The country was given a good look at a fair cross-section of its college co-eds last week. For the first time since 1933, a beauty contest was held among the Big Ten universities of the Midwest. Purdue, Michigan and Indiana refused to let their girls participate, but scouts from Northwestern helped pick, and the promoters of
Northwestern's Charity Ball in Chicago judged, seven "queens" from seven big campuses (see cut). They gave the prize to the most patrician-looking girl of the lotdark-haired, demure Joyce Kerr, 21, daughter of a drygoods merchant in Elmore, Minn....
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