Monday, Jul. 28, 1958

Civil Libertines. In Seoul, Korea, Vice Minister of Education Kim Sun Ki ordered all high-school teachers to give up their concubines.

Reel McCoy. Near Hyannis, Mass., Surf Fisherman George Vasquez got a firm strike, braced for battle, slowly played his catch to shore, landed a live, 70-in., rubber-flippered male skindiver.

Out on a Limb. In Roehampton, England, when one-legged Convict Glyn Peters was taken to a hospital and fitted with an artificial leg, he followed the doctor's suggestion that he walk around and try it, sauntered right out of the building and escaped.

True Blue Pencil. In Brisbane, Australia, customs men pounced on copies of a book called To Bed on Thursdays, discovered that it was the memoirs of an English editor whose paper went to press on Thursday nights.

Remand Union. In Chicago, Mrs. Berenice Reilly complained in court that her estranged husband was giving her $32 weekly on condition that she spend every nickel of it in his grocery.

Flea Point Landing. In Bell Gardens, Calif., Lester Grinstead leaped from a, bridge, landed 40 ft. below in one inch of water flowing over the concrete bottom of the Los Angeles River, got up, shook himself, walked off uninjured.

Insectarian. In Philadelphia, a burglar broke into a market, took 72 cans of assorted fried ants, baby bees, fried butterflies, smoked octopus, fried worms, smoked frogs' legs, roast caterpillars.

Buffed. In Elizabethton, Tenn., 22 motorists chased two fire trucks across town and into a trap set by police, who were waiting with summonses for traffic obstruction.

Icing the Icing. In Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, the African Daily News reported "a colorful wedding held in the Msana Reserve [that] ended with the bride delivering a baby boy soon after the cutting of the ceremonial cake."

Fallen Angel. In Gainesville, Fla., seven-year-old Greg Davis, outraged because he had to sit obscurely in the back row during the commencement ceremony at a seven-day summer Bible school, commented that it was "a whole week's work shot to hell."

Bench Warmer. In Fort Worth, when a judge told Neal Eubanks and Robert Adams that their case could be decided immediately if they would waive a waiting period, they looked at their lawyer, who advised them to waive, both raised their right hands and waved at the judge.

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