Cuckoo

In Frindsbury, England, 20-year-old Postman Harry Cuckoo was arrested, put on probation for two years for throwing away Christmas cards and letters, instead of delivering them. Harry Cuckoo's defense: "I found it hard to find my way about . . . there was thick snow on the ground."

Twins

In Detroit, Agnes and Mary Bonahoom, twins who two years ago married twins, Alfred J. and Emil Bonahoom, in a twin marriage ceremony, and who lived in twin apartments, filed twin petitions for separate maintenance. Both were "unhappy."

Leaks

In a Paris apartment house, police investigated the suspicious circumstance of ten gaspipe leaks in the same apartment within a few weeks. A maid, arrested, confessed that she had caused nine of the leaks because she fell in love with the. plumber who repaired the first one.

Cake

In Boston, a housewife telephoned police to request that her street be closed to traffic for three hours. Reason: she was baking a surprise cake for her husband, feared that passing cars might cause it to fall.

Mixer

In Denver, Colo., three-year-old Elaine Nybord started to play with an electric batter-mixer while it was mixing batter in a bowl. As it fell to the floor, it knocked her down, caught her by the curls, yanked most of them out.

Record

In Manhattan, during the battle scene of Maurice Evans' Henry IV, Part I, the offstage martial hurly-burly is provided by a gramophone record. Newshawks discovered its name: General Excited Confusion of Crowd at Baseball Game.

Student

In Cambridge, Mass., 36-year-old George Bosworth Burch, father of two, who is now completing his 18th year at Harvard, declared that he has no particular goal in view, plans to continue his philosophical studies indefinitely.

Descendant

In Manhattan, on Washington's birthday, newshawks discovered Elizabeth Washington, onetime vaudeville actress and direct descendant of his brother John Augustine, cheerfully playing a fiddle in Manhattan's WPA Federal Theater. Said she: "There must be thousands of Washington descendants. The family was enormous.* . . . Just say I swing a mean crinoline."

* Washington himself had no children.

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