Miscellany, Dec. 29, 1958

A calendar of the triumphs, defeats and contortions of the human spirit during 1958:

JANUARY

Roving Assignment. In Salt Lake City, convicts publishing the Utah state prison newspaper abruptly changed the masthead listing of Escaped Editor Quay Kilburn from "Editor in Chief" to "Editor at Large."

FEBRUARY

High Proof. In San Bruno, Calif., police patrols stopped hundreds of cars to check drivers for intoxication, landed nary a drinker, found down the road a homemade sign reading: "Roadblock ahead. Lushes turn right."

MARCH

Donnybrook Estates. In Alexandria, La., six house wreckers showed up at the...

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