Yesterday, five hundred men walked out of a steel mill while it was still in operation. A union spokesman said they had to strike while the iron is hot.

There was this millionaire whose only son was run over one day by a steamroller. His obituary referred to him as a compressed heir.

The minister of one particularly small church was his own bookkeeper. His bills were neatly filed away in a box marked: "Due unto others".

After a major earthquake in Northern California, a group of concerned local citizens set up the San Andreas Fund, which only goes to show that some Americans can be generous to a fault.

The State of Missouri has vigorously tried to get some of the other states bordering on the Mississippi River to join in an urgently needed flood control project. The explanation for this action is that Missouri loves company.