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Called Loan. In Merced, Calif., Burton Idas Dunahoo, 42, rented a screw driver for $1 at a service station, was caught using it to pry open the money box on a soft-drink machine, angrily demanded his money back as police hustled him off to jail.
Ambitious Undertaking. In Merced, Calif., a thief stole a station wagon parked behind the Ivers & Alcorn mortuary, abandoned it hurriedly upon discovering that the large canvas in the back covered a corpse.
Cannibal Country. Explorer Clark was fresh from an OSS career in the Far East when he flew to Peru in 1946, in pursuit of a private postwar plan: he had heard of a man in Lima who had a treasure map. Sure enough, Clark found his man and paid him...
Test Case. In Merced, Calif., after due investigation, the cause of the fire that broke out in Mater Misericordiae Hospital was found to be the pipe wrench left lying on electric wires by workmen who had installed the hospital's automatic fire sprinkling system.
With crops in good shape and the peso at its perkiest in years, Mexico was in fiesta mood for President Miguel Alemán's fourth annual state-of-the-nation message last week. As the President rode to the Chamber of Deputies at the head of a 50...