Choice Cut. In Manhattan, meat-hungry gourmets were offered, after an accident at an upstate game reserve that incapacitated the animal for zoo purposes, a limited supply of llama steak.

Whistle Stop. In Wales, when the war time ban on railway-station signs was removed, a stationmaster restored his town's 30-foot long sign: Llanfairpwllgwyngo-gerychrynbwllllandysiliogogogoch.

A Room with a View. In Washington, U.S. Public Health Service officers pondered the request of a law-abiding house wife, living smack on the Vermont-Canadian border, to import her 24-year-old parrot from her cramped Canadian kitchen to her spacious U.S. living room, found that the bird-quarantine laws (effective in 1930) were not retroactive, told her to bring the bird across.

Autumn. In St. Louis, Dr. and Mrs. Roscoe J. Reeder, celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary, capitulated, gave the scrap-paper drive ten pounds of love letters.

Tosspot Tempest. In Manhattan, Katherine O'Connor, denied drink by a saloonkeeper, heaved three barstools into his bar mirror, swept 36 cocktail glasses to the floor, smashed 48 beer glasses, bounced 36 empty bottles off the walls, was finally bounced herself.

Wet Wash. In Washington, the War Production Board, revealing that 1944's output of diaper cloth was up 93% from 1939> provisoed that because 31% more babies were born last year the individual yardage had expanded only 40%.

Old Army Game. In Alliance, Neb., four girls were married to four Army Air Forces paratroopers by a paratrooper chaplain, heard nothing further from hus bands or chaplain, found that they were without benefit of marriage licenses.

Three Little Words. In Portland, Ore., John R. Polioudakis, proprietor of a grocery store, answering a stranger's query, was hit over the head with an iron pipe when he uttered the phrase: "Sorry, no cigarets."

Hearts and Flowers. In Denver, a hold up man, removing $120 from a local hotel, admonished the impatient clerk: "Give me a break -- I got a sick mother."

Names Make News. In Cleveland, Barbara Fritchey, county war-bond committeewoman, telephoned one John Paul Jones, announced that her boss, Daniel Boone, had scheduled as speakers for a meeting Underwriter Paul Whiteman and the Urban League's George Washington.

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