Spiritual Lift. In Albany, Bell Aircraft's Benson Hamlin announced that jet planes can run on corn liquor.

Double-Dealing. In Stirling, Scotland, four bridge players were each simultaneously dealt the same 13 cards twice on the same night (2nd and 18th hands). Odds against it: 85,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000 to one.

Dental Fleece. In Columbus, S.C., Dentist C. B. Draffin stepped out of his office and a stranger stepped in, collected $10 in advance for repairs on a patient's plates, quickly stepped out again.

Marital Prospects. In Lafayette, Ind., Richard C. Steinmetz of the Chicago Fire Prevention Bureau said that unhappy wives often set their houses afire. In Atlantic City, Dr. Clifford R. Adams, Pennsylvania State College marriage counselor, announced that morality will hit bottom by 1955 and four out of every ten marriages will end in divorce.

Game Bird. In Houston, duck-hungry Stanley J. Bonner was shot in the knee, by a duck which collided with his pistol hand.

Oke. In Manhattan, Leon James and Fletcher Rivers, ex-partners in a vaudeville act called Moke & Poke, settled their dispute over rights to the title, went their separate ways with new partners --billed as Coke & Poke and Moke & Doke.

Current Sabotage. In Albany, Ore., a squirrel short-circuited the city out of electricity and water (electric-pumped).

In Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., a mouse shut off the electricity. In Freeport, Ill., an owl jammed a high-tension transformer.

Long Arm of the Law. In Baltimore, 49 charges of "burglary, attempted burglary and in addition, carrying a deadly weapon were filed against Paul H. Maenhoudt, only four months off the police force.

Rights of Man & Wife. In Nottingham, England, a national campaign against meddlesome mothers-in-law was opened by the Society for the Suppression of Family Interference.

Westward Ho! In Lafayette, Ga., Marine Captain H. L. Kipp, unable to get train or plane space for himself & bride to San Diego, took a cab. Tariff: $750.

Slice of Life. In Burganj, India, death came to Haji Ghulam Mohammed, 127, married ten times (one wife tried to poison him), a father 32 times (oldest living child 85; youngest 4).

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