Miscellany, Feb. 6, 1956

Desert Song. In Milwaukee, Mrs. Marjorie Pattengale, suing for divorce, charged that her husband upset her by his continual singing of the same song: I Wish I Were Single Again.

A Word to the Audience. In London, Cambridge Archaeologist Dr. Glyn Daniel, 41, took his place as M.C. on a TV quiz show, studied the sheaf of poisoned arrows he was asking a panel of experts to identify, remarked moodily: "I should like to kill a few million people, and most of them would be viewers."

The Defense Rests. In Chicago, when police questioned him about the attempted robbery of a warehouse, Edward...

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