Students score on “kissometer.” Fee for a couple’s admission to the Sweetheart’s Ball of the New York State College of Forestry was a kiss. William Mikonis, of Rochester, N.Y., and his date, Joan Cascio, Syracuse University coed from West Hartford, Ct., pay up, while the gadget registers “hot lips.” Top score is “Wow.” Lowest rating suggests the couple “try again.”

Associated Press · [ca. February 1950]

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