It Takes All Kinds...

New York. For the bebop man, Manhattan's Alley's Creative Clothes "The House of Frantic Styles"offered two of its newest and slickest numbers:at $14.95, a knee-length, double-breasted gabardine "Bop Cardigan," with four patch-pockets and no lapels; at $8.95, a pair of "highrise, drop-loop, saddle-stitch, tricky-pocket peg pants."

Illinois. Just when Chicago was congratulating itself on an alltime record of 13 days without a single reported homicide,* police found the body of one Joseph Barren, alias "Chicken Joe," in a backyard with a knife in his heart.

Washington. After giving more butterfat in her milk than any other cow in U.S. history, Carnation Homestead Daisy Madcap, a moon-eyed Holstein belonging to the Carnation Co., was crowned "Queen of All Cows." At Daisy's coronation, Carnation Director G. S. Bulkley pronounced the eulogy: "To the dairy cow: protector of our natural health and wealth, fountain of youth of this modern day. To the dairy cow: our slave, our friend, our foster mother. Thank God for the dairy cow!"

Michigan. When the state senate balked at seating Democratic Senators Charles C. Diggs and Anthony Wilkowsky because each had previously served a prison term, Democratic Senator Robert A. Haggerty made a plea for tolerance: "I don't know any politician who wouldn't do what Wilkowsky did. I think they called it ballot-box stuffing."

Arizona. After 114 days without rain, Arizona was enduring one of the longest droughts in state history. Water holes and rivers had gone dry, ranges were dust, cattle herds were being shipped north or sold. The drought belt extended east to New Mexico and central Texas. In some Texas saloons, tin cups were put by the cash registers to collect funds for professional rainmakers. Oldtimers glumly compared conditions to the famous drought of 1903-04, when a man could cross the Verde River over the carcasses of dead cattle and never touch foot to the dry riverbed.

Virginia. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People clamped a boycott on a scheduled Richmond concert by Negro Singer Marian Anderson. Reason: white people were being discriminated against. All the choice center-section seats had been reserved for Negroes.

Tennessee. As part of his emphasis on youth work, Dr. W. C. Newman, pastor of Memphis' First Methodist Church, set aside a special, dimly lit "Daters' Balcony" for teen-agers at Sunday services.

* Former record: seven days, set last year.

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