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Mon., Sept. 15, 1997

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

Q. What’s a “numeronym”?

A. A telephone number that spells a word.

Count of physical attacks on commercial airplanes has gone up five-fold since 1944. So the travel writers report. Experts looked into it. One said, “Blame it on liquor.” Another said, “Liquor service hasn’t changed. It’s the no-smoking regulation that’s unnerving some passengers.”

At hand is an archived footnote that says Charles Mayo of Mayo medical fame started his career by administering ether during surgery - at age 9. What? Age 9. Check your anesthesiologist’s I.D.

According to a career cosmetologist, it’s the red-haired individual who’s most likely to become bald.

History records that Lyman Dillon plowed a furrow from Iowa City to Dubuque, Iowa, to mark the route of Iowa’s first road - here’s to Lyman, clink! - and mappers labeled it the longest furrow ever plowed.

The cheetah normally kills by strangulation.

Wisconsin’s Mount Horeb Mustard Museum displays the greatest variety of prepared mustards ever assembled. Intensely fascinating to some, I’m told, though beyond the interest of the average hot-dogger.

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