Egg

In a Waikato, New Zealand, hospital, Harold Ryder got bored lying in bed. To while away the time, he asked for a fresh egg, "set" on it steadily for 25 days, hatched a healthy white Leghorn chick.

Shock From Lima, Peru, came a Decameronian tale: a stroke of lightning which ripped off all the clothes of a beautiful young woman in the streets of Calendin (pop.: 5,000), left her mute from shock. Shocked in his turn by the dazzling sight, a passer-by who had long been mute, recovered his powers of speech.

Bill

In the Tennessee State Legislature, State Senator Lem Motlow, long vexed by tobacco auctioneers' gabble-gobble, introduced a bill requiring every Tennessee auctioneer "to speak distinctly and slowly enough so that he may be understood by the average citizen."

Grandmothers

In Chicago, 35 grandmothers and great-grandmothers, aged 33 to 85, staged a revue in blackface, Grandma's Scandals of 1939. Members of the Chicago chapter of the National Grandmothers' Club, the old girls scampered through 16 specialties, from cakewalks to French songs. Said the club's Chicago president: "It's got zip--so much zip that several grandchildren have had the nerve to protest."

Cow

In Hartley, Neb., while John Proud milked his cow, the cow stepped on a cat's tail. The cat scratched the cow. The cow kicked at the cat, struck John Proud's wife, broke her left leg. As Proud pulled his wife out of further harm's way, the cow kicked again, broke the left leg of John Proud.

Baby

In Newark, N. J., Mr. & Mrs. Gerard Gardiner's two-story frame house caught fire. Awakened by the smoke, Mrs. Gardiner's sister wrapped one-month-old Kevin Gardiner in blankets, called to men in the yard, and dropped the baby from the second-story window. In the smoke and darkness they thought she was tossing a bundle of clothes, let it fall, dragged it 20 feet from the house, left it in the snow. Half an hour later a fireman heard the baby cry, picked it up unharmed.

Suit

In Mecca, Calif., Caroline Faber sued Paramount Pictures, Inc. for $50,000. Reason: when she accepted a manager's invitation to watch a Paramount company working on Her Jungle Love, a chimpanzee named Jiggs (since dead) embraced her, bit her backside.

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