Big Game. In Kittery, Me., toll collectors on the state turnpike posted a daily revised box score of the hunting season's bag in the following categories: deer, bears, raccoons, foxes, bobcats, hunters.

Straight Answer. In Arnhem, The Netherlands, police were called to break up a near free-for-all between two families at the town hall when, during a marriage ceremony, Registrar R. Kamphuis asked the bride if she would take the groom as her lawful wedded husband and she replied "No."

Happy Ending. In Tokyo, when Mystery Writer Edogawa Ranpo reported that his house had been ransacked by a burglar, police looked around, found no clues, helpfully suggested that it would make a good mystery story.

Machine Politics. In Prince Albert, Sask., after Mayor John M. Cuelenaere repeatedly urged voters to make certain that their names were printed on the official list as accredited voters, he was nearly barred from running for re-election when it was discovered that his own name had been left off.

Unpleasant Aftertaste. In San Rafael, Calif., William O. Weissich Sr. was awarded $500 by the court after testifying that, while he was smoking a cigar on a bus, the lady driver snatched it from his hand, ground it out on the steering wheel and left him "shocked, trembling, mortified and embarrassed."

College Try. In Chapel Hill, N.C., after grimly watching his school's football team drop three games in a row, University of North Carolina Cheer Leader Harry Benton Thorp turned in his megaphone, reported to the coach as a team candidate.

Attention to Detail. In Japan, Marine Lieut. James H. Orr took his old darned uniform to a tailor, asked to have another made exactly like it, returned later to find the new uniform, complete with darn.

Depression. In Cumberland, Md., William Lowery, still half asleep, got up on the wrong side of the bed, fell out the second-story window.

Reverse English. In London, Conservative M.P. Major Sydney Markham complained in the House of Commons that tradesmen, cashing in on the coming coronation, were using objectionable ads, e.g.: "Ladies' underwear, ornamented with the Union Jack at the rear."

Business Cycle. In Appleton, Wis., David Zwick told the municipal court that he had been trapping muskrats out of season to finance his way through conservation school.

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