Audience Participation. In Manhattan, Comedian Jack Carter reported that after his weekly television show he received a letter from a dentist: "I would . . . like to call your attention to a dark spot in your upper bicuspid area . . . May I be of service . . . ?"

In the Family. In Des Moines, Bertha Elizabeth Simmons, asked if she was ready to testify against George James Bell, accused of "embezzling and . . . appropriating" her watch, told the court: "No, your Honor . . . George and I were married last night."

Round Trip. At McPherson, Kans., R. G. Hickman drove his new Oldsmobile across the railroad tracks and was hit by an eastbound train; an hour later, trying to get off the tracks, he was nicked by the westbound.

After Due Consideration. In Florence, S.C., Hattie Johnson and John Perkins decided to make use of the marriage license they took out in 1932.

Q.E.D. In Highland Park, Calif., when Mrs. C. H. Trompeter remarked to one of the bandits who had robbed her of $300 that he looked surprisingly like a professional man, he replied: "I am a professional man, madam ... a professional thief."

See? In St. Louis, Herbert W. Slayden, demonstrating to his wife the hazards of their rope fire escape, suffered a fractured hip when he fell three stories.

Hard Times. In Niteroi, Brazil, a local milkman had a reasonable explanation for housewives who complained they had found tadpoles in the milk: "Normally I water the milk from the fire hydrant. Lately the water shortage has forced me to go to a creek."

The Criminal Mind. In Detroit, police warned citizens to watch their step: someone had stolen seventeen 150-lb. manhole covers.

Specialists. Near Belleville, ILL., 25 Air Force weather experts, all meteorological school graduates, wound up a two-day conference on their specialty, then were marooned overnight at Scott Field because they failed to foresee a snowstorm.

Precept & Example. In Cincinnati, Artist Paul Bogosian, drawing cartoons at a safety show, stepped back to admire his work, fell off the platform. In Watertown, N.Y., Police Sergeant Floyd W. Trickey, on his way to deliver a lecture on "Safety and Accident," dropped the hundred-pound bundle of safety pamphlets he was carrying and cut his hand on the metal binding.

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