Miscellany, Jan. 3, 1955

On Schedule. In Bridgeport, Conn., Mrs. Margaret Dennis Warner, filing suit for her second divorce from husband George R. Warner, revealed that her charge of mental cruelty in the first divorce action had been right, after all, since her husband had started being cruel to her again the day after they were rewed.

Privation. In The Pas, Manitoba, Cree Indian Sam Umperville, 82, oldest resident on The Pas Reservation, looked about the room he was assigned to in St. Anthony's Hospital, then stalked unceremoniously out the front door, explaining testily, "There's no place to spit."

To Pay Paul. In The Hague, an appeal...

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