Monday, Aug. 15, 1955
The High Heart. In Ferrara, Italy, Carlo Bonuzzi, 30, flew over the town in a small plane, showered it with multicolor leaflets which read: "Dear Friends and Citizens: By sending you greetings from this plane, I wish to demonstrate that even if I have been abandoned by my wife, I do not worry about it and keep on being amused."
The Children's Hour. In Chidlows, Australia, Police Constable Don Laurance, lecturing schoolchildren on the dangers of handling explosives left from World War II, was so persuasive that they revealed their private cache of two 25-lb. shells, several grenades, detonators, and 50 rounds of small-arms ammunition.
Exhibit A. In San Pedro, Calif., Carl Krueger, 58, was acquitted of charges of shoplifting and eating a chewy candy bar after he bared his five teeth to the jury, revealed that no two of them met.
Hint. In Sydney, Australia, Landlord Hermanus Visser was fined $225 after a special court heard that in an effort to evict his tenants he had changed the lock of their flat, put their furniture out on the lawn, taken out the living-room windows, disconnected the water, gas and electricity, demolished the chimney.
Kamikaze. In Kobe, Japan, Taxi Driver Terumitsu Sano became suspicious of the jittery antics of Passenger Akimitsu Tatesu, deposited him at a police station, learned that he had planned to blow himself up in the cab with 20 sticks of dynamite.
Hot Corner. In Auckland, New Zealand, the City Council altered its road boundaries when the Town Planning Staff pointed out that one officially proclaimed road ran into a zoo, through the lion's cage, the hyena's cage, the baboon's cage.
Civil Servant. In Salt Lake City, after he called police and asked them to remove a dog that had been run over near his home, M. S. McRae was referred to the city dog catcher, was unable to reach him, indignantly called the mayor, was amazed to see Mayor Earl J. Glade arrive in his Cadillac, step out, gingerly lift the animal into his trunk compartment and drive off in the direction of the dog pound.
Mixed Emotions. In Philadelphia, lawyers probating Bartender Victor Ehrmann's will found that he had left $1,000 to Margaret Cole, characterized as "My best friend and cause of my ulcers."
Home Guard. In Detroit, caught robbing a woman's purse during a sermon at the Star of Hope Church, 200-lb. Matthew Williams had to be taken to a hospital, treated for cuts and bruises after he was floored by several ladies in the congregation, sat upon until the arrival of the police.
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