Miscellany, Jan. 15, 1945

Choice Cut. In Manhattan, meat-hungry gourmets were offered, after an accident at an upstate game reserve that incapacitated the animal for zoo purposes, a limited supply of llama steak.

Whistle Stop. In Wales, when the war time ban on railway-station signs was removed, a stationmaster restored his town's 30-foot long sign: Llanfairpwllgwyngo-gerychrynbwllllandysiliogogogoch.

A Room with a View. In Washington, U.S. Public Health Service officers pondered the request of a law-abiding house wife, living smack on the Vermont-Canadian border, to import her 24-year-old parrot from her cramped Canadian kitchen to her spacious U.S. living room,...

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