Americana

MANNERS & MORALS

P: Traffic on the Pulaski Skyway--New Jersey's elevated high speed automobile thruway to Manhattan--was jammed into a honking, mile-long tangle by a mule named Devil's Brother. When the cops arrived, they found pans, bundles and other impedimenta from the mule's pack scattered over the highway, and the beast itself engaged in a tug of war with Owner Clarence Hornbeck, a cadaverous, 58-year-old man in a tall silk hat. Hornbeck's explanation: he had bet some friends in Galesburg, Ill. that he could walk the mule to New York, bum a cigarette from a radio comedian and walk the mule back. What was he doing on the Pulaski Skyway? Why, just going home to pay off the bet--he hadn't been able to find the comedian.

P: Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke petitioned the township of Hillsborough, NJ. for the right to build a piggery in which even hogs could eat high on the hog. She proposed to construct quarters for 2,500 pigs, provide the establishment with a high pressure pen-flushing system, air-conditioning units, and atomizers to keep the flies off each and every porker. Snorted a neighboring farmer: "If she grows hogs that smell good they won't be hogs."

P: Commissioners of Noble County, Ohio voted 2 to 1 to ban Saturday night folk dancing by children on the courthouse grounds. Their ground: folk dancing is an immoral practice.

P: New York jewelers reported that the Korean crisis had set off the biggest spurt in the sale of engagement and wedding rings since the end of World War II.

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