Open Season. In Norton, Kans., after he had bagged his limit of three pheasants on a hunting trip, Purchasing Agent James Modie. 44, turned to go back to his car, was struck a stunning blow behind the right ear, came to 15 minutes later to discover that he had been dropped by a 3 1/2-lb. cock pheasant, which broke its neck on impact.

Letter of the Law. In San Diego, cornered two days after he took $6 and a $3,000 station wagon from a motel garage, Ex-Convict Conrad Hansen amiably handed over his toy pistol to police, explained that he had used it in the holdup because ex-convicts are not allowed to carry real guns.

The Sex Between the Warriors.

In Sydney. Australia, Phyllis Newton was fined $116 after she waylaid her husband on his return from a swim, pelted him with fruit, brass ashtrays, a doorstop, an electric iron, a lemon squeezer, a portable radio and a radiator, then cut up his new suit with a razor and burned his swimming trunks in the stove.

Unarmed Interference. In Baltimore, after writing anxiously to Magistrate Linwood C. Roger Sr. about the whereabouts of their old friend Midge Meyer, city-jail inmates were relieved to learn that Meyer had just been sentenced to his 106th term for drunkenness, and that he had been away so long only because he had been hospitalized with a broken arm.

Gin & Jitters. In Milwaukee, arrested on a drunk and disorderly conduct charge after a college football game, Robert Kes-selhon, 24, admitted drinking 15 martinis, theorized that the reason he had been found asleep on a neighbor's davenport was that "somebody must have put something in my drinks." As the Twig Is Bent. In Miami, ex-Seabee Francis Osborn, 26, spotted a bulldozer parked near a street-repair job, climbed aboard and happily chased ten policemen about the city streets, explained testily as he was booked for assault with a deadly weapon: "I just wanted to see if I could still run one." If Thy Brother Offend Thee. In Terre Haute, Ind., Frederick F. Wendholt, Bible salesman for the House of Harmony Co., angrily called police, complained that fellow Bible salesman Robert L. Allaman had assaulted him and tried to throw him out of the Filbeck Hotel in an effort to muscle in on his territory.

Sharp as Attack. In Binghamton, N.Y., the day after their proposed pay raise was turned down by the voters, city policemen were particularly sharp, detected 375 traffic violations, compared to the 100 they spot on an average day.

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