Rade

In Knoxville, Tenn., Revenuer Sam McKinney, after raiding nine Cocke County stills, received a tearful letter: "In rades made last two weeks you got our forth licker, one forth our pots and barls. So plees let us alone awhile til we get good start again. We want work. Wer ashamd to beg. Wer afrade to steel. We can't starve. So plees let Cocke and Cosby rest 10 days til we get started again."

C. I. O.

In Manhattan, to inform the public that they wanted a closed shop, C. I. O. cleaners & dyers released 500 placarded balloons from Times Square hotel windows.

Boy

In Johannesburg, South Africa, Professor Raymond Dart of the University of the Witwatersrand made a startling report: From the jungle where he had been reared by baboons, white policemen rescued a 12-year-old Negro. The boy could at first make only baboonlike noises. When he learned Afrikaans, he told goggle-eyed Professor Dart': "My food consisted mainly of crickets, ostrich eggs, prickly pears, green mealies and wild honey. . . . While with the baboons I walked on all fours and slept in the bush entirely naked."

Gypsies

In Vienna, the Nazi Press suggested punishment for gypsy fortunetellers, who have taken to wishing their customers: "That you may not be sent to Dachau concentration camp and forced to hew stones." The proposed punishment: send the gypsies to Dachau.

Provoked

In Chicago, Rudolph Spielvogel, whose wife, Erika, wanted a divorce, told the court: "When my wife would provoke me, I would hit and kick myself. Then I would know how much it would have hurt her. . . ." Countered Wife Erika, his aim was sometimes poor: "He swung a pot of hot coffee and struck me with it." She got the divorce.

Bed

In London, Marion Lovell, a onetime chorine who had run to fat, got so mad she bounced up & down on her boardinghouse bed, finally broke it. When her landlady sued her, her solicitor pleaded: "She is rather a heavy woman; she will obviously need a fairly substantial bed." But Bouncer Lovell had to pay.

Phi Beta Kappa

In Cambridge, Mass., 92 years ago, Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa chapter banished liquor from its dinner table, for cause. Last week, saturated with its ice-watery annual banquets, reunioning members unanimously voted to bring liquor back.

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