Ambition. In Atlantic City, three-year-old David Cavanaugh started an empty milk truck, crashed into a car, ricocheted into another, smacked into a house, got out unhurt, declared: "I want to be a milkman."

Firefly. Near Trinity Center, Calif., a grazing horse swished his tail at a fly, hit a low-hanging high-tension wire, set his tail ablaze, was electrocuted, started a 55-acre forest fire.

Preference. In Centralia, Ill., Jack and Mary Ann Sligar advertised in the Sentinel: "Wanted immediately--unfurnished apartment or house: man, wife, and daughter, 8, and dog. Will dispose of dog, but prefer to keep child."

Practice, Doctrine. In San Francisco, Dr. Harold Morrison, operator of the Marriage Clinic, asked postponement of his divorce-suit hearings, explained he had a lecture engagement. His subject: "How to Be Happy though Married."

Pointer. In Dillon, S.C., James Bethea's bird dog wandered onto the tracks, spotted a train bearing down, belly-flopped, allowed engine and cars to whiz over him, got up, ambled away.

Master & Pupil. In Chicago, Mrs. Louis Knake sued for divorce, complained that her husband had taught her how to bowl, had walked out when she beat him.

Nor Iron Bars . . . In Doylestown, Pa., Prisoner Robert Henderson broke out of solitary, smashed through a steel mesh grating, broke a closely leaded window, squeezed his 170 lbs. between two iron bars, scaled a 10-ft. fence, escaped over a 32-ft. wall.

Air-Cooled. In Council Bluffs, Iowa, Ernest P. Medley begged police to reroute passenger planes that flew low over his house, complained that wind from the propellers often blew off his hat, that the suction pulled off his bedcovers.

How Not . . . In San Luis Obispo, Calif., Professor James Merson of California State Polytechnic showed a class how to crank a tractor so as not to break an arm, broke his arm.

Deficiency. In Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. Bernado Arroyo decided to kill herself, swallowed some pills, was rushed to the hospital, had her stomach pumped, learned she had taken vitamin tablets.

Rejection Slip. In Olympia, Wash., Bachelor Robert Wright, veteran of World Wars I & II, applied for a pension, was advised by the War Department that he had been killed in action, told that his widow should apply.

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