Americana

>In Talladega, Ala., a white-hooded delegation of Ku Kluxers and a white-bearded Santa Claus presented a radio to Jack Riddle, a 107-year-old Negro and his wife, Josey, 86, so they could have their wish, to "hear the preachers." Grand Dragon Samuel Green explained that this demonstrated the "heart of a Klansman," called in photographers to take the most incongruous picture of the week (see cut).

>Oakland, Calif, police closed in on a huge Chinese lottery ring, arrested 25 Chinese and confiscated three tons of unmarked lottery tickets. Accused of operating a $250,000-per-month illicit business, ringleaders blandly explained that it was nothing of the sort. They were members of a voluntary expeditionary force formed to aid Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, and the lottery tickets were really Chinese draft cards.

>When her doctor thought that Mrs. Jeanne Goldstein of Brooklyn would have quadruplets, he hustled up a movie camera, had the deliveries recorded in Technicolor. There had to be a minor alteration in the script: Mrs. Goldstein only delivered triplets.

>The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Michigan law which forbids women to work as barmaids in any town over 50,000. Sole exceptions: wives and daughters of bar owners.

>When Joseph Guttman, 19, of Nowy Sacz, Poland, greeted Master Sergeant William Best, U.S.A., at a New York pier, he broke down and sobbed with joy. After Best's outfit had liberated him from Buchenwald, Best adopted him and finally managed to get him to Brooklyn.

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