Situation Abnormal. In Manhattan, after ten weeks of challenge, fortune still smiled on the newly founded Snafu Fur Specialties Co.

Handy Man. In Buffalo, Arthur A.

Schwartz took a garbage pail, a frying pan, a length of stovepipe, an electric motor and two pulleys, put them all together, produced a rotary snowplow that could also mow a lawn.

What Goes On? On the western front, two Tibetans who had walked into Russia, been promptly drafted into the Red Army, then captured by the Germans, drafted into the German Army, and finally captured by Canadians, learned from a linguist for the first time in five years what all the fighting was about.

Citizen Fixit. In Teaneck, N.J., John Daddy, 50 and suspicious, watched a man open an automobile door and take out a package, expostulated, got no explanation, promptly fractured his jaw. In police court. Daddy learned that the man was Cornelius Graham, the car's owner.

Modest Proposal. In St. Louis, the Globe-Democrat ran an advertisement: "Help wanted. Cigaret Girl -- Gypsy Inn, 1100 S. Eighth. East St. Louis, Ill.; must bring own cigarets." Sidetracked. In Los Angeles, Mrs.

Carmen Landers claimed that her husband had ripped up three rooms of their house and part of the garage to lay tracks for his electric trains, complained: "He al ways wanted to play with his trains and not go out with me." She got her divorce.

Hand & Foot. In Washington, the Army offered for sale a lot of surplus plastic foot tubs; the Navy offered some 23,350 electric buzzers.

Covered. In Regina, Sask., J. L. Sky, manager of the local Trans-Canada Air lines station, is assisted by a control-tower operator named A. C. Heaven.

Silver Lining. In Juniper, N.B., Fred Grant, annoyed by crows, set out a box trap for them, caught instead an escaped silver fox which dropped a litter of five in the trap.

Just Desserts. In Gallup, N.Mex., a beribboned G.I., just back from three years in a Jap prison camp, was served a dish of rice pudding in a restaurant.

Furious, the G.L dragged the restaurateur to the post office, made him buy a $100 war bond.

Limited Editions. In Alberta, Canada, a newspaper announced: "Due to the shortage of newsprint a number of births will be postponed until next week."

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