See the World. In Oshkosh, Wis., Lloyd Connick, veteran of three campaigns, holder of the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, and an honorable discharge from the Army, turned 17, joined the Navy.

The Squeeze. In Boston, Charles Polley bought three auctioned corsets, all different sizes, for $4.75, hoping they would fit either his wife, mother, mother-in-law, or sister.

Fired. In Detroit, a watchman managed to get himself discharged--after his boss refused to fire him, the War Manpower Commission to release him--by setting fire to the warehouse he watched.

Double Feature. In Mexico City, cinema house employes, beset by union troubles, enraged audiences by running pictures without sound, sound without pictures.

Street Scene. In Kansas City, a labor picket, tiring of his eight months' fruitless vigil, knocked off for some deep-sea fishing off California, was treated to a farewell party by friends he had acquired on the job.

Grown Up. In Chicago, Druggist George Haering, 82, bopped a burglar with a bottle, roped him, told admiring police: "I'm getting too old to be afraid of anybody."

Sartorially Yours. In St. Petersburg, Fla., Charles Granderson lost his entire wardrobe to a burglar, moved to new quarters vacated by a tenant convicted of watch-snatching, found his own clothes hanging in the closet.

On the Spot. In Detroit, Mrs. Minnie Jordan stopped her car in the middle of a jammed downtown street, changed her baby's diapers, got a suspended traffic court sentence because "it was an emergency."

Eureka! In Yreka, Calif., Mrs. Dorothy Hill, troutless after casting her entire collection of flies, plucked a pretty red hair from her companion's head, landed two beauties.

Missourian. In Kansas City, a traveler stepped off a cross-country bus, asked the way to Woodward Avenue, indignantly insisting he was in Detroit. Replied the path-guider: "Well, I'm in Kansas City."

Those Irish. In Manhattan, the Smiling Irishman, a German-American used-car dealer, lost a legal battle over trade-name violation to the Laughing Irishman, an Italian-American used-car dealer, launched a fresh complaint against an Irish-American used-car dealer, the Happy Irishman.

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