Americana

MANNERS & MORALS

P:The nation's gum-chewers, reported Gum-Man Philip K. Wrigley, chomped enough sticks (19 billion) last year to reach around the equator 34 1/2 times.

P:Washington department stores, helping along an increase in the sale of ladies' fans (50-c- to $50), distributed an instruction booklet on fan language--"a language more eloquent than words, more revealing than a kiss." Excerpts: "Touch your lips with the fan to attract a kissing man." "I must see you alone (drop fan)." "You are too bold (unfurl fan quickly)."

P:Kansas Citians were outraged. In unsportsmanlike fashion, their motorcycle cops disguised themselves in colored shirts, baseball caps, or airmen's jackets, hauled in unsuspecting speedsters in baffled droves.

P:Leonard F. Colpitts of Ballard Vale, Mass, advertised a 1902 Stanley Steamer in "perfect running condition." Price: $2,800.

P:During dredging operations in the Delaware River, Army divers found the wreck of an English vessel sunk in 1750. Unable to raise the ship, the Army pumped most of its cargo through a suction pipe, spewing a mass of silt and 18th Century pewter plates, brass buttons, locks & keys, and silver shoe buckles on the riverbank.

P:James Walls, 47-year-old Negro laborer employed at Washington's Lincoln Memorial, hanged himself in the monument's basement.

P:The late Mrs. Mary Fuller Frazier, wealthy Philadelphia widow whose terror of germs once led her to hire a whole hospital floor to keep other patients at a safe distance, willed more than $1,000,000 for civic improvements to Perryopolis, the sooty little Pennsylvania mining town where she was born.

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