Americana

MANNERS & MORALS P: A 24-year-old artist named Cock van Gent ran an advertisement in a Los Angeles newspaper offering her left ear for sale for $24,000; she explained that she would use the money for living expenses while pursuing her career.

P: Apparently stimulated by the approach of spring, 250 male students of Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill., raided a women's dormitory, tipped over beds and pushed screeching coeds into cold showers. The girls seemed delighted. "It was more fun than anything else," said Senior Lois Taylor. "In fact, we had an inkling they were coming."

P: San Francisco's famed Armenian restaurateur, George Mardikian, complained that New England's cooks did not take proper advantage of Atlantic sea. food; he gave them 2% more years to achieve a masterpiece, or he would come east and achieve it himself.

P: A 26-year-old carpenter named Joe Gagnon claimed a world record for clam eating after he downed 167 steamed little-necks in eight minutes in Seattle.

P: Mrs. Stella Kasprowicz, operator of a Newark, N.J. delicatessen, announced that her grey cat, Tiger, and her dog, Spotty, were sharing their bed near her stove with a large white rat.

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