Miscellany, Jul. 8, 1957

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Overlap. In Miami Beach, bewildered Marshall Frey, 10, who had two stitches taken in his leg after he rammed his bike into a parked car, explained to a policeman that he was riding along, peacefully reading his comic book, when . . .

All's Well. In Baytown, Texas, Attorney Sam R. Fisher, trying to persuade the city council to put off annexing part of a land tract, argued: "I don't know what you could possibly want with all that land. It hasn't anything on it except a few old dirty oil wells."

Lodestone. In Milwaukee, George C. Faust, 51, homeless and unable hold a job since leaving prison last September after a two-year burglary rap, broke a gas station window, stole nothing but called police and asked to be arrested for burglary, told the judge, who noted the penalty was one to ten years, "I'll take ten," got 2½ arrived at the state prison in Waupun in time for supper.

Silent Service. In Muncie, Ind., Leslie Anderson, 37, was fined $14 and costs after he walked up to his estranged wife on their wedding anniversary and, without a word, gave her a black eye.

Mother of Invention. In Chelmsford, England, a group of eleven-year-olds, examined on the word "luxury" but given only the definition "something pleasing to have, but not a necessity," produced several answers, including "brain," "bath," "kiss," "virtue," "wife."

Watershed. In Hartford, Conn., weathermen of the Connecticut Valley branch of the American Meteorological Society, rained out in 1955, announced that they had reserved for their annual picnic an "area with indoor facilities."

Enfilade. In Milwaukee, Ulysses Simon, charged with attempting to kill a woman he shot in the back, was let off with a $100 fine and a year's probation for negligent use of a weapon, when the woman testified he fired not at her but at a nearby cuckoo clock.

All God's Voters. On the island of Sardinia, politicians, protesting "foul" electioneering in a vote on the island, accused their rivals of giving out right-foot shoes with a promise of matching left ones 'in case of victory at the polls.

Unprofaned. In Mount Prospect, 111., officials of the Arnar-Stone Laboratories, producing drugs, looked again, decided to change the label on a recent product to Polygesic, from Damital.

For a Start. In London, the New Statesman & Nation printed an ad: "Feeling fogbound? Stand at your window with a glass of Duff Gordon's El Cid Sherry. Watch the mist turn rosy."