Americana

P:Dr. Dorothy T. Spoerl, psychologist at the American International College of Springfield, Mass., told her students that there was nothing "as wholesome as good, clean necking"--at the right time and place. Said she: "You don't have to travel 100 miles into the woods where you'll be alone with temptation."

P:Kansas City's once-mighty Democratic machine, which used to get out the votes for Boss Tom Pendergast, was unable to persuade any "high-type" candidate to run on its ticket, meekly threw in with Reform Mayor William E. Kemp.

P:A New York toy manufacturer offered a doll which, when patted, burped.

P:Dr. John Maxwell, 85, presidential nominee of the Vegetarian Party, set up headquarters in New York City, counted (he said) on getting 3,000,000 votes. One difficulty was that Dr. Maxwell was born in England. "Of course, we don't expect to be elected," said Vegetarian Vice Presidential Nominee Symon Gould.

P:At Rye, N.H., Blake H. Rand, 84, was elected to his 61st term as town clerk.

P:Treasury agents arrested income-tax "Expert" Vincent J. Cannara of Bloomfield, N.J. He showed his clients the way to big deductions, told them not to worry because he would sign his name as adviser. Then he collected his fee and signed--with disappearing ink.

P:After several merchants, a tavern owner and the Jefferson Bank and Trust Co. had cashed advertising mailers designed to look like $10 checks, the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis pointed out that nowhere on the "check" did there appear the name of a bank.

P:Citizens of Louisiana, piqued at being left off the itinerary of the Friendship Train, sent off their own New Orleans Friendship Ship loaded with 10,000 tons of food and clothing for Orleans, France.

P:After years of resistance, Miami Beach hotels finally gave the Gideons permission to put Bibles in their 23,000-odd rooms. The society prepared to haul 23 tons of Bibles from Philadelphia to Miami Beach in mid-April for the "World's Greatest Bible Dedication."

P:The U.S. Pacific Fleet Headquarters figured out that if Hawaii and/or Alaska is admitted as a new state, it will be cheaper to replace 149,895 fleet flags at a cost of $1.5 million than to rearrange the stars.

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