Boom. In Whiting, Ind., Mrs. Elizabeth Koby, a $42-a-week Standard Oil employe, received her two-week pay envelope, found she had been overpaid by $99,999,910.

Dress Down. In Brooklyn, N.Y., Fort Hamilton's WACs received a list of clothing to be laid out on their beds for a rigid inspection, just before the zero hour got the list modified so that they would not be stark naked during the inspection.

Rough Reefer. In Boston, police hauled Booker K. Miller into court on a charge of peddling marijuana cigarets, dismissed his case when a chemist's report showed that the cigarets consisted entirely of catnip.

Body % Soul. In Pasadena, Calif., Miss Lois Hand was married to Sergeant George Foot.

Shady. In Los Angeles, Yrjo E. Tossavainen, a machinist, told a beautician he wanted his blond hair, eyebrows and eyelashes dyed brown, was questioned by suspicious police, admitted the reason he wanted the renovation: "My wife doesn't like it this way."

High-Strung. In Augusta, Me., Ralph E. Mosher, who won the nomination for state senator on both party tickets, reported his total campaign expenses: 18-c-, including 10-c- for a beer to "relax tension."

Cowed. Somewhere in Normandy, U.S. Army Paratrooper Herbert Sather floated down to earth safe & sound, was shortly evacuated to England with injuries suffered in a foxhole when a cow fell on him.

Family Affair. In Manhattan, a homecoming merchant seaman, informed by customs authorities that it would cost $5 to take his lately acquired Russian wolf hound ashore, decided to wait a while, eventually forked over $30 for the wolf hound and her five brand-new puppies.

From Right to Left. The Japanese radio explained the invasion: "In France, the Allied armies are retreating haphazardly inland."

Womanhandled. In Seattle, Longshore man Roy C. Pruett filed suit for $10,000, claimed he "suffered severe nervous shock . . . was battered, hurled, jerked and bruised" when he was thrown from a bus by Woman Driver Dorothy Castagno.

"Hiya, Babe." In Stockholm, five Swedish airmen advertised their hankering for feminine companionship, boasted that they had shot down five Flying Fortresses ; they soon had answers from 225 Swedish girls asking for the names and addresses of the Fortress crews.

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