Winged. At Shilo Camp, Manitoba, paratrooper wings were presented to 29 Ontario soldiers, including Private Donald Duck.

Clean Cruelty. In Boston, Paul F. Bucci won a divorce on grounds of cruelty when he testified that his wife kept their home too clean -- "like a show place and I couldn't enjoy it." Arsenal. In Des Moines, Robert Butterworth was arrested by police and given a routine shakedown, which revealed that he was harboring on his person: 20 paint brushes, 60 pens and pencils, 17 combs, 50 ft. of rope, a quart of sauerkraut, 5 Ib. of sugar, 3 Ib. of wieners, a gross of used toothpicks, four flashlights, a hammer, six knives, a grindstone, a tube of shaving cream and four putty knives. He was charged with "maintaining a fire hazard." Only Yesterday. In Toledo, Ore., a merchant discovered that he had accepted a bad check drawn on the Lincoln County Bank, which used to be right across the street until it closed ten years ago. For Luck. In San Francisco, Tharn-midsbe L. Praghustspondgifeem, who was known as Edward L. Hayes before he started building combinations of good-omen words, petitioned the Superior Court for permission to change his name to Miswaldpornghuestficset Balstemdrigne-shofwintpluasjof Wrandvaistplondqesky-crufemgeish. Ruble Trouble. In Manhattan, Mrs. Tatiana Jemtchoujnikov sued to recover $24,600 on a loan of 50,000 Tsarist rubles her husband made in 1918 to Jacques Zolotnitzky, who offered to settle for one-millionth of a Soviet ruble. His argument: one 1944 ruble is equal to 50,000,000,000 1918 rubles. Never a Bridesmaid. In Detroit, Mrs. Korene Stankowich, 35, arrested by the FBI for cashing four different soldiers' allotment checks, confessed she had mar ried 15 men in the last 18 years. Explained Mrs. Stankowich (the name of No. 15): "I am very much alive, and I don't think there is any explanation of what a woman will do when she is very much alive." Feeling Seedy. In Wichita, Mrs. Mil dred Braley learned what happened to her bowl of nasturtium seeds when her test-pilot husband rose heavily from the table, commented: "I can't say I think much of your new brand of breakfast cereal." Bushed. In Los Angeles, Edward Jones tossed $400 into a clump of bushes just before holdup men grabbed the $20 in his wallet; after the robbers had gone, he hustled over to the shrubbery, found his $400 had gone, too.

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