Miscellany, Mar. 30, 1953

Heavy-Fingered. In Walla Walla, Wash., someone broke into A. Wylie's monument display room, stole two tombstones.

Reputation at Stake. In Indianapolis, the worried manager of the Essex House called an electrician to come quickly and replace the burned-out first two letters of its big neon sign.

Around the Clock. In Hyattsville, Md., 83-year-old J. A. Dobson was arrested for drunken driving after he slammed his automobile into a pole in broad daylight and bayed at a policeman: "This is my night to howl."

Young Love. In Ahmadabad, India, police stopped a marriage contract ceremony in a nearby village, told the parents of the...

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