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the one who included scholarships, thus encouraging college kids to participate. The contest had started out with just girls in bathing suits, mostly professional models, showing as much of themselves as they dared. Life had been barred by Miss Slaughter because the year before they had dared to kid the Miss America contest. So Life was barred, but their man came down anyhow. His name was Sorel Hillman, and he did the amusement section of Time. He came to me and said, “Can't you get me in?" Miss Slaughter and I were good friends by this time, and I talked her into letting him come in to cover the thing so Life and Time were now acceptable.

We were sitting on the beach Saturday morning, the morning of the finals, and all of us were taking the sun and swimming. Hillman was with us. A bevy of the girls came by, all being shepherded by their chaperons, and went swimming. There were about a dozen of them--all mighty attractive little girls. We made appropriate comments--all private conversation. Hillman had told us how one girl had gotten herself on the cover of Life magazine--a rather interesting story. Somebody else was joking about the way they all were chaperoned, flanked by a motorcycle cop and a local chaperon and their mothers, who all came with them. I said, “That's all very interesting. I wonder how many of them are virgins when they come here.” Moss Hart said, “We're all out of our minds to be doing this, of course, working so hard at this.”

Hillman put the whole dialogue into his story in Time