A calendar of triumphs, defeats and contortions of the human spirit during 1950.

January. In Leavenworth, Kans., a nightclub offered free wrecker service to its motorist patrons.

March.* In Bloomington, Ind., where Indiana University's Chemistry Professor E. E. Campaigne had just announced discovery of a new antihistamine drug to fight the common cold, the professor, his wife and two children came down with colds.

April. In Montgomery, Ala., Marion D. Perry, kept awake by his neighbor's dogs, was fined $10 for sitting on his porch at night, howling back.

May. In Rome, after sleuths of the Gendarmeria took to dressing themselves as American tourists, they had no trouble at all rounding up the Via Veneto's streetwalkers.

June. In San Antonio, Charles M. Dickson withdrew as a candidate for the state legislature, explained that his health would not permit him to go through a "stump-speaking, barbecue-eating, beer-drinking and baby-kissing campaign."

July. In Memphis, Mrs. Louise McCormick, charged with reckless driving, told the court she thought at the time that her uncle was driving the car.

August. In Paris, Justin Roulet was fined 5,000 francs for biting his neighbor's dog.

September. In Norwalk, Ohio, Mrs. E. M. Potter placed a classified advertisement in the Norwalk Reflector-Herald: "Notice to the Curious--Car parked in driveway at 9 Jefferson Sunday belonged to relatives from Akron."

October. In Philadelphia, Clarence J. Malehorn, summoned to testify before a federal grand jury investigating gambling, explained why he did not want to answer several questions: the women on the jury could not be trusted to keep his testimony secret.

November. In Oneonta, Ala., the Blount County grand jury held its half-yearly meeting, made one recommendation: that a better place be provided for the grand jury to meet in.

December. In St. Louis, Artist Michael Chomyk and the City Art Museum disagreed as to whether his new painting, Conflict, should be hung sidewise or topside up.

*TIME dropped the Miscellany column in February, hastily picked it up again in March in response to readers' angry yells.

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