Spoil Sport. In Allentown, N.J., John Getz Sr. went out for a day of hunting, red a single blast into a covey of quail, bagged the daily limit of seven.

The Long Voyage Home. In Masterton, N.Z., Pigeon Fancier Robert Stewart looked in his loft, announced that his entry in the 1947 pigeon race from Christchurch to Masterton (300 miles) had finally made it.

Source Material. In Chicago, after the Commerce Department put on a public exhibit of new inventions and industrial techniques, Regional Director George C. Payne reported that someone had stolen a book entitled Table of Exponential Functions--E to the Power of X.

Doubleheader. In Honolulu, when Mrs. Warren B. Dawson rushed to help her husband who was grappling with a burglar in their darkened house, she swung twice with a chair, sent her husband to the hospital with lacerations, gave the burglar a brain concussion.

Reunion. In Korea, when Pfc. Richard Barcelo Jr. of Tucson, Ariz, was wounded by shrapnel on Triangle Hill, he was recognized by another soldier from Tucson, who carried him to a field hospital where he was treated by a doctor from Tucson.

Rain Check. In Bloomington, Ind., University of Indiana students scheduled a giant outdoor rain dance to seek relief for drought-parched crops, had to cancel the show because of a downpour.

First to Go. In Portland, Me., Rookie Fireman Lawrence Hasson heard his first alarm, raced for the brass pole, slid down to the first floor, broke bones in both feet.

After the Ball. In Milwaukee, Mrs. Louise Burnham was granted a divorce after she testified that her husband, who earns $200 a month as a gardener, paid $1,200 for ballroom-dancing lessons.

Ivory Towering Rage. In London, while participating in a television round-table discussion on rent controls, Oxford Don A. J. P. Taylor got so angry that he turned his back on the cameras, refused to utter a word for the rest of the program.

Piece de Resistance. In Milbank, S. Dak., just as Mrs. Albert Lindell was preparing to pluck the pheasant which her husband had shot, the bird took wing, flew out of the kitchen.

Joiner. In Hutchinson, Kans., Jeweler Glenn Brown caught a bad-check artist who casually remarked that he was both a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Masons.

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