Monday, Mar. 21, 1960

Milky Way. In Brooklyn, Milkman Pleasant Booker admitted a series of early morning burglaries, insisted that he never robbed a customer.

Research. In Pullman, Wash., the librarian of Washington State University reported the theft of Cheating--How It Can Be Stopped.

Bushwhacked. In Canberra, Australia, a delegation of aborigines complained to the government that plastic, made-in-Japan boomerangs were cutting off their livelihood.

Voting Residence. In San Antonio, when Marie Barnhill, 46, was booked for drunkenness for the 240th time since 1940, police discovered that her only known address was "County Jail."

Understaffed. In Tulsa, Okla., Paper Boy Leon Stagg was told to put the police chief's copy of the World under his office door "to keep detectives from stealing it."

Community Spirits. In Tokyo, a fire broke out in the Immoral Classroom tavern, but was quickly put out after it had destroyed the bar next door, called Tomorrow Is Too Late.

Core Course. In New Hyde Park, N.Y., when Kindergarten Teacher Florence Ann Mostler, 24, got married, 30 of her pupils showed up at the church, each carrying a shiny red apple.

Eye Sore. In Detroit, Private Detective ames Kimble, 37, complained that a thief had broken into his car and stolen his kit containing a magnifying glass, fingerprinting tools, his diploma and badge.

Wedding Bells. In Springfield, Mo., Anna L. Hindman, suing for divorce, charged that her TV-engineer husband wired their bed with an electric "shocking machine" to enforce his edict that four hours of sleep a night is enough.

Wedlocked. In London, John W. Wiseman won a divorce after testifying that his wife had hit him with a pair of fireplace tongs, jabbed him with a knife, thrown boiling water at him, stubbed out a cigarette on his arm, and slapped his mouth with a bunch of keys.

Tryout. In Sun Valley, Calif., Herbert LaFrance, 61, took an overdose of sleeping pills, twice rammed his car into power poles, walked barefoot on the fallen live wires, survived, told police: "I still want to kill myself; I don't know why."

Revival. In Detroit, Giuseppi Peppe Baldinelli, 74, was tagged for drunkenness after he cruised up and down the sidewalk on a bicycle, offering drinks from a wine jug to men entering Salvation Army headquarters.

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