Monday, Sep. 05, 1955
Sea Change. In Florence, S.C., Claudia A. Hamilton brought a $20,000 suit against Glamor Shops, Inc., of New York, for "psychic injury to her personality" after a bathing suit she purchased became transparent in its first dip in the ocean.
On the House. In Cheektowaga, N.Y., two men broke into Emil Singer's tavern, while he and his wife were out shopping, served drinks and sandwiches to customers for six hours, calmly walked off with $40 from the cash register, plus an estimated $75 they had taken in over the counter.
The Man Who Doesn't Own One. In Milwaukee, Henry Krahl, 39, was found guilty of disturbing the peace, directed to report to a psychiatrist, after he repeatedly insulted motorists who drove by his home in Cadillacs, later told police his girl was stolen by a Cadillac driver.
Blackboard Bungle. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, two high-school honor students were deep in trouble for giving the Cedar Rapids Gazette a fake report of the death of their English and journalism teacher, Raymond F. Gorman, sending a carload of sod, a truckload of concrete, a diving lung and a 200-lb. bar bell to his house.
Point of Honor. In Atlanta, the seven men who collect nickels from city parking meters voted to buy official-looking uniforms with their own money to stop irate townsmen from accusing them of robbery when they are merely doing their job.
One, One-and-a-Half. In Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, after she spotted Six-Footer Angus Cleghorn attempting to break into the St. Hilda School, Teacher Gertrude Bird, 51, dazed him with an uppercut. held him until police arrived, commented: "I could have hurt Cleghorn, but I don't like roughhouse, so I didn't hit him very hard."
Sorry, Wrong Number. In Cincinnati, arrested after he crashed a teen-age girls' pajama party, Howard Schlueter, 30, testified that he entered the house to keep a date with his girl friend, was fined $50 when he admitted she had lived there 18 years ago.
Flaming Youth. In Birmingham, police grounded a 15-year-old who sneaked Charles Barnett's car out of a parking lot, drove down the sidewalk and sideswiped two cars, turned back into the lot, where he hit a third, bounced into the street and crunched into a fourth, which rammed a fifth which rammed a sixth, crashed to a stop against the back end of a truck.
Safety First. In Columbia County, Wis., Mrs. Jeannette Lecy was chased by police, leaped from a car she was driving at 100 m.p.h., suffered only minor cuts and bruises, later explained she jumped because she was afraid of an accident.
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