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a boy
TJey there . . . hold that crowd back.
We fellows didn’t mean any harm. We were only trying to help you gals when we wrote “Girls, You’re Wonderful, But ...” a while back. That’s no reason for you all getting your pretty young heads storming and coming after me with sharpened hat pins and .38 caliber hair-curlers.
All I did was float around the edges of some conversational sessions, picking up a few words here and there and glueing them together so we could answer that ever-burning question, “Now just what do boys talk about?” You were sure right. It was girls after all . . . But don’t worry, ’cause I’ve been doing a little research on the other side of the fence. No, it’s not a white flag of surrender I’m waving here. It’s my latest batch of notes. Right here in this collection of type I’ve got evidence — and it’s pretty up-to-date — that when the girls gather they have a favorite topic : Boys. And you know what else? This may come as a blow to the fellows, but the girls have been able to find a few rusty spots in that suit of armor we guys wear.
That’s no surprise to you girls, is it? Well, suppose we focus our super -sensitive microphone on some pretty feminine readers and guests at “American Bandstand,” and broadcast some of their top-secret confabs, which sound like this . . .
“Why is it,” Mary Anne Cuff is asking, “that some fellows seem to think they are big shots even when there isn’t anybody around to back them up in their opinion?”
“I was Just thinking that, too,” Marie Murphy chimes in. “Some fellows like to be the center of attraction no matter where they are. They always jump up and try to answer all of the questions in class, even when they’re {Continued on page 86)
by DICK CLARK
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