Word: milgrim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...board, Steve Milgrim, 45, one of the founding fathers of computer dating and president of Operation Match (230,000 marriages in 4½ years is his claim), confirms the depressing visual evidence and goes into his pitch. "Singles," he recites, "are not just in their 20s, but in their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and even 70s. Many of them have no interest in marriage, or in sex either, for that matter. Many are not even essentially lonely. What they are, most of them, is simply trapped in their own whirlpool. They go to work in the morning and come home...
Crushed Expectancy. Next afternoon, the crowd gathered in the Zebra Room for the "Operation Match get-together" looks like a sampling from the line outside Radio City Music Hall. Much of the previous evening's frenzy has spent itself. The room is quiet as Milgrim begins his spiel. "A lot of you won't believe this," he says, "but within twelve months' time seven or eight percent of the people in this room will be married to someone they met on this cruise." When the self-conscious laughter subsides, he explains that "because of the small sample...
...hold hands on deck chairs in the warming sun. A dozen small parties erupt spontaneously in a dozen staterooms. A haggard haberdasher from Baltimore stumbles out of his cabin, glass in hand, looking for ice. "Whew," he says. "She needs two 20-year-olds-not one 40-year-old." Milgrim adopts a literary tone: "Liaisons are being formed and torn asunder faster than you can light a cigarette...
...names-one is a chief of police, here with his mistress or possibly unknown wife not united in marriage by his church . . . These men I accuse of operating a white slave ring. I want them taken to task. I am my own boss." A wild-eyed Denver merchant corners Milgrim in a hallway and through clenched teeth mutters, "Don't think I don't know what's going on here. The filth, the filth." A legal secretary from Long Island expresses her distaste for Greek cuisine by insisting upon ham sandwiches and malted milks, and one cynic...
...there comes the realization that for most of the 340 women and 312 men who paid their money and took their chances, the trip has satisfied their expectations, if not their wildest hopes. Putting it in practical terms, Milgrim points out that "for most singles, a date with anyone is better than staying at home." More piously, he adds: "You bring some happiness to some people, the whole thing becomes worthwhile." At $10 a head for his computer service ashore, and a percentage of the gross receipts afloat, very worthwhile indeed...