Miscellany, Dec. 11, 1944

Going Down? In Chicago, a 3,000-lb. elephant named Judy, on her feet all day doing publicity for the book department, nervously refused to leave the third floor of the Marshall Field department store by the freight elevator which brought her, consented to depart five hours later down a special ramp built onto the fire stairs.

Home on the Range. In Kansas City, Mrs. Paul Fisher found the family radio out of order, the washing machine smashed, the carpet sweeper failing, sighed, "At least the ice box works." Her husband opened it and the door fell off.

No Sucker. In Salt Lake City, Sally...

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