Different

In Chicago, because he was ''fed up on blondes, redheads and brunettes and wanted something different," Frank Polhamius, 28, applied for a license to marry Nadine Snow, 24, whose hair is bluish, and produced an agreement signed by her not to dye her hair for at least two years or until their first child is born.

Prayer

In Independence, Kans., police jailed Mrs. Dora Boegler, 79, for a sanity hearing. When Ablino Oley, 14, called her 91-year-old husband Jake a hunchback a year ago, Mrs. Boegler wrote Mrs. Oley, "Tonight I will pray to God to cause your boy to suffer great agony. I'll ask God to burn him with fever and lay the hand of death upon him." Ablino died. When Mrs. Will Ray cut off the Boeglers' cream supply, Mrs. Boegler wrote her, "I will pray for your hogs to get sick and die." The hogs died. Mrs. Boegler warned Mrs. Ray that she and her husband would get sick. Mr. Ray nearly died, of no apparent disease; Mrs. Ray last week, weak with anemia, said, "Mrs. Boeglers prayers don't get out of the sound of her voice."

To demands that Mrs. Boegler be prosecuted, County Attorney Richard L. Becker said, "I cannot see that any laws are violated by these notes, and besides against such a person able to sway the divine will what could a mere mortal county attorney do?"

Funeral

In Chicago's suburb Palos Park, Mrs. Florence Zeller gave her dead ring-tailed monkey, Monty, a $35 embalming, a white plush coffin and a fine funeral with four small children as pallbearers. To an assemblage of neighborhood children, two live monkeys, a bulldog and a cat, Mrs. Zeller's daughter-in-law read the 23rd Psalm. Absent was Mr. Zeller.

Material

In Los Angeles, Golda Draper, unpublished novelist who had taken a job as a waitress to get material, gave Donald Rothrock such bad service that he shot her in the stomach.

Mind

As a truck and trailer of the Gorman Brothers circus rounded a corner in East Orange, N. J., the trailer's cargo, Jap, 50, a gentle, little, four-ton cow elephant, slightly shifted weight. The trailer capsized on Jap, cutting her ear, forelegs and flank. After a few giant trumpetings she lay silently, glowering reproachfully at her keeper, Joseph Zweark. Finally Jap rose, righting the trailer, but she refused to re-enter it. Keeper Zweark subtly led her around the block, casually up to the trailer. Jap sidled off. After two days of wheedling Jap, Keeper Zweark said, "She's made up her mind about trailers," led her on foot the 25 mi. to her quarters in Pompton Lakes, N. J.

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