Miscellany, Mar. 21, 1960

Milky Way. In Brooklyn, Milkman Pleasant Booker admitted a series of early morning burglaries, insisted that he never robbed a customer.

Research. In Pullman, Wash., the librarian of Washington State University reported the theft of Cheating—How It Can Be Stopped.

Bushwhacked. In Canberra, Australia, a delegation of aborigines complained to the government that plastic, made-in-Japan boomerangs were cutting off their livelihood.

Voting Residence. In San Antonio, when Marie Barnhill, 46, was booked for drunkenness for the 240th time since 1940, police discovered that her only known address was "County Jail."

Understaffed. In Tulsa, Okla., Paper Boy Leon Stagg was told to put the police...

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