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...seemed at first like a great idea. A television camera was discreetly installed in the apartment-house lobby. When an apartment owner's bell rang, all he had to do was flip his TV set to Channel 4, and the image of his caller flashed on the screen over a specially installed closed circuit. Thus tenant could have a good look at caller before deciding...
...come home late from a date and the boy wants to kiss you good night in the lobby, you can almost feel all the eyes watching you. It's downright embarrassing." A high point of "lobby observing" (as it is known to the trade) comes when an unwary caller, thinking himself alone, begins to preen and scratch while waiting for the answering buzzer. One tenant regularly warns his caller over the intercom: "Smile, you're on Candid Camera...
...first in a series of Summer School square dances will be held tomorrow at the Union from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. Herb Gadreau will be the caller for Tuesday's dance. Admission is by privilege card only, but holders of cards may bring guests...
...ninth annual Golden State Roundup last week, more than 8,000 square dancers trekked to Oakland's Municipal Auditorium from as far away as Canada and the East Coast. "EIGHT SPIN-AWAY WITH A HALF SASHAY! " honked the caller, and off they went-careening and reeling, wheeling and jumping, into each other's arms and out again while the music sawed and pounded out She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain...
...Strip the Gears." Davis is sufficiently proficient to be a caller. Callers, who command fees ranging from a modest $10 to $150 a night, ring the changes on some 60 calls, with which they keep the dancers on their toes for some 145 beats to the minute, in three "sets" per dance, followed by a short intermission for breath-catching and flirting. The tune can be anything with an air and a beat, better if it is something everybody knows, like Skip to My Lou Gal or Turkey in the Straw, Buffalo Gals or Darling Nellie Gray. The real trick...