Radio: Hopper’s Whopper

Hedda Hopper’s hat contest was a crowning success. For five weeks, on Tom Breneman’s Breakfast in Hollywood (ABC, Mon.-Fri.,11 a.m., E.S.T.), heady Hedda asked for amateur hat designs, soon had 65,000 entries on hand. This week, with the same girlish glee with which she writes her Hollywood gossip column, Hedda announced the 103 win ners.

Top hats: 1) A crystal plastic job, trimmed with red flowers and green plastic leaves, tied together with red wool; designed by Mrs. G. Burleigh Drummond, Oak Ridge, Ill.

2) A dark blue felt, trimmed with 10,000 burnt matches, struck off by Mrs.

Minnie M. Ransom, Philadelphia.

3) A fawn-colored chamois skin, tacked to a brim with fourpenny nails, by Mrs. J. W. Springer, Robinson, Ill.

Spared the sight of women’s hats, the nation’s blind thought the hat hunt a whopping success: the 65,000 entries will be auctioned to aid the Braille Institute of America.