Miscellany

Money Counts. In Los Angeles, 70-year-old Sanger E. French, married 50 years, finally got a divorce, explained that he would have done it 25 years before, but "it wasn't expedient from the standpoint of finance."

Trap-Clap. In Albany, the State Conservation Department awarded the State's animal-trapping championship to one Albert Fox.

At Home Abroad. Somewhere in the South Pacific, Medical Corps Major Robert Rosenthal spied a Jap knapsack, opened it, found a picture of his sister. It had been taken from a 1925 copy of the New Haven Register.

Rarity. In Fort Worth, the only item reported missing after a three-day Army showing of several million dollars' worth of equipment was a pair of rayon WAC panties, with real elastic.

Round & Round. In Washington, 40,000 portable phonographs were repatriated from Africa. Explained a Foreign Economic Administration spokesman: "We had to provide articles for which the natives would spend their pay."

That's That. In Trenton, N.J., the State Supreme Court thought & thought, finally announced that orange was a shade of yellow.

Better World. In Washington, D.C., the Fish and Wildlife Service prepared to try out the angler's dream gadget--a radar device expected to: 1) find schools of fish; 2) report on their sizes; 3) tell where they are going.

Fine Distinction. In Chicago, Miss Bertha Palmer lectured her colleagues of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union on how to tell "the difference between a beer bottle and a whiskey bottle".

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