In a contest held at Palm Beach's swank Colony Club, the leading contender for the title of "Glamor Girl of Palm Beach" was 17-year-old Cobina Wright Jr., Manhattan cafe society songstress. Judges were Photographer Hal Phyfe and Illustrator James Montgomery Flagg. After an argument with his fellow judge, Flagg huffed: "I have a vote, but it is not for Miss Cobina Wright. However, I will turn my vote over to Phyfe, and he can make the choice." Phyfe promptly chose Cobina Wright. Next day Illustrator Flagg saw her on the beach in a one-piece bathing suit. Dazzled, he begged & received her pardon, ordered a new pair of glasses for night wear.

Photographer George William Harris, founder of Harris & Ewing, veteran Washington, D. C. photographers, reminisced that Alice Roosevelt Longworth is the most photographed woman in his collection, Calvin Coolidge the most photographed President and "the best dresser that ever came to Washington."

Dr. Frederick Waite, Western Reserve professor of histology and embryology, declared after much study that Paul Revere (though he has generally been blamed) could not possibly have made George Washington's famed, unmanageable dental plates. Reason: Washington had the plates before Revere's dental teacher came to the U. S. from Great Britain. Actual culprit: John Greenwood, Washington's personal dentist.

After seeing the preview of a cinema called Honolulu (TIME, Feb. 20), Manhattan members of the Hawaiian Society got up on their ear, condemned in no wavy way Cinema Tap Dancer Eleanor Powell's version of the hula-hula. Fumed the Society's president: "In the true hula the dancer waves her hands to indicate a fish. She moves her hands to her eyes to indicate eyes. . . . There are many sorts of hulas, including epic hulas. There can even be frivolous or comic hulas. But Miss Powell's is not any of them. It is a serious mistake and an insult to confuse the hula-hula with the hootchy-kootchy." Asked whether the body was moved at all, another member coldly replied: "It's the sinews that move."

Famed oldtime Pitcher "Cy" Young, now Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, in Ohio's Senate, was annoyed to find himself listed on baseball's "Scroll of Fame" as Denton Tecumseh Young. His real middle name: True.

Last year Manhattan's Columbia College seniors chose Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll as the woman with whom they would most like to be cast away on a desert island. Their scholarly reason: her ability to speak French. This year's senior class chose exotic Hedy Lamarr (nee Hedy Kiesler), made no excuses.

Major John Waller Hills, 71, famed British economist, was slated for a baronetcy on King George's New Year's Honors List, but died a few days before it could be conferred. After a tactful interval, the King gave the title to Major Hills's five-year-old son. When his mother told him of his new rank, Sir Andrew Ashton Waller Hills asked: "Is it something nice to eat?"

To the Australian Bush Fire Relief Fund the Duke of Windsor sent -L-10 and a sympathetic thought: "Life is hard enough in these times without the added tribulation of bush fires."

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