Monday, Mar. 24, 1958
Out of Bounds. In Vancouver, B.C., Golf Pro Jock McKinnon learned from doctors that he is allergic to grass.
Stinger. In Jackson, Miss., Mrs. Perry Hand, 31, admitted that she had put lye in her husband's whisky, explained that she wanted to "make him quit drinking."
Last Rites. In Detroit, Liberty Sam Lalomia, 39, told a judge he was planning to get married, received court permission to drop his first name.
Half-Pint Without a Cause. In Towner, N.Dak., an empty cream bottle, left on a counter in the Golden Rule Store, collected nearly a dollar in small coins before a clerk noticed it.
Overlap. In Tokyo, everyone was ruled blameless after a three-car collision involving 1) an expectant mother being rushed to the hospital in a taxi, 2) an off-duty traffic inspector chasing the cab, 3) the lady's obstetrician.
Mute Point. In Buffalo, Teddy Karlo, 50, arraigned on an intoxication charge, spoke Rumanian to the court, insisted that he could not understand English, heard the judge say "Thirty days," protested: "That's too much, Judge."
She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not.
In Meridian, Miss., Bob Goodman was arrested for bigamy after being divorced by two wives on consecutive days and remarrying the first one the day after that.
Molotov Cocktail. In Detroit, Moonshiner Macy Leggette Jr., 22, was convicted after a bottle of his homemade whisky exploded in a cop's pocket a few minutes before it was to be used as evidence against him.
Quality Court. In Indianapolis, John R. Rettig, 34, explained in court that he had stolen a car in Ohio, then hurried across the Indiana line to make his crime a federal offense, because he understood that the food is better in federal than in state prisons.
Bureaucrat's Bureaucrat. In Garden
City, Mich., Douglas Waddell, 50, had a falling out with the mayor, resigned as city superintendent, clerk, treasurer, purchasing agent, board of appeals secretary, planning commission member, street administrator, pension board secretary-treasurer and representative on the county sanitation authority.
Pro v. Amateur. In Norfolk, Mass., two lifers on the state prison debating team continued a three-year undefeated record--against such opponents as Oxford, Cambridge, M.I.T., Harvard--when they took the affirmative on the question "Bank Robbing Is Too Easy," downed the debating team of McGill University.
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