The April 20 Radcliffe News also ran an editorial on the subject.

"The age of chivalry is dead, we realize," the editorial read. "Instead of coming to the defense of Harvard's women students, The Harvard Crimson...not only turned its back but slung a good right."

Radcliffe refused to send any representatives to the Lampoon's competition.

Janice Rowley '46, the editor of the Radcliffe News, announced that neither Radcliffe nor many other women's college papers would respond.

Expecting dozens of women to sign up for the preliminary competition, the Lampoon found itself rejected or ignored by nearly all the women's schools it contacted.

Nearly one week after the request for contestants was mailed, only one school had responded and others had made a point of rejecting the request.

Wellesley's news editor, Mary E. Hurff, said the school also would not participate and referred to the event as a "degenerate, pulchritude tilt."

Desperate for contestants, the Lampoon stretched its definition of college to include modeling schools.

In fact, only one of the six women contestants was enrolled in an academic institution: June Miller of Pembroke College.

By the time of the competition, the Lampoon had decided that Miller would be its number-one contestant.

The winner of the competition may remain a mystery, as no further record of the event after May 18 has been found and alumni interviewed did not recall the outcome.

But in the end, there was no real competition between Radcliffe and Wellesley over Harvard men.

Few Harvard men were around, and those who were found it very difficult to get to Wellesley because of the scarcity of automobile gas.

As Cecily C. Selby '46 said, "We had the men, and they didn't."