Miscellany, Aug. 15, 1955

The High Heart. In Ferrara, Italy, Carlo Bonuzzi, 30, flew over the town in a small plane, showered it with multicolor leaflets which read: "Dear Friends and Citizens: By sending you greetings from this plane, I wish to demonstrate that even if I have been abandoned by my wife, I do not worry about it and keep on being amused."

The Children's Hour. In Chidlows, Australia, Police Constable Don Laurance, lecturing schoolchildren on the dangers of handling explosives left from World War II, was so persuasive that they revealed their private cache of two 25-lb. shells, several grenades, detonators, and 50...

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