It opened with a sit-down dinner for all and a cocktail party following.

Larry watched each woman as she ate. Immediately he targeted two as not possibles, so selected those as his first one-on-one conversations. The process of elimination, he found, was the always the best way to go. Still, he looked for some saving grace in each female.

After talking with the two, he picked three more and then went on through all couple dozen plus one.