Thunderbolt

In Unionville, Conn., Farmer John Lorencik, 22, announced his engagement to Nurse Henrietta Wilhelmina Pieper, 70, a gat-toothed spinstress. Said she: "It just came over both of us like a thunderbolt." Said he: "She won't keep me out late at night."

Convenient

In Kansas City, Mo., Sergeant William Simpson and Detective C. R. Wagner, leafing through a detective magazine at a newsstand, looked up from the picture of a wanted man into his face, arrested him.

Free

Most interested listeners when J. Emory Duskin, onetime head of Alabama's real estate association, broadcast from Manhattan on Sanka Coffee Co.'s We, the People program were 1,300 convicts gathered around the radio in the model dairy of Montgomery, Ala.'s Kilby prison. Reason: Mr. Duskin, their colleague, under a 36 to 60-year sentence for borrowing 850,000 from his former clients, but on parole since last July, had been granted permission by Governor Bibb Graves to fly to Manhattan unguarded for the broadcast. The keynote of his speech: "The most important thing in life is freedom. Freedom to get out under the blue sky ... to look up at the stars at night. . . ."

Free Seats

In the Boston Traveler appeared an ad: All wool navy ski pants, three dollars and forty cents per leg. Seats free.

Rift

In Terre Haute, Ind., Farmer William H. Wilson divorced his wife. Reason: she took his false teeth, held them for $2 ransom.

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