Dare

In Buffalo, playing with his friends, Albert Sypniewski, 9, put his foot in front of a moving train, hobbled three blocks to his home on the mangled leg. which had to be amputated below the knee. Said he: "They dared me to do it."

Gandhi

In Seattle, Wash., with only the waist-swung dollar watch and gap-toothed grin missing, Deri Erickson marched with his goat in a children's pet parade, made spectators gasp at his resemblance to Mahatma Gandhi.

Sterility

In Newark this spring John Kochorowsky kept telling his neighbors what a fine garden of onions and kohlrabi he was going to have. But something went wrong. Nothing came up. John Kochorowsky's garden became a great neighborhood joke. Meantime the garden next door flourished beautifully, became as famed for fertility as John Kochorowsky's was for sterility. One day last week John Kochorowsky gazed over the fence brooding long and darkly. Then he went down into his cellar, hanged himself.

Firebug

In Elizabeth, N. J., Barber Tony Felice, 56, was arrested for arson when police caught him. scurrying from the gasoline-fired hallway of a rival shop, with his shoes flaming.

Bellower

On the saddle of Tennessee's Cumberland Gap at stilly midnight Auctioneer Lee Chrisman raised his voice in mighty bellows. Friends posted eight miles away in Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee said they had heard him.

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