Tickle Tiff. Near Mason City, Iowa, a woman killed her husband because he tickled her.

Travel. In The Bronx an eleven-year-old boy returned home from ten-mile-distant Teaneck, N.J., where he said he had walked in his sleep, wakened in a tangle of fishing tackle in a parked car. In Memphis an eleven-year-old runaway from St. Louis, 300 miles away, appeared at his girl friend's home for a date. He brought her a doll. In Camden, N.J., police obeyed the instructions of a twelve-year-old Kansas City runaway's parents who refused to send him the fare home: they released him, told him to hike the 1,100 miles back.

Ears. In Columbus, Ohio, a man reported to police that a stranger in a grill room had bitten off a piece of his ear. In Indianapolis, hospital physicians relieved ten-year-old James Hurt's earache by removing a wad of paper from one ear, a wad of paper, a piece of lead and an eraser from the other.

Squirm. In Pittsburgh, local cootch dancers organized the Oriental Dancers of Pittsburgh, Inc., to fight for better wages.

Plaint. Near Philadelphia, a neighbor of Mrs. Bobbie Ernst sued to subdue her marimba playing, charged she had played it "for more than five years . . . almost daily, approximately six hours a day and until late hours of the night . . . plays Jingle Bells whenever she observes the plaintiff, and Anchors Aweigh when a certain naval officer is in sight."

Failures. In Chicago, a court of law enjoined Steve Kolodiezski from throwing himself under a train. On Manhattan's Bowery elevated tracks, Kenneth Schracder prepared a noose, threatened to hang himself. Pedestrians cheered, urged him on. He jumped through the roof of a police car, was taken away uninjured.

Rebs. In Oregon, Curry County residents aroused by the State's failure to encourage local industry clamored for secession, decided to join California.

Gun Fun. In Evansville, Ind., a grocer and a robber pointed loaded revolvers at each other, pulled and pulled the triggers, clicked and clicked, finally gave up.

In & Out. In Mt. Clemens, Mich., a song-&-dance man was released from jail after the other prisoners complained his routine was getting monotonous. In Minneapolis a man who was tapped on the shoulder by a police officer during a roundup of drunks got into the patrol wagon, went to jail. In court he learned the cop had just wanted to ask him to move out of the way.

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