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Show Top-Hat Teen-age TUlie was trying on hats in the store. She picked up a small green felt, adjusted it on her head and began to view herself eagerly eager-ly at all angles in the mirror. "Do you like the hat?" a girl beside her suddenly asked. "It'u a honey," Tlllie ex-claimed. ex-claimed. "It's the new shade of green and," she added, "it's a style you won't see on every Jane and Josie." "Thanks," said the girl. "That's what I wanted to know. It happens to be my hat." B The situation: You have just met Johnny Addlestone and are about to introduce him to a friend of yours. Just as you start, you realize you have already forgotten his rather unusual name. i What will yon do? (a) Change the subject immediately dropping drop-ping the introduction? (b) Say, "I'm sorry, Johnny, but when we were introduced I didn't quite get your last name"? (c) Go on with the introduction in hope that Johnny will fill in the blank when you get stuck? (d) Mumble something some-thing unintelligible for his last name? (e) Say, "This is Johnny. ,l I've just had the pleasure of meeting meet-ing him myself?" The solution: The best way to handle the situation is to use solution solu-tion B. Say that you didn't quite get his name when you were introduced. in-troduced. It's tactful and truthful. No Minors i Because of the hazards involved the United States Department of Labor recently prohibited the employment em-ployment of young people under 18 years old in industries which use by-products from the development devel-opment of atomic energy. Minors previously were not permitted to work where radium or self-luminous compounds were used and the new order extends this bar to all radioactive "isotopes." |