Miscellany, Apr. 30, 1945

Situation Abnormal. In Manhattan, after ten weeks of challenge, fortune still smiled on the newly founded Snafu Fur Specialties Co.

Handy Man. In Buffalo, Arthur A.

Schwartz took a garbage pail, a frying pan, a length of stovepipe, an electric motor and two pulleys, put them all together, produced a rotary snowplow that could also mow a lawn.

What Goes On? On the western front, two Tibetans who had walked into Russia, been promptly drafted into the Red Army, then captured by the Germans, drafted into the German Army, and finally captured by Canadians, learned from a linguist for the first time in five...

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