The Easiest Way. In New Orleans, Betty Ferling, 32, admitting to police that she had been married five times and divorced only once, explained: "It was so easy to do, when everyone cooperated."

Springtime. In Oklahoma City, Leroy Thurman helped open up a case of compressed bedsprings, didn't jump fast enough, hit the ceiling, landed in the hospital.

Signal. In Los Angeles, Barbara Brod put a hand out of her car window to signal a left turn, attracted the attention of a gunman who jumped on the running board and relieved her of a $3,000 diamond ring.

Pique. In Chicago, Elmer Miller, annoyed at not finding a seat on a suburban train, vengefully uncoupled the coaches from the engine, ended up in jail.

Enough. In Los Angeles, Estelle Carter Taylor, 38, charged with passing bad checks, hired a lawyer, who dropped the case when the check for his retainer came back marked "no bank."

Campaign. In Fort Worth, a landlord was fined $1,000 for trying to oust a tenant by decorating his apartment door with placards: "Ward for Unwed Mothers," "Venereal Disease Ward for Women."

Stitch in Time. In Los Angeles, deputy sheriffs rummaged purposefully through an automobile wreck for 20 minutes, found is-year-old Esther Yvonne Brooks's severed nose, rushed to the hospital, where waiting doctors sewed it back on.

Swift Completion. In Washington, the Interior Department mailed a penny postcard to a man in nonexistent "Harrisia," N.J., got it back 56 years later. In Yonkers, N.Y., repairmen found a bundle of postmarked, undelivered letters in the railroad station, turned them over to the postoffice for delivery--17 years after they were mailed.

Animal Lover. In Kroonstad, South Africa, a native who was fined five shillings for stealing a cat explained to the court that he was crazy about tabbies: they were his favorite dish.

For Luck. In Oakland, Calif., Miswald Cends Wrandvakist, 50, assured the court that his name was "unlucky," asked permission to change it to Linkols Dislgrowels Wrandvausgilmolkets.

Epitaph. In Bogota, Colombia, the newspaper El Tiempo, deploring the Texas City disaster, editorialized: "Texas, an important city of the U.S., was completely destroyed by a fearful fire. Nothing remains of Texas, the cradle of all the cowboys of the screen."

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