Earmarked. In Rome, Italy, Romano Pandolfi, sick & tired of being teased about his big ears, grabbed a razor, trimmed them down to pint size.

Bare Minimum. In San Francisco, professional models asked 50-c- an hour more for posing naked than for posing "draped," explained: "Just tradition. It's really more comfortable without clothes."

Bird Call. In Hamburg, Germany, Elsa Zawada wandered into the zoo, suddenly heard a voice.calling, "Zawada, Zawada," looked into a cage, saw the parrot she had lost in 1944.

Frontal Attack. In Spartanburg, R. C. Wyatt, 79, sore because Waitress Bessie Meheles gave him the cold shoulder, planted dynamite near the restaurant where she worked, blasted off its front.

Footloose. In Lille, France, tile-setter Yvon Dherire slipped from a roof, plummeted six stories, landed unhurt in a baby buggy from 'which a mother had just snatched her child. Consequence: the mother fainted, fell, broke an ankle.

Fare Trial. In Worcester, Mass., Gordon Browne, put off a bus before his stop, after an argument with the driver, sued the Worcester Street Railway Co. for breach of contract. His claim: 10-c-.

No Blueplate. In Lewiston, Me., Judge Adrien Cote refused to send "Bosco" Boulet to the county jail because the last time he kicked about the food too much.

The Compleat President. In Portland, Ore., the Portland Chapter of the Izaak Walton League looked about town for a man to make its president, finally found one: Izaak Walton.

Feminine Touch. In Lyons, France, bearded lady Mme. Maitre, after mislaying her safety razor, borrowed her husband's straightedge, shaved too close, cut her throat.

Out of Place. In Fieldsboro, N.J., Mayor Charles Griffith and three councilmen, two months after election day, suddenly quit, grumbled: "We're not appreciated."

Itemized Bill. In Kansas City, Mo., a woman sued for divorce, complained that her husband was "disagreeable, irritable, morbid, cool, bitter, jealous, heckling, picayunish, loathsome, insulting, brazen, miserly, gluttonish, temperamental, selfish, contemptuous, inattentive, uncivil and inconsiderate."

Out of Season. In San Diego, Yachtsman Sunshine Summers found it too cold for pleasure cruising, sold his 30-foot cabin boat to Early Snow.

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