Miscellany, may 24, 1954

Calumny. In Adams, Wis., the Adams County Times carried this personal notice: "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Stop the evil gossip that I used a butcher knife on my husband, Walter. It is not so . . . Mrs. Walter Buchanan."

Wounded in Action. In Korea, Army Corporal Gib Landell tossed off a smart salute at a passing officer, threw his back out of joint, had to be evacuated to a field hospital.

Native Custom. In Tulsa, suing for divorce. Turkish-born Ayse Sebahat Southerland complained that her husband Louis kissed another woman in her...

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