Miscellany

Building Code. In Dallas, coeds at two Southern Methodist University dormitories were urged to stop sunbathing on house balconies because they were causing steelworkers to dawdle on the school's $8,000,000 building program.

Higher Animal. In Washington, Dr. Clarence C. Little, after extensive research in canine psychology, told the National Committee for Traffic Safety that dogs show more intelligence than humans in avoiding the perils of Manhattan's traffic.

Exhibit A. In Youngstown, Ohio, Census Supervisor John Gillespie asked a middle-aged schoolteacher who applied for a census job if she could qualify on good handwriting, was told: "I ought to. I taught you how to write."

Consequences. In Swift Current, Sask., the social committee of the Horse Cooperative Marketing Association, which cans horse meat, had to cancel a sleighing party because it could find no horses to pull the sleighs.

Man of Mettle. In Troy, N.Y., Justice O'Connor suspended Robert Banks's sentence for public intoxication after the defendant confessed to drinking a concoction he called "scrap iron": a blend of sherry, rye and corn liquor.

Air of Success. In Los Angeles, Salesman Harold Martin was acquitted of stealing a high-priced great Dane and a collie after he proved in a close courtroom that the dogs forced their way into his car and refused to leave because his clothes smelled of his product--dog food.

The Men Who Came to Dinner. In Denver, thieves broke into Barbara Klo-berdans' apartment, took $30 cash, $49 worth of clothes, ate some potato salad, drank some Scotch, found varnish and brush in the kitchen cabinet and touched up the door they had splintered to get in.

Bulls'-Eye. In Nogales, Ariz., gun-totin' police signed up for target practice after the chief's eleven-year-old daughter, Bonnie McDonald, won the department's annual pistol shoot.

Call of the Wild. In Nashville, members of Vanderbilt University's Kappa Alpha Order (Southern) eagerly chased what they thought was their deodorized pet skunk, name of General Sherman, learned too late it was another skunk.

Mechanic's Clue. In Bristol, England, George Law recognized an auto stolen from him three years before, despite fake engine and chassis numbers and a new paint job, proved his ownership by pointing out a piece of chewing gum he had once used to patch an oil leak.

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