birthday gift.

Disillusion. In Manhattan, a three-year survey of the sophomore psyche proved the average Columbia sophomore felt the reality of campus life compared unfavorably with the movie version.

Chair. In Pine Plains, N.Y., Fordham Botany Professor William J. Bonisteel, immune to ivy poisoning, reserved his favorite chair perpetually by ringing it 'round with a poison ivy patch.

Shrinkage. In a French town half in,...

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