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Show "Miss the Henry Morgan Show" Radio Comic, Henry Morgan. Presents $5 Million Contest Henry (Here's) Morgan, dean of American curved-stem pipe smokers, today announced for the second time a contest to find the American girl wh o most nearly exemplifies the ideals of his program. As prev iously announced, she will be honored with the title "Miss The Henry Morgan Show." have no closing date. His idea there, he said, was to keep it open until every girl and woman wo-man in America had entered. "That'll give everyone a fair chance." Morgan said there was no hurry about entering the contest con-test and recommended that interested in-terested people seek the advice of a good, competent pessimist before filling out their applications. applica-tions. Entry blanks may be obtained ob-tained on any lightship. "Anybody can win, though," said Morgan. "Applicants will be judged on beauty, charm, grace and appetite. They'll also be examined for nits." it no one enters the contest again this year, the ABC humorist hu-morist warns that he will drop the notion. His discarded as flippant a suggestion that he turns his program's ideals over to a subway psychiatrist for re-evaluation. re-evaluation. "One contest expert told me he believed the program's ideals were too high," explained ra dio's Resputin. He said that was probably the reason no one entered en-tered last year. In line with the president's request for a cost-of-living adjustment, this guy suggested sug-gested a cut-back in my dreams." One or Two Million Dollars In Prizes Morgan said that he had his own ideas as to why so many thousands of contest-hungry girls passed up his competition. "It's easy to figure," he said. "Last year I offered the winner either one or two million dollars. dol-lars. It was up to her to decide. But you know how girls are. Never can make up their minds. That must have been what kept them from entering." This year Morgan promised to get around that difficulty, saying that he would offer the winner a flat five million dollars dol-lars plus the unlimited use his library card. He pointed out a second' flaw in the terms of last year's contest. con-test. "I offered them the money In cold cash," he said. "Well, 1 you know how cold it was. This time the winner is going to get the five million in warm bills." Xo Closing Date With customary aplomb, radio's ra-dio's Rasputin announced that the contest would be open to every girl and woman in the United States. He went on to say that it would be a unique competition, too, in that it would |
