Chinese Homer. In North Little Rock, Ark., Yee Yim Hong got permission from a court to Americanize his name, changed it to Yim Hong Yee.

Decalog Rolling. In Escanaba, Mich., three teen-agers broke into a school, stole $71, embarked on a spending spree by going to an advanced-price movie, swiftly returned the remaining money after seeing The Ten Commandments.

From the Grill. In Lourenc,o Marques, Mozambique, a hippopotamus clopped into a gas station, thunderously knocked over empty oil drums, hit the road, chewed $200 damage out of a passing car.

Who's in Back? In Memphis, suspicious police stopped Motorist Christopher Herman Westbrooks, found that he was using eight rear-view mirrors, all stolen.

Errer. In Canandaigua, N.Y., an elementary school sent off a silver cup to be engraved for the winner of the annual spelling bee, got it back bearing the spelling "Elemantary."

Counterpoint. In Athens, Greece, guitar-plunking street-corner singers ignored angry shouts from sleepy citizens, continued their serenade until accomplices had looted two neighborhood shops.

Schnell Bier. In Auerbach, West Germany, a tavern owner got a letter from the United States containing 6-c- from a tourist who said he had forgotten to pay for a beer.

Handout. In Cleveland, when Mrs. Ray Maylin stopped for a traffic light and put out her left arm to signal a turn, a man grabbed it and stripped off $800 worth of jewelry.

Polly Want a Cocker? In Akron, Hyman Friedman admitted in court that his dogs often run into a neighbor's backyard, but "only because my neighbor's parrot keeps whistling to them to come over."

The Tender Trap. In Chicago, Ronald E. Whitaker stole a billfold from an elderly man, sympathetically complied with the old man's plea that he return it, handed over his own billfold by mistake, wound up with a one-to-three-year prison term after the old man turned it over to police.

The Little Woman. In Sacramento, Ronald Dean Johnson filed suit for annulment of his marriage, charged that his wife 1) said she was 32 but is actually 47, 2) claimed to be a secret federal agent but is actually a dance-hall girl, 3) alleged widowhood although her former husband is alive in Texas, 4) told him about her ten-year-old child but forgot to mention the ones 14 and 15.

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