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Ann Landers9 Advice it No Kisses And 16 Dates lllli i tgfM illirftr 'IW i if 36 Akron Beacon Journal Thursday, July 14, 1960 i DEAR ANN LANDERS: I'm a boy 17 who has never had much trouble socially, Whenever I wanted to go Dear Former: You are right. I DO have plenty of stamped envelopes lying around and they are worthless because they are addressed to Ann Landers instead of to the person who wants the advice. It's amazing how many people make this mistake. I say that a train "slows down" and "slows witn a girl I went with her, and that's all there was to It. Four months ago a new chick moved town and I liked her looks from the minute I saw her.

By BERT BACHAEACH MAY I BE the first to remind you that there are only about 140 shopping days before Teenage lads know it's milk. Should we say "Please pass the milk?" Or, should we let her think she's putting one over and say pass the cream?" HER FRIENDS. Dear Friends: Now THIS is a problem! Maybe the hostess is serving milk Instead of cream because you dames are too heavy and she's politely helping you count your calories. Why not say, "Please pass the pitcher?" DEAR ANN: You are a fake. I wrote you twice and you didn't answer.

Both times I enclosed a stamped envelope addressed to Ann Landers. I'll bet you have plenty of stamped envelopes lying around. I dare you to print this. FORMER FAN WANT to kiss him goodnight. Please don't misunderstand.

I don't want to make an evening of pawing and necking. I just think after all these dates a kiss Is not out of order. Shall 'I have a talk with her or just break off? DO LITTLE. Dear Mr. Do Little: I'll reply to your question bv playing back part of your own letter: "If, after 1C dates, a girl has any feeling for a boy she would not have to be asked.

She would want to kiss him goodnight." DEAR ANN: If you were in my place, what would you say? A certain woman in our club always serves milk instead of cream. We all To learn how to keep your boy friend in line without losing him, send for ANN LANDERS' booklet, "Necking and Petting And How Far to Co," enclosing with your request 25 cents In coin and a large, self-addressed, stamped envelope. Ann Landers will be glad to help you with your problems. Send them to her in care of the Beacon Journal, Akron" 9, enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope. have devised a new trick.

Some have been sneaking their dates into drive-in theaters by hiding the girl friend in the trunk of the car! (A little hot, maybe but The King of Thailand is also known as "Brother of the Moon" and "Possessor of the Four and Twenty As They Were: Nelson Eddy was a baseball columnist in Phil 1vf her Ann Landers out 16 times and have not been able to get even a goodnight kiss out of her. I've never asked her for a reason, because I feel ii, after 16 dates, a girl has any feeling for a boy she would not have to be talked into anything. She would RESEARCH ON Conan Doyle's 'The Lost World," just made into a film, re veals that he hated the character Sherlock Holmes, once killed him off In a book but had to bring him back because of public demand or groin aches can often be traced to a hard callous on the ball of the foot. how many potential flowers you'd get from a pound of petunia seeds? You'd get four million plants with many blooms on Men: If you lose a button from the sleeve of a jacket, and haven't another to match, just trim one off the other sleeve. Three or two buttons per sleeve are just as correct and just as Note from Rome, "Italian beatniks are drinking American coffee!" Tip: When shopping out of the country, do this before you buy: visualize how the item will look in your home town, away from the foreign glamor and color.

Then decide. I Bacharach adelphia before he became a singer. And comedian Jack Douglas once worked as a gorilla in one of the Olsen Johnson Try to explain to a foreigner that we mean the same thing when we Back In Pictures PUZZLEMENT: Why will a girl blush furiously if her skirt blows above her knees and then spend the next day on Woman Of Mystery? Not Anna May Wong a beacn wearing a Robert Q. Lewis says he knows a girl who is so unpopular she can take a bath and i ijm the phone won't I cannot explain It but a top language school says the most useful words to learn in any foreign By GAY PAULEY NEW YORK (UPD Anna May Wong built a movie career playing women of mystery and intrigue. But in person, there is no more candid soul around than this Chinese actress who quit films 17 years ago, and now is back before the cameras "because I found if you don't practice the talent God gives you, it starves to death." language are "look" and "no you know that the only coffee raised in the United States grows In Hawaii-.

of the recipes in Jennie Grossinger's 'The Art of Jewish Cooking" is Chicken Cantonese Interview: An ace TV repairman, "You'll get a better picture on your set if you lower the rabbit ears antenna when watching the high numbered channels." HELPFUL HINTS: A dull overcast day Is best for washing house and car windows. Sunshine drys sudsy water so quickly that streaks may be left on the Put a layer of gravel on top of windox boxes to Drevent rain from snat. A whole new generation has grown up since Miss Wong, daughter of a Los Angeles laundryman, went slinking her way through a series of hits. But the tion with her comeback movie. It is Universal-International's "Portrait in Black," a suspense drama in which she plays Lana Turner's enigmatic housekeeper.

She has another picture with Barbara Stanwyck scheduled for Fall release. if JJf 1 own-eyed actress has changed little from the days when producers put her in tering dirt on Most corrosion on outdoor aluminum furniture can be LAX- 'jpyF 4 because there were fewer roles and because she was typed, but "because I was tired and I wanted some time to decide why I was on this merry-go-round." Retirement didn't mean inactivity although Miss Wong confessed "I was born lazy." She went to China in 1936 and spent a year studying the culture and language of her grandparents' home-land they had migrated to California from a village near Canton. She returned to make a lecture tour, talking about China to girls' schools and women's club groups. During World War II, she devoted all her time to the USO and United China Relief. The actress was still In her teens when she made her first box-office hit with Douglas Fairbanks in "The Thief of Bagdad," a silent of 1924.

Her top hit in sound films was in "Shanghi Express" with Marlene Dietrich. Miss Wong was one of Hollywood's first "international" stars. After "Thief," she went to England, starred in three films and appeared on a London stage with Oriental costume and had her sing-song her way KING OF THAILAND of the Moon" removed if rubbed with a damp steel-wool soap pad. through her lines. MISS WONG said she retired from the movies, not SHE WEIGHS the same now as then 128 pounds.

And no gray shows In the own Qhisji sleek, black page boy hairdo with a scattering of bangs. She also tells her age she's 53 a rare confession among By CRAIG WILSON Beacon Journal Religion Writer Perhaps this is an awful admission for a religion writer to make, but I do not attend church. All my visits to churches, synagogues female movie stars. "I thought they'd better put my birthday in my biog I wwsawM and religious institutions In the locf 012. V.

iuu, 14 JCOia 1,11 ml. raphy," she laughed. didn't want people thinking I was so old I had to come Most are surprised to find I have none. Most of them invite me to attend their houses of worship. One gracious lady evangelist promised to bake me a cake.

Another sang hymns to me over the telephone regularly for months. I've found clergy and laymen quite willing to sit down and explain their religious beliefs, theirs customs and their church organizations. In fact, I've been struck by the degree of pride church people take in telling of their activities. NEWS COVERAGE of religion is changing, at least in metropolitan newspapers, under the guidance of enlightened editors, with assists from the Reli- on the set in a wheelchair." Miss Wong came to New York recently to shop, espe cially for some custom-made mis assignment nave been purely on business. There's no rule here saying I must be a church-goer.

Occasionally I am referred to as the "religious" writer. Then I have to explain that there are many other BJ reporters far more "religious" than I am and that my hats to Ed with her cninese- 1 -4 IP' bi i in i ml H'f i style wardrobe, and to make ANNA MAY WONG tells her age I some appearances in connec LJEL-j I Wilson A Cnppy Dick Conlosf West Berlin leather hat, position is religion writer. The editors who assigned me to the I religion beat didn't consult me as to my above, resembles a medicine ball with a fast leak. Mrs. Annie Gurrett won a contest How Many Melon Seeds? In Hamilton, Bermuda, with religious beliers or lack of them.

If they had, I would have had to explain simply that I am the kind of person usually referred to by religionists and rightly so as a "religious any way you consider neat a leafy Item, below. Ingredi and attractive. Laurence Olivier. She starred in Europe's first talking picture, "Haitang," made in Vienna in 1929. Paramount brought her back to the United States and her last movie was "Lady from Chungking" In 1942.

THE ACTRESS explained she tried for variety in her career, so audiences wouldn't tire of her. 'My mother taught me, 'Don't be photographed too much or you'll lose your she said. "She meant that you can't call your life your own if you're always before the public." Miss Wong lives In a comfortable, but not osten-' tatious home in Santa Monica, "near enough the beach for me to swim if I weren't scared of the water." She has never married and "and I doubt if I ever will at this late day," she smiled. "I'm too set in my ways." Beneath the picture print ents are cabbage leaves, po tato roses and carrot curls. the number of seeds you counted.

Also print your Town Crier Kenneth Nichols la on vacation. i gious Newswriters' Association (RNA) and a few schools of journalism that have set up courses in religion writing. Now the emphasis Is on stories which have human interest value to persons of all faiths or even no faith at all. "In pursuing stories of this kind, I can at least be clinically unbiased," I once suggested to an elderly Baptist -clergyman. He mulled over my words for a moment and replied: "Well, that may be good for the reli- gion writer, but that ain't good for the religion writer HIMSELF!" Perhaps I've just cut my journalistic Ihroat by explaining all this.

Go ahead, I write a protest letter tol the editor if fou wish. But I enjoy my job and I hope I can hang onto it for awhile. name, age and address. The last thing to do is ad dress your contest entry to Cappy Dick at the Akron Beacon Journal, Akron 9, and mail it before midnight I RECEIVED NO formal religious training as a child. I did attend church services a few times but the proceedings were not familiar to me and I found it difficult to maintain wakefulness.

When I began on this assignment, I thought an Old Testament was merely a second hand one. Occasionally my interviews with ministers end up with them questioning me about my own religious allegiance. Saturday. ALL ENTRIES will be ex amined by the contest judges to find the 10 correct ones WANT TO WIN a Hand Buzzer? Here's your chance, boys and girls'. A hand buzzer is a small, metal device which you easily conceal in the palm of your hand.

When you shake hands with someone, the buzzer will be activated-much to the surprise of your friend! Ten hand buzzers will be given away as the prizes in today's contest. To enter and see if you can become one of the winners, all you have to do is correctly count the watermelon seeds in the adjoining picture and send your contest entry to me. THE WINNERS of the hand buzzers will be the boys and girls who not only have counted the seeds correctly, but have prepared the neatest and most attractive entries. One of these winners may easily be you! that are the most neatly pre vis 1 vf 4 mm pared. The hand buzzers (and what fun they are!) (jJindisdl will be awarded to the boys Largest Industry and girls who sent those 10.

Names and addresses of the winners will be published here and their hand buzzers NEW YORK Man About Town: Millionaire Raymond Guest, recently melted, will next marry Princess Caroline Murat Construction is the largest of the U. S. industries, accounting for 15 per cent of the nation's total employment either directly or will be sent to their homes by mail. Get busy right away counting the seeds. When you are sure you have missed none, clip the picture out and paste it on a sheet of paper or a postal card.

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