nose. He gave up and went to hos-
pital—to find that the latest blow
had knocked his nose back in shape.
He went home while he was ahead.

In Pasadena, Calif., three-year-old
Sharlyn Burns decided to play nurse,
tried to take her own temperature,
used a weather thermometer, bit off
the bulb and swallowed some of the
fluid. Her condition, after sudden
squalls and use of a stomach pump,
was reported as fair but unsettled,
with rising mercury.

Every mere male motorist will
know just how Attendant William
Wardley felt the day a lovely lady
drove her big, flashy car briskly into
his filling station in San Francisco.
Her bumper caught a pop stand, and
bottles went flying. She then hit an
oil display and a tire rack, dispersing
oil cans and tires galore. “Then she
ploughed into two gas pumps and
knocked them flat. She then drove
briskly away with a cheery “hello”
to the dazed attendant.

HILARIOUS SARETY LESSON

Two hundred school children in
Detroit got a safety lesson the unex-
pected, hilarious way when three
policemen teamed up to prove to the
kids that even the law can look a
little silly at times. Our policeman
was steering a stolen car he and his
partner had spotted and were taking

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to the police garage. His partner
rode in the police car, pushing the
stolen car. The third policeman—
Patrolman Joseph Barath — was
directing the school children safely
across the street when he saw the
police caravan bearing down on
them. He waved his charges back
to safety, but couldn’t quite make
it himself. He was knocked flat.
Nothing was hurt but his pride, but
the disillusioned youngsters won-
dered if policemen always talk to
each other like that.

It can happen to firemen, too. In
Atlanta the fire department was
showing 500 school children just
what to do in case of fire. They
gathered the youngsters around a
seven-storey training tower, unloosed
the smoke bombs and went into ac-
tion. The kids shrieked with excite-
ment. They shrieked even louder
when fire wagons dashed up with
sirens wailing. They were slightly
confused when the embarrassed fire
department carried seven of its men
from the training tower to the hos-
pital, overcome by smoke.

In Bridgeport, Conn., a box of
cookies set fire to a house at 153
Charles Street. How? Well, the
box toppled from a kitchen shelf
onto the handle of a water faucet,
turning on the water. The cookies
spilled and clogged the drain. “The
sink overflowed, the water seeped
through the floor, a short circuit re-
sulted and fire broke out.

Too TRIUMPHANT

And in Chicago Warren Oakes
played the winning card in a gin
rummy game with so triumphant a
flourish he broke his wrist.

Aerodynamic engineers might
check into what happened in Bright-
on, N.Y., when an auto driven by
Raymond Boyle ran head on into a
snowplough. What happened was
that the auto used the blade of the
plough as a ramp, took off, gained
altitude rapidly, leveled off at 12
feet, sideswiped a telephone pole at
that height, made a four-point land-
ing and taxied to a halt 81 feet from
the point of flight. In repairing the
car, Mr. Boyle decided to reject sug-
gestions from awestruck friends that
he pressurize the cabin of the car for
future flights.

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that makes for temperament. So no
one was too surprised when the gun
in “Annie Get Your Gun”’ refused to
fire at the proper moment during a
performance at Birmingham, Ala.
Two stage managers and a stage-hand
took the sulky rifle backstage to rea-
son with it. It promptly exploded,
sending them all to the hospital.
They agreed unanimously that from
then on Annie could not only get her
gun, but keep it.

In Bath, England, the vicar of
Priston Church had an experience
that really was a bellringer. When
the Rev. J. E. Williams pulled on
the bellrope he didn’t know that the
stay which prevents the bell from
revolving was broken. So round and
round went the bell and up and
up went the vicar. At 20 feet he
let go. He was taken to the hospital
with cuts and bruises and complain-
ing of a ringing in his ears.

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