Americana

P: Californians studied the results of the Moss Stores Panty Poll. Moss had introduced two new women's panties, one embroidered with "Dewey-Warren," the other with "Truman-Barkley." Results of the poll to date (by sales): Dewey-Warren, 8 to 5.

P: Indianapolis Grocer Albert Galyan, who started his supermarket with little more than two nickels to rub together and ran it up to a $2,500,000 business in two years, stirred up a cake to celebrate. When the bakers got it just right, it stood eight feet high, carried 1,500 roses, weighed just over a long ton. Galyan beamed, cut it up into 17,000 pieces for his customers, threw in a $2,800 Frazer as a door prize.

P: General Jacob L. Devers, chief of Army Field Forces, had a comforting word for prospective draftees. The General promised that they would be treated as persons "of individual dignity and feelings, entitled to courtesy and consideration"--and hear no profanity from their sergeants.

P: Alexander J. Derouin, a gardener, defeated 158 women entrants in a Connecticut Grange cookie-making contest. Said he: "It's self-preservation. My wife is a lecturer for the Grange, president of the American Legion auxiliary and a member of a dozen clubs. If I couldn't cook, I'd starve."

P: The U.S. Supreme Court sustained 4 to 4 (a tie upholds the lower court) New York State's right to ban Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County as obscene, but only after several copies of the book, supplied for the justices' reading, disappeared.

P: Saginaw, Mich, abandoned its old-fashioned corner pumps, with their old oaken buckets, which had supplied the town's drinking water for years. (Water from the polluted Saginaw River was unpalatable after chemical treatment.) This week new drinking water poured in through pipes from, Lake Huron, 80 miles away.

P: An alarm box for ladies in distress which fits pocket or purse was advertised by a New York department store: "Though we hope you'll never have to use it, if you should sense, danger, simply flick a little button and the Beau Alarm releases a shrill, penetrating siren shriek that positively cannot be stopped until it runs down and that can be heard for blocks around."

P: Nathan Hirschberg, a Manhattan attorney, testified in his wife's suit for separation that he used to leave tender notes on her pillow before leaving for work. Sample: "Cherub: Rise and shine. 'Tis a lovely day for a lovely cherub." If he failed to leave a note, said Hirschberg, his wife would cut loose later with "swear words and oaths that would make a seasoned muleskinner envious." Said Cherub: "I remember calling him, nothing worse than a penny-pinching jerk."

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