Miscellany, Mar. 10, 1947

School of Experience. In Los Angeles, truant officers checking Santa Anita race track found no truant schoolchildren, but flushed bigger game: a hookey-playing Pasadena principal.

Hasty Hearts. In Springfield, Mo., after a 30-year courtship, Roy Saltsgraver at last got a yes, married Anna Wickersham across the state line in Arkansas to avoid Missouri's three-day-wait law.

Just Us Hens. In Manhattan, two men charged with burglarizing a store protested that they were workingmen, had been hired to do the job at 75¢ an hour.

Investment. In Rio de Janeiro, Paulo Quadros responded to a hospital's...

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