Lost & Found. Over Troy, Kans., Pilot H. K. Speed dropped his eyeglasses from a bomber; 6,000 feet below Mrs. Myral Wilmett picked them up in her yard, unbroken.

Clean Sweep. In Shutesbury, Mass., the Army at one swoop drafted the chairman of the Selectmen, the chairman of the Board of Public Welfare, the principal of the Center School, the chairman of the Board of Health, the director of old-age assistance, the chairman of the Civilian Defense Committee, the president of the Teachers Association, a trustee of the library, the library's janitor, the school department's janitor, the town identification officer, and a voters' registrar: all the same man, Henry Dihlman.

Provided. In Portland, Ore., the Navy received from a wife her written consent to her husband's enlistment. To the approved form she had added a rider: "It is further understood and agreed that he shall be well fed at all times, be well and sufficiently clothed, shall not be overworked, shall not be issued too much grog, and, finally, shall not be allowed to associate with dissolute characters."

Lean Years. In Chicago, the American Institute of Laundering issued a plea to diners to help reduce laundering wear & tear by leaning well over the plate.

Confusion. In Elkhart, Ind., Druggist Charles Judd, his mind on his simples, mailed a sack of letters in a bank's night depository, deposited a sack of money in a mailbox.

Code. In Seattle, police and U.S. agents tried and tried to decode the notations in an arrested woman's little black book: "K 1, P 2, CO 8, K 5 . . ." finally quizzed her, learned the meaning: "Knit one, purl two, cast on eight, knit five. . . ."

Tires. In Chicopee, Mass., U.S. Rubber Co. failed to win permission from the local rationing board to buy four new truck tires.

Sleepy. In Thomaston, Ga., John Meier headed for bed, twisted an electric bulb to put out the light, dropped the bulb, cut his hands, stepped on it, cut his feet, stooped to pick out the glass, blacked his eye on a chair.

Fake. In Lancaster, Pa., Marvin Stoy and Robert Jones, both ten, apprehended by police, admitted that they had stolen Blackstone the Magician's wand, had thrown it away because it didn't work.

Exhibit. In a Cambridge, Mass, court, Mrs. Gladys E. Miller, suing for divorce, offered as evidence a box full of her hair which she said her husband had pulled out of her head.

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