Miscellany, Nov. 10, 1952

Dark Victory. In Detroit, high-school Football Player Alex Jones knocked himself out crashing head first into a steel post, later groggily explained: "I run faster with my eyes shut."

The Vienna Woods. In Vienna, police urged the city council to modernize the lighting system of the city parks, as "dangers to security and refuges for criminals," but the council refused, on the grounds that Vienna woodlands are "idyllic islands of romance and seclusion."

On Call. In Brooklyn, Stanley Cohen told police he received a phone tip that his hardware store was being robbed, rushed down...

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