Fish. In Kansas City, Mo., Chester Seiglar was exempted from jury duty be cause all he could think about was fishing.

In Panama, Ceferino de Gracia tried to scoop fish from a creek, choked to death when a fish jumped down his throat.

Cast. At Pyramid Lake, Nev., Fisherman Willie Williams saved a drowning man by making a 70-ft. cast, hauling him to shore.

Surplus. In a San Francisco hospital, blonde Mrs. James W. Chesnut and blonde Mrs. James W. Chesnutt, strangers, had babies within an hour of each other.

Weight of the infants: eight Ib. each.

Fame. Voted handsomest male at Long Island University was one Robert Taylor of Rahway, N.J. Voted most athletic and energetic engineer at Columbia was one Robert Taylor of Philadelphia.

You Can't Miss It. In Boston, a motorist followed a stranger's directions, wound up driving in a subway tunnel.

Aid. In Mexico, Mo., passing motorists pulled an injured man from a wrecked car, carefully laid him in a bed of poison ivy.

Thoughtfulness. On maneuvers in the Tennessee war games, Lieut. Benjamin Gutow got a jigsaw letter from his wife.

Assembled after an hour's labor, it read: "Don't work too hard. " Billet-Doux. In Chicago, friends of Draftee Gerald Callahand wrote him the long letter he had asked for. It measured 340 feet.

Progress. In Manhattan, a department store advertised "Corsets to Match your Suntan." In Washington, a patent was awarded for a bathing cap that looks like a wig.

Salesman. In Philadelphia, the Better Business Bureau hunted an elusive peddler who sold tired lawnmower-pushers seed for strictly "two-inch grass." Research. At Troy, N.Y., an experimenting biologist proved to his own satisfaction that the larger a goldfish's eyes, the less it sees.

Ambition. In Spartanburg, S.C., a Venezuelan Boy Scout neared the end of an 18,000-mile hike, said he planned to take a plane home.

Oops. In the woods near London, Ky., police seized a liquor still, learned later it was a historical park exhibit.

Romanticist. In France, L'Illustration suggested that food would not seem so short if everybody used dolls' plates.

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