A calendar of the triumphs, defeats and contortions of the human spirit during 1951.

JANUARY--Fare Enough. In Chicago, Hudson Dealer Jim Moran, who advertised that he would pay any prospective customer's transportation to his showroom, got a taker, shelled out $708 for a plane ticket from Sydney, Australia.

FEBRUARY--Don't Move. In Rangoon, Burma, Fisherman Gaung Shai, after being stranded for 15 months on a desert isle in the Indian Ocean, reported that when a boat finally came to his rescue, its crew bemoaned the state of the world, advised him to stay stranded.

MARCH--The Informer. In Pittsburgh, after 40 holdup victims were unable to identify any suspect in a police lineup, one of the suspects obliged by identifying three of the persons he had held up.

APRIL--Dots & Dashes. In Superior, Wis., Morris Barieult, a railroad worker, explained in court why he set upon three bunkmates with an iron poker: he suspected they were plotting an attack on him by snoring in Morse code.

MAY--Long Count. In Washington, D.C., after taking a count of ten, Boxer James Walker staggered up from the canvas to challenge a jeering ring fan, who floored him again with one haymaker.

JUNE--Cost of Living. In Sherman, Texas, Price's department store advertised $2 shirts for $3.

JULY--Double Standard. At Fort Devens, Mass., Donald Potter began Army paratrooper training after the Navy rejected him because he would neither remove his nude tattoo nor drape her.

AUGUST--Missing Links. In Vancouver, B.C., police sought four tosspots who had been pushing each other into a zoo moat to entertain the sober inhabitants of Stanley Park's monkey house.

SEPTEMBER--Demand & Supply. In Korea, the 2nd Division's 38th Regiment requisitioned a generator and two typewriters, received a candle and two pencils.

OCTOBER--Down by the Bough. In Attleboro, Mass., Alonzo Benson dreamed that he was lying head down in three feet of water, woke up to find himself hanging by his knees from a tree in the backyard.

NOVEMBER--Curb Service. In Los Angeles, Al McCarthy, 49, was sentenced to 175 days in county jail for dressing as a priest and accepting free drinks in exchange for hearing barroom confessions.

DECEMBER--Trial Run. In Santa Clara, Calif., Jackie Cambra, 6, started down his chimney, got stuck, finished the trip with aid from firemen, wrote to Santa Claus: "Use the front door or window."

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