Above & Beyond the Call. In New Orleans, Carl Bendzus was charged by federal agents with illegally wearing the Congressional Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, Purple Heart, Victoria Cross, British Military Medal, British Military Cross, Mons Star Medal, Victory Medal, Belgian Croix de Guerre, Belgian Order of the Crown, French Legion of Honor and half a dozen lesser decorations.

Double Jeopardy. In Los Angeles, after spending 20 weeks in the hospital with injuries suffered when she was hit by a car, Mrs. Mary C. Davies was carried into court on a stretcher, fined $25 for jaywalking.

Anything You Can Do ... In Syracuse, N.Y., while watching a doctor take four stitches out of his fiancee's head, a young man fainted, had to have nine stitches taken in his own scalp.

Custodians. In Albuquerque, Policemen Billy F. Lloyd and Julian Romero admitted that while investigating a robbery at a collection-agency office, they stole a radio and a revolver.

Sheer Ecstasy. In Hollywood, William C. Shaw Jr. explained to police who arrested him why he was wearing a nylon stocking over his face: "It makes me feel so good when I take it off."

Student. In Memphis, William Socrates, pleading guilty to stealing a clarinet, insisted that he "only intended to keep it till I could learn to play it."

March of Science. In Geelong, Australia, Chemist Edgar Noble announced that he had succeeded, after four years of experimentation, in impregnating men's suits with typical scents of the Australian bush.

Overture. In Minneapolis, Arvid Benson placed an ad in the Minneapolis Morning Tribune: "Will the driver who hit [me] at 16th and LaSalle Saturday night please call . . ."

Inside Job. In Quincy, Calif., Henry B. Davis was ordered to reimburse the state for the $126 in unemployment checks he had collected during his six-month stay in jail.

The Law's Delay. In Rio de Janeiro, the case of the late Postmaster Artur Neves, accused in 1889 of embezzling $100,000, finally reached the federal courts.

Neither Rain, nor Snow. In Los Angeles, Postman William E. Lilley Jr., arrested for hiding almost 5,000 undelivered letters in his apartment, explained that "I would just get tired and take some letters home ... I fully intended to deliver them in the due course of time."

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