Toeing the Mark. In Somerville, Mass., Judge Nyman Kolodny fined a 40-year-old laborer $15 for drunkenness despite his protest: "It's my new shoes. They hurt so much I couldn't walk straight."
Scoreboard. In Glendale, Calif., nabbed when he tried to rob a liquor store, Dan Walsh, 40, handed police his pistol, boasted that each of the eight notches in the handle represented a successful robbery.
Psychosomatic. In Bridgeport, Conn., suing for divorce, John C. Maffucci said his wife Clarice had repeatedly informed him that her one aim was to make his life so miserable that...
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