Miscellany, Dec. 9, 1957

Final Score. In Milwaukee, investigating the hanging of a 51-year-old man, Assistant Medical Examiner Joseph Damiani found the shortest husband-to-wife suicide note in the city's police history: "You won."

Retirement Plan. In Brussels, Jean-Louis Damon, 27, serving six months for robbery, got ten months more after he sent threatening letters from jail to his holdup victims, ordered them to deposit money in his savings account.

Tenderfoot. In Keelung, Formosa, customs officials noted Sailor Pien Ching-an mincing along in a most unseamanlike manner, stopped him, found carefully packed into his padded felt shoes 30 watches...

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