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After Navy service in World War II, I earned a BFA from the Phila. College of Art (now the Univ. of the Arts). I was then recalled to active duty in the Korean War. Following was a 40-year career in public relations, advertising, sales promotion, graphic

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Style & Beauty > Clothing Tips & Advice How to dress appropriately for your age: 2 of 27
Dressing appropriately can be efforts in futility. Throughout most of my 50 working years, I was obliged daily to wear uncomfortable suits, tight-collared shirts and useless bits of cloth called neckties. I didn't like it for me, and I didn't like the fact that I had to be sure every male who reported to me was similarly dre... More..
Style & Beauty > Makeup Are women more attractive without makeup on?: 5 of 65
Forgive me if I'm forced to give a dirty old man answer to the question: they're most attractive without clothes on. Seriously, everyone is most presentable when he or she creates the best possible image of a young, well-groomed, healthy, vigorous person. Although rock stars are a breed of their own, and attract many women, ... More..
Style & Beauty > Clothing Tips & Advice Pull up your pants: Why over-sized jeans look unprofessional: 2 of 16
Looking stupid, saggy and/or menacing has been a clothing plague for the past half century. It started with the beats and hippies of the 50s and 60s. Their style idols were the homeless and the sleep-in-the-streets alcoholics. The young drop-outs proclaimed their reasons were that it gave them a distinctive, anti-social look... More..
Style & Beauty > Style & Beauty (Other) Ways of describing yourself: 1 of 7
The most accurate ways to describe yourself is to do it from various stages of your life. However, as the internet has made necessary for lonely souls, it is best to do it at each stage as if you're trying to impress someone of the opposite sex. Just remember to keep the descriptions as clean as Helium's high editorial stand... More..
Style & Beauty > Tattoos & Piercings The danger of tattoos: 4 of 26
The real danger of getting body pictures is that it merely illustrates your stupidity to everyone who has the misfortune to be forced to look at your self mutilation. Further, it makes obvious a fact you may have been able to keep hidden before you got your first tattoo. That is: you're a blithering idiot! My first and only ... More..
Style & Beauty > Fashion Trends & Styles Should belt-less pants, showing boxers or a whale tail, be banned?: 8 of 50
Of course, government has no right to ban any kind of clothing people choose to wear ... or not. Government should clean up its own act before imposing such rules on the rest of us. Even at the highest levels, we've had examples of unusual trouser practices. A President often conferred with an employee in the Oval Office wit... More..
Style & Beauty > Fashion Trends & Styles Sharp dressed man: Fashion tips for men trying to impress women: 2 of 10
"La donna e mobile" wrote Guiseppi Verdi in "Rigoletto." Roughly translated, it means women change their minds just too damn fast and often. It perfectly describes how they perceive men's clothing. Young women will go to rock concerts and swoon over a bunch of sweaty, hairy howlers who're wearing torn clothing and stomping a... More..
Style & Beauty > Tattoos & Piercings Friendship and honesty tattoos: 2 of 9
If you want to go out and get a tattoo, that's all right with me. But don't expect me to come along, too. I go back a long way with familiarity with tattoos, although I've never been drunk enough to have some guy with a dirty needle puncture my skin. I don't even like it when anyone else, doctor or nurse, with a clean needle... More..
Style & Beauty > Style & Beauty (Other) Is real beauty on the outside or the inside?: 9 of 30
If you ain't got beauty on the outside, no one's gonna take the time and effort to find out if you got it on the inside. This truism seems to have escaped too many of today's teens and the greedy designers who earn their livings making teens look ridiculous. No matter what the shabby styles of today, visible beauty is still ... More..
Style & Beauty > Clothing Tips & Advice Why wearing pajama pants in public is acceptable: 8 of 26
Who gives a rodent's gluteus maximus? If ya wanna wear your PJs in public, just do it! Teen boys trying to imitate gansta rappers wear baggy, oversized pants with the waistline down around the middle of their butts. Teen girls wear peekaboo outfits that expose more skin than a Vegas hooker. So, what could be so wrong with st... More..