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The hope chest was filling up and the piggy hank was getting heavy. So Jane Powell and Geary Steffen thought it was about time.
BY IDA Z EI TUN
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e Powell's wedding presents have really piled up. One of most thoroughly used will be a cook book — she loves cookand plans to do it all herself as Mrs. Geary Steffen.
■ By the time you read this — unless something completely unforeseen happens — Jane Powell will have become Mrs. Geary Steffen. When I saw her, the wedding date — November 5 — had been set, she had a rapidly-filling hope chest, a honeymoon piggy bank and there was a shower corning up. She and Geary didn't yet have a house to live in, but that was a mere detail.
"Fields have suddenly opened," said Janie, and her eyes gave off stars.
The fields are for Geary, naturally. She and he have been engaged since January 5th, and he's the one who's held up the wedding. As Sonja Heme's skating partner, he was doing fine. But in Geary's book, you don't get married and leave your wife for weeks while you're on the road. In any case, he'd never intended to make a career of skating.
"You can't," he says. "Ten years from now, your legs won't be so good, and you'll be left with a bunch of nothing."
Strictly speaking, Jane's been ready for marriage almost any time since January 5th. Not Geary. "I won't marry you until I can take care of you."
"But I hate long engagements."
"So do I, honey. Only that's how it's got to be."
It was their one bone of contention. Not that Jane didn't understand his ' ( Continued on page 85)
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