Trilby at Work. In South Bend, Ind., Tribune Reporter Harry Schaudt apologized to his city editor for his scanty coverage of a Shrine dinner: he had volunteered as a subject for hypnosis, slept soundly through most of the affair.
Power Politics. In Pahokee, Fla., Mayor Lewis Friend explained how he happened to shoot his fellow hunter, Town Councilman D. W. Cunningham, who had selected a tree as a handy observation post: "I mistook his polka-dot shirt for a turkey gobbler."
Bourgeois Weakness. In Budapest, Hungary, after two factory nursery-school directors tried to buy chamber pots at a government store and were told that...
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