Miscellany, Mar. 16, 1959

Sinner Spring. In Greymouth, New Zealand, police searched two weeks for Escaped Prisoner John David Buckeridge, finally pulled back the covers on a neatly made bed in his mother's home, found Buckeridge stuffed inside the mattress with only his head sticking out.

Parliament of Fowls. In Pleasant Hill, Calif., young Leslie Hylin wrote to the state Conservation Council: "Dear Sir, I would like to know if there are any pamphlets you could give me on wildlife in our government."

onsense. In West Lebanon, Ind., the editors of the Gazette tried to explain a number of recent typographical errors in its pages, said...

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