Animal Kingdom. In Boise, Idaho, Mrs. Lee Berry took two dozen baby chicks into her house to keep them warm, thereby exhausted her pointer, Sandy, who stood with nose and tail extended and one forefoot raised for four hours. In Atlantic City, Clifford H. Lee got his German shepherd back from Dogs for Defense, which had given up trying to make Fritz bite the enemy. In Chicago, Joseph Bosnyak, whose wife liked cats, got a divorce after he had testified: "I ate with cats. I slept with cats. ... It was nothing for me to wake up ... and find a cat's tail around my neck."

Sharp Practice. In San Francisco, Collector of Internal Revenue Harold A. Berliner solved a shortage of pins in his office by asking all taxpayers to pin their checks to their statements.

Forecaster. In Tecumseh, Okla., Dr. U.S. Cordell, long an expert at forecasting the day of people's deaths, forecast his own, missed it by a day.

Jersey Life. In Jersey City, Mrs. Michael Fitzgerald locked up her fifth-floor apartment before going to bed, left her husband in the kitchen with a bottle. She woke later to a pounding on the door, found it was Mike. Said he: "Fell out of the kitchen window." He explained that he had encountered cradling clotheslines at the fourth, third, and second stories, and concluded: "Never missed a one."

Military Millinery. In Darkest Africa, the trend in witch-doctor millinery was to the modern warfare motif (see cut).

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