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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Chase. In Iowa, investigation showed why an Anamosa-Clinton branch line freight train had been consistently running late: its crew had taken to stopping in the country to pot rabbits and quail.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Off Duty. In Columbia, S.C., a car driven by Boseman E. ("Joe") Collins, a professional housewrecker, veered off the road, clipped off the corner of a filling station, smashed the porch of one house, smashed to a stop against the porch of another.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

The Breaking Point. In Salem, Mass., Mrs. Lorraine Feys sued for divorce on grounds that her husband threw knives and a flatiron at her, pushed her down a stairway, struck her across the chest with an ironing board, tried to toss her out of a window. In Waukegan, Ill., Mrs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Undergraduate. In Albany, N.Y., the Franklin Credit School of Roanoke, Va. won a suit against Maurice J. Cleary, sometime student in its correspondence course in the operation of a collection agency, for failure to pay his tuition bill.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Even. In St. Joseph, Mo., when a 17-year-old customer returned to the Townsend and Wall department store to complain that a costly cigarette lighter he had bought was no good, the store retorted that neither was his check (for $124.22).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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