Change of Heart. In Knoxville, Term., Alice Emert Wells, married ten times before, returned marriage license No. 11 to he county clerk's office with an explanation: "I got cold feet." In Nashville, Deputy Clerk Jimmy O'Connell reported that a man turned in his marriage license, took the refund and bought a license to marry another woman.

If I Had the Wings ... In Niagara Falls, the Bell Aircraft Corp. received a letter from an inmate of an Illinois state penitentiary: "How long a warm-up is needed [for a helicopter]? What is the down payment . . .? Will it carry two people . . .?"

Heady Draught. In Miami, Fred H. Kautzmann charged that the James Drug Shop had mixed the labels on two prescriptions, causing him for the past year to rub stomach medicine on his scalp and drink his hair tonic.

Exit Laughing. In London, a man advertised in the Times: "Bridegroom, anxious, unintelligent, lost for wedding speech. Any humourous suggestions welcome . . ."

Theory & Practice. In Ann Arbor, Mich., Fred Viegel, 19, winner of a 1947 prize for an essay on fire prevention, was charged with burning down a rural schoolhouse.

Do-Gooder. In Schenectady, N.Y., Edward J. Jeffries got 50 days in jail after he admitted that he had walked around town tearing overtime parking tickets off other motorists' cars.

Chemical Warfare. In Milwaukee, Landlord Oswald Hemmerling, suing to evict Tenant Charles Baumgartner, charged that Mrs. Baumgartner fed garlic to the Hemmerlings' dog.

Self-Interest. In London, after a 22-month manhunt for Escaped Murderer James Edward Allen, Scotland Yard men spotted him in front of a police station, reading his own "Wanted" notice.

Lockout. In Trenton, N.J., the state supreme court, dismissing Mrs. Lillian Brown's divorce suit, ruled that since she had changed the lock on the door and refused to let her husband in the house, she could scarcely complain that he had deserted her.

Voice of Experience. In Los Angeles, after Traffic Violator Elmer G. Noe told the court that "even though I was driving with one arm around my girl friend, everything was under control," Judge Roser A. Pfaff retorted sharply: "Young man, I was young once myself. Everything cannot be under control in those circumstances."

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