Trilby at Work. In South Bend, Ind., Tribune Reporter Harry Schaudt apologized to his city editor for his scanty coverage of a Shrine dinner: he had volunteered as a subject for hypnosis, slept soundly through most of the affair.

Power Politics. In Pahokee, Fla., Mayor Lewis Friend explained how he happened to shoot his fellow hunter, Town Councilman D. W. Cunningham, who had selected a tree as a handy observation post: "I mistook his polka-dot shirt for a turkey gobbler."

Bourgeois Weakness. In Budapest, Hungary, after two factory nursery-school directors tried to buy chamber pots at a government store and were told that only unsuitable Japanese flower vases would be available until next year, the trade-union paper Nepszava angrily commented: "The small children of the nursery are in no position at all to wait until January for the pots."

Parlay. In Detroit, after Duane Hunter, n, told how he had run a $30 stake up to $2,805 at the horse races, the judge ordered him to sink all his winnings in U.S. defense bonds.

Safety in Numbers. In Yokohama, Japan, the U.S. Army's Christmas Shopping Service got an order for eight identical evening bags from an infantry private in Korea, with instructions to send them to eight girls in the U.S., along with the message: "I will love you always."

Pause in the Program. In Seattle, 48 years after falling ill with scarlet fever, State-Senator Victor Zednick attended a reunion of the Broadway High School, finally delivered the valedictorian address to the class of '03.

Rock & Rye. In Pekin, 111., Tavern Owner Julius Barnes invited the jury to drinks on the house after it acquitted him of drunkenness, even though five cops swore that Barnes had taken one too many before he tried, with a hammer, chisel and ice tongs, to steal the old City Hall's 800-lb. cornerstone, which was rumored to contain a quart of 1884 whisky.

Matching Ensemble. In Carson City, Nev., after a trusty made off with one of the state prison's red trucks, sold its load of farm equipment, and stopped for several drinks before abandoning it, Warden Arthur Bernard ordered the prison rolling stock repainted with large black & white stripes.

To All, a Good Night. In Milford, Mass., not a creature was stirring in the Red Shutter Restaurant, except someone who journeyed to its Nativity scene, made off with a candle, two angels, a pair of camels, two Wise Men.

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