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Television amateurs spend much time panning around their shacks and bragging about their equipment. They also give their audiences lingering shots of the supine fecundities of pinup girls. The squarer ones show off their wives, who used to hang around the shacks in curlers during the old radio days but now sit at their dressing tables for hours before joining their ingenious husbands on TV. Hams are not permitted to present entertainment, but they do show home movies and bring on relatives who play the harmonica, much as Jack Paar and Ed Sullivan do. One San Francisco ham likes...
...their dormitory rooms, provided that they yell "Man on!" as they enter the corridor. "Playing the field," Betty Coed style, is as outdated as the raccoon coat; boys nowadays want "dating security," and since girls want boys, the universal solution is "going with," "going along with," or, in a squarer phrase, "going steady." A boy often signals this understanding by giving a girl his fraternity pin, following up with roses delivered to her sorority house during a candlelight ceremony. Dating security leads at least to the doorstep necking or the kiss before class that sometimes is known as P.D.A.-public...
...Mike Di Salle thinks his new rule will give the honest grocer a squarer deal. Before the Jan. 26 order, many sharpshooters boosted their prices skyhigh, were rewarded when the order froze the prices at that level. By freezing markups instead of prices, OPS hopes to give everyone the same fair chance to make a profit. But there is no hope that food prices will be kept down if farm prices continue to rise. The grocer will simply pass any increased costs to the consumer...
...worked for the Hearst papers for 8 years and never got a squarer deal. ... I was a sap for leaving him. He may never have given a leg man a decent wage, but when it came to hiring advertising men, he had the knack of getting some real producers and he paid them well. .... I only wish I were working...
Handicapped by squarer and wider courts than they have been accustomed to playing on, a fighting Yardling squash team went down to a 3 to 2 defeat Saturday at Concord before the on-slaught of a strong St. Paul's outfit...