Miscellany, Jun. 6, 1949

Change of Heart. In Knoxville, Term., Alice Emert Wells, married ten times before, returned marriage license No. 11 to he county clerk's office with an explanation: "I got cold feet." In Nashville, Deputy Clerk Jimmy O'Connell reported that a man turned in his marriage license, took the refund and bought a license to marry another woman.

If I Had the Wings ... In Niagara Falls, the Bell Aircraft Corp. received a letter from an inmate of an Illinois state penitentiary: "How long a warm-up is needed [for a helicopter]? What is the down payment...

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