Americana

P: The manager of Bermuda's Belmont Manor Hotel stiffly requested the U.S. Navy to make the hotel "off bounds" for enlisted men. Rear Admiral Austin K. Doyle, the U.S. commandant, even more stiffly replied that he would put it off bounds for officers too. Said he: "The customs of my country do not permit discrimination between officers and men in public places."

P: A Los Angeles company was manufacturing a brassiere for cows. A canvas affair, constructed with four elongated sacks which cradle a cow's teats, it was invented by a Phoenix, Ariz. psychiatrist. He confidently estimated that it would increase bossy's production from 25 to 35% by aiding the flow of milk into her udder.

P: The patent office granted Edwin W. Helberg of Chicago and Vernon C. Helberg, of Evergreen Park, Ill., a patent on a rapid-fire magazine-loading pea shooter.

P: A Manhattan dealer advertised a "distinctive motor car, the only car of its kind available." Its engine was by Rolls-Royce, its body custom-made by Labourdette of France. Its total cost (in 1947): $44,000. It could be had today, the dealer said, for only $20,000.

P: Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft suggested that retiring Presidents of the U.S. be given substantial pensions, so that they can afford to "accept dignified but often low-paying jobs such as college presidencies."*

P: Miss Helen Dozier Conant, 18, was crowned Queen of Love and Beauty at St. Louis' annual Veiled Prophet Ball. Spectators watched her walk to the throne talking earnestly to her escort, later discovered that she had been reciting the Declaration of Independence to steady her nerves.

P: The Atlanta police department ordered department stores to draw their show-window shades when putting new costumes on dress dummies.

* Senator Taft's father retired from the White House to a professorship at Yale, was later appointed Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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