Miscellany, Feb. 27, 1956

Have Tools; Will Travel. In Manhattan, the United Nations employees' newspaper quoted the appraisal of a personnel interviewer on a job applicant: "Definitely not to be considered; carried a dagger at waist; sloppy appearance; returned . . . carrying gun at waist."

Brand Name. In New Haven, Conn., Yale Graduate Student Edmund D. Looney petitioned the superior court for permission to change his name, claimed that it might interfere with the practice of his future profession—psychiatry.

Chef's Special. In Taipei, Formosa, after 40 soldiers came down with food poisoning, a Chinese Nationalist army spokesman...

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