Miscellany, may 23, 1955

Cheesecake. In Detroit, meeting to select the Posture Queen of 1955. Michigan chiropractors dutifully pored over dozens of candidates' X rays to find the girl with the best intervertebral fibro-cartilages.

Judgments. In Syracuse. N.Y.. on the same day he received a five-to ten-year prison sentence for taking part in a $12 robbery, Joseph Chappell. 21,_won a $2,100 settlement in an auto-accident lawsuit.

Beyond the Dessert. In Charleston, W.Va., at the gala opening of Woodrum's Tearoom, the proprietors did some rapid table hopping after they discovered that matchbooks placed before each customer bore an advertisement...

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