Miscellany, Oct. 13, 1958

Frozen Beef. In Sacramento, Calif., Loretta Weyant was granted a divorce on her testimony that after an argument, her husband had hung her from a meat hook in her restaurant's cold-storage room for two hours.

Heil to Pay. In West Hartford, Conn., Kenneth B. Johnson paid a $2 fine for illegal overnight parking, drew an additional $50 fine for making out his check to the "West Hartford Police Gestapo."

Winer Take All. In Rouen, France, Factory Worker Andre Poultier bet his friends that he could down 30 glasses of Pernod in ten minutes, did so,...

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