Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Miscellany, Mar. 9, 1953
Premiére. In Lowell, Mass., Lightweight Neil King, making his boxing debut, hopped nimbly into the ring, tossed off his robe, discovered he had forgotten his trunks.
Bread & Butter Note. In Bloomington, Ind., a burglar who appeared worried lest his robbery of $5 from a grocery go unnoticed left a message for the proprietor: "I robbed U, bye."
Just My Bill. In Portland, Me., Mrs. Bina Evans, contesting her husband's divorce action, told the judge that after a family spat he "broke my teeth and my nose, tore my ear, broke my arm and some...
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