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Oozing unctuous concern for the plight of dateless girls, a group of Princeton men last fall published Where the Girls Are, a guide to the delights of dating at Eastern women's colleges. Last week, for their pains, they got back a stiletto of witticism called Where the Boys Are, researched by girls at Smith and Mount Holyoke and written by two male turncoats at Amherst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: What Every Girl Should Know | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

...while idly surfboarding at Malibu, Gidget and her girl friends get to talking about a trip to Rome. But go to Rome without boys? A girl would as soon go dateless to a drive-in. So Gidget gets Moondoggie, her beach-bum boy friend, to line up a couple of blind dates for her chums. Quicker than one can say Alitalia the adolescent sextet is scampering down the Spanish Steps, posing for gag snapshots in front of St. Peter's, twisting in the Baths of Caracalla. "Pinch me," says Gidget. Someone does, and she knows she is really, truly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Surf Boredom | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

Girls would welcome this service either on dateless Saturday, when the dorms are always too noisy, or for study-dates, according to Helen S. Garvy '64, chief organizer of the new reform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffes Request Open Library for Saturday Night Studying | 11/18/1961 | See Source »

Other praise was less pronounced. One member thought the music was "great for snowing dates," but he admitted that he had been dateless last Friday. His companion noted that record players placed in barns cause hens to lay more eggs, but he was unsure what the corresponding effect might be in Kirkland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Music With Your Meal' Causes Minor Discord in Kirkland House | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Bogart finds himself dateless on the big Princeton weekend and is drinking his way through to Monday when Diana-Sue arrives, a girl with flexible morals and eager glands. Bogard's friends, sports all, treat their visiting nymph to liquor, grain alcohol, benzedrine, and then exercise her in a "gangbang." Thus even sex becomes organized for the IBM generation...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: The 'Apathetic Generation' | 10/9/1958 | See Source »

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