Miscellany, Mar. 18, 1946

C.O.D.? In Stockholm, Sweden, stonecutters were still chipping away at a 1940 order: one victory monument for Adolf Hitler.

Kid Stuff. In Columbus, Ohio, Saloonkeeper Sam Barkan cheerfully opened up after hours to let a wide-eyed little girl use the phone, forked over $125 to her companions: two gunmen.

Oh. In Tokyo, red-faced Allied officers stammered that only medical and scientific volumes were referred to in an order to distribute books "of an erotic nature."

Compleat Angler. In Dallas, Aquarium Curator Pierre Fontaine almost popped an eye when a nattily dressed man strolled from his car to the aquarium lagoon, dropped a hand line,...

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