Miscellany, Jul. 12, 1943

Rationale. In Elberton, Ga., Judge C. B. Thornton asked a groom what bride's name he should write on the marriage license. Said the groom: "Leave that blank. . . . I heard that licenses were going to be rationed. . . . I'm courting two women and I don't know which one I'll get."

Trust-Brainers. In Washington, D.C., mice tried just as hard to get at the Department of Agriculture's dehydrated cheese as they did at the real thing.

Polo-Ebbetsian? In Washington, D.C., Private First Class John Larson had a blood transfusion, lived, almost immediately asked: "What if I have inside me...

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