MANNERS & MORALS: The Patent-Leather Kid

MANNERS & MORALS

When a man's hair begins to drop out and his step grows heavy and the 20-year mortgage on his house is half paid—it is then that he feels romance burning in his veins. He may yearn to run off to the Galapagos Islands and rest beneath the palms with the local Liat (native girl in South Pacific), but usually he just starts wearing California sport shirts and loafers. John R. Winter Jr., 40, of Detroit, was a different sort. He went to the Arthur Murray Studio on Livernois Avenue.

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