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In our age of sophistication, the "me Tarzan, you Jane" approach has no more chance than a minnow in a pool of piranhas. Two seniors have written a pamphlet with a "new fresh approach" telling a man how and where to find the girl of his desires.
The Theory of Mixers, by P. W. Snavely III, alias W. Randolph Thompson '68 and John C. Edmunds '68, reinforces its quasi-scholarly prose with photographs, quantifications, and curve analyses as it details how to pick a mixer, a girl, and a line.
Would-Be Studs
The 36-page stencilled booklet warns "would-be studs" against girls wearing gold crosses, "the cursed circle pin," pleated plaid skirts, and dresses with high collars, all "worn almost exclusively by socially unenlightened girls, i.e., virgins."
"Warm, friendly, mature girls," on the other hand, wear fishnet sweaters, black stockings, and colored underwear, according to Snavely. Other positive factors are very long or very short hair, indicating "that a girl wants to characterize herself as anti-apple pie;" flatchestedness, making a girl tend to "prove her femininity and sexuality however she can;" and coming alone to the mixer, a show "of maturity and self-confidence which her flocking sisters cannot claim."
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