Miscellany, may 4, 1953

Small Voice. In St. Louis, when police asked John Shannon whether he had broken a window of the Supreme Poultry & Fish Co. and stolen a duck, he retorted: "I don't know a thing about it," was contradicted by a loud quack from inside his shirt.

Sangfroid. In San Francisco, Edward Datche, resolutely keeping cool after crashing his automobile into one parked car and careening into another, nonchalantly lighted a cigarette, then flipped it into a pool of gasoline, which flamed and set fire to one of the three vehicles as well as two...

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