This Is Your Life. In Pittsburgh, police arrested James V. Spagnola, reported that he used a sledge hammer, hatchet and shears on the furnishings of his estranged wife's home while she was at work, shut off the gas and cut the power lines and scrawled on the living-room mirror: "This is your home, Doll."

Brief Encounter. In Hampton Court, England, after Neil Dronfield, 8, fell off a bridge into the Thames, followed by Frank Willingdale, who was trying to save him, followed by Mrs. Willingdale, who was trying to save her husband, followed by the four Willingdale children, aged two to seven years, a stranger strolled by, pulled all seven out of the water, departed without disclosing his name.

Pocket Veto. In Billings, Mont., when charged with attempted theft, William F. Barraugh explained that he had forgotten to empty his pockets of the cheese, meat, sardines, avocado and bologna he had put there when he found the grocery store "too crowded to push a cart.''

Hindsight. In Council Bluffs, Iowa, Mrs. Raymond Hall began trimming dead limbs from a neighbor's tree, was 50 feet up before she realized that she had sawed so many limbs she could not get down, when rescued by the fire department commented: "That was the dumbest thing I ever heard of."

Old Wives' Tale. In East Liverpool, Ohio, after he had been fined $50 and costs for blacking the eye of his estranged wife, Clarence Cobb complained to the judge: "She knew I was a coon hunter and a drinker before we were married, and she never said a word; afterward, it was just nag, nag, nag!"

In the Neighborhood. In Salt Lake City, after years of running newspaper advertisements. Thomas J. and Frank Wiley finally persuaded a Denver foundling home to tell them the adopted name of their long-lost brother, looked in their local directory, found that brother Hugh Bernecker, a substitute schoolteacher, had lived within 40 miles of them for 15 years and had once taught at a school attended by Frank's children.

Network Member. In Long Beach, Calif., Theater Proprietor Milt Arthur discovered an ardent fan laying cables in a trench under the fence of a drive-in movie, learned that he was trying to hook them to the theater's sound system so that he could hear as well as see the movies from his nearby home.

Pay As You Go. In Billings, Mont., Maurice McCarty, 46, pleaded guilty for the 76th time to a charge of drunkenness, complained to the court that police are giving him "life imprisonment on the installment plan."

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