Americana

MANNERS & MORALS

P: Almost unnoticed by the numbed consumer, meat prices crawled to an alltime high. In New York City last week the average for porterhouse steak was $1.03 a pound, for round steak $1.00. P: In Michigan City, Ind., Mrs. Margaret Agnew, 33, had her dentist arrested for assault and battery. The dentist, she said, had pulled a dozen of her teeth without permission, gave her no anesthetic, took a drink of whiskey after each extraction. P:Cincinnati Common Pleas Judge Stanley Struble, 82, took a long look at a series of magazine pictures showing a young woman stripping down to the buff, acquitted a news dealer of peddling obscene literature. Said Judge Struble: "The front views, as well as the other views, are of God's own children. There cannot be any obscenity in God's own handiwork." P: New York City celebrated its Golden Jubilee ( 50th anniversary of the consolidation of its five boroughs) with a six-hour parade down Fifth Avenue. There were 55,000 marchers, 100 bands, over a million spectators.

P: In Newport, Tenn., John Hickey announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate on a platform of "Christ, the common man, and chiropractic."

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