To the Life. At Fort Devens, Mass., USO Actor Ray Rand, who played the role of a measles victim, found he had measles.

Cops. In Buffalo, Joseph Swiatek and Alexander Sarnowski went to jail for stealing a coat from Harold Gebhardt, who recognized it when they tried to sell it to him.

Mournful Number. In South Bend, Ind., on Feb. 6, Mrs. Mildred Six, mother of six, divorced Six, serving a six-month sentence after six arrests for nonsupport.

Lesson. In Oakland, Calif., a 15-year-old correspondence school student: (how to be a detective) gave himself up to detectives, confessed staging two unsuccessful holdups to get money to pay for his lessons.

Texas Cavalier. In Austin, State Representative Joseph Humphrey, pained to learn that soldiers had been waking a pretty county clerk at all hours of the night to get marriage licenses, introduced a bill forbidding the issuance of licenses between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.

There! In Syracuse, N.Y., the Petro Woycieszyns and ten relatives had their surname legally changed to Woyciesjes.

The New Disorder. In Detroit, a divorce was awarded to Mrs. Gordon Radzewski, refugee from Germany. She testified that life in Berlin had unfitted her husband for democratic freedom, which made him irresponsible.

Civic Pride. In bomb-pocked Chungking, police were inspired by the ninth anniversary of the New Life Movement to enforce a few neglected laws, among them a prohibition against throwing fruit peels on the ground, a requirement that all carriage ponies get a biweekly haircut and manicure.

Back to Rations. In Drumheller, Alberta, miners gave up their strike for free cups of coffee on cold days.

Great Expectations. In Kansas City, Mrs. S. L. Wilson hung on to her nerves, after four tries, four premature faints, finally saw her soldier son in a newsreel.

Nudge. In Brazil's Amazon Valley, rubber gatherers got priorities on a new supply of 1,500,000 fish hooks, result of their telegram to U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery: "No fish hooks, no fish; no fish, no eat; no eat, no rubber."

Law's Majesty. In Boston, Judge Paul Swift of Barnstable asked the State legislature for a raise, explained that he was embarrassed whenever he had to give the courthouse janitor an order, because the janitor earned more than he did.

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