Miscellany, May 10, 1943

Burned Up. In Toledo, Henry W. Piehl sued for divorce, complained that his wife burned up his clothes instead of washing them.

Models. In Roswell, N.M., President Dayton Talmage of the New Mexico Funeral Directors Association, who felt that OPA specifications for caskets made them too small, took a few OPA model caskets to a professional meeting, demonstrated his point by inducing his fellow undertakers and OPA officials to try them on for size.

Laid. In St. Donatus, Iowa, baffled Matt Thom drove to a garage to have his oddly acting lights fixed, lifted the...

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