Miscellany, Mar. 28, 1960

Sound Training. In Taipei, Formosa, a district court sentenced Shen Lin-hsiang, 42, to 2½ years in jail for biting off part of her stepdaughter's ear to teach the girl "her place in the family."

Overhaul. In Long Beach, Calif., Jerome Colwell complained to police that a thief had stripped accessories from his car, which had been parked in one spot for two months while he was in jail for car stripping.

The Shape of the Thing. In Buffalo, John Baldyga escaped with a 60-day suspended sentence after he admitted in court that he had thrown a bowling ball through the window of a...

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