Miscellany, Jun. 20, 1955

Theme & Variation. In Washington, newsmen were barred from the Government information officials' luncheon at which Commerce Department Information Director Albert Leman delivered a speech entitled "Mum's Not the Word—a New Look at Public Information."

Switch Hitter. In El Centro, Calif., after her first class in defense tactics at the Women's Group of the Imperial County Sheriff's Reserve, Mrs. Ruby Solomon went home and woke husband Ben, told him to swing at her, got a lusty clout on the side of the head, remembered too late that she and the other ladies had been defending against right-hand blows and that Ben was...

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