When a date stands you up, never give her another tumble, though her alibi about rushing her sick mamma to the hospital or getting an emergency call from the casting office sounded bullet-proof. What undoubtedly happened was that her secret heart throb got back in town unexpectedly. When you book a babe, have her meet you wherever you'll be. Only chumps wait for dames at stage doors or pick them up at their hotels. Don't be one. * * * * * WARNING: Do not start fights in night clubs. If you think you have a legitimate beef, take your complaint to the manager. If he won't listen to you, the cops or your lawyer will. But don't start swinging. You can't win even if you are a football player, a pug, or pack a rod. You can't whip a bartender who swings a bung-starter. If you can, there's a heavy-handed bouncer, a couple of captains and a wedge of waiters waiting to show you who's boss. If they keep hands off, they'll slip you a mickey finn--and you'll wish you had never been born. 17. GLAMOR PUSSES New York has the most beautiful bimbos on earth, and it will amuse you to learn few of them come from New York. The authors know the buying power of their territory, and one of their ways of paying their rent is selling books. Yet, slaves to the verities, they must say--sadly, it is true--that if you want a rollicking time with a tootsie, avoid the Bronx and Brooklyn entries. That is, of course, a generalization. There MAY be some pretty home-grown ones. But we can't find any. Don't say we haven't tried. In the interests of science, natch, we have pursued research. But when we find one worth intensive study, we find she's from Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, Georgia, California or Quebec. Canadian chicks can be fun. But the gals who do best, and by "best" we mean what gals do best, usually come from below the Mason and Dixon line. The proportion of pretty out-of-towners is higher than the home-bred, because New York gets the pick of the crop from everywhere else. The homely ones stay home, marry the neighbor's son and raise pigs, chickens and brats. The pretty pigeons get fed up on louts in lumber-jackets and hit out for Life. So the imports are pretty, whereas the home output is pretty merely in the normal proportion, which is low. It is worth noting that, once a doll gets the title of Glamor Puss, it adheres to her for life, a-la a British order of knighthood. Some of our more famous GPs are long past the age of consent, yet they continue to make front pages, collect husbands or boy friends and costly gifts. An example is Peggy Hopkins Joyce, born Margaret Upton, daughter of a Virginia barber, who recently acquired a seventh spouse and who is working on her eighth. She long carried on a highly publicized feud with Mabel Boll, so-called "Queen of Diamonds," daughter of a Rochester pub-keeper, on the dimensions of their gem collections.