Ambition. In Atlantic City, three-year-old David Cavanaugh started an empty milk truck, crashed into a car, ricocheted into another, smacked into a house, got out unhurt, declared: "I want to be a milkman."
Firefly. Near Trinity Center, Calif., a grazing horse swished his tail at a fly, hit a low-hanging high-tension wire, set his tail ablaze, was electrocuted, started a 55-acre forest fire.
Preference. In Centralia, Ill., Jack and Mary Ann Sligar advertised in the Sentinel: "Wanted immediately—unfurnished apartment or house: man, wife, and daughter, 8, and dog. Will dispose of dog, but prefer to...