Miscellany, Feb. 9, 1959

Crocks of Granite. In Detroit, while fire blazed in the kitchen of Frank Collins' Bar, while the building filled with smoke, while firemen dragged hoses through the barroom and water sloshed on the floor, seven steady customers refused to budge from their bar stools.

Signal Check. In Baton Rouge, La., Police Desk Sergeant M. K. Gunby answered a phone call from a lost tourist, who said: "I'm at the corner of Walk and Don't Walk."

Hive Bound. In Columbia, S.C.. Representative Lloyd Bell introduced a bill in the state legislature that would protect citizens from "Yankee bees," said they escape occasionally from out-of-state...

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