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■ Who would be there to light the candles on the dining room table if Geary should go. . . ? Who would be there to eat all. the food Jane Powell loves to cook; who would toss the salad and brag about it and watch her with adoring eyes, if he should leave, even for just a while?
And he may leave her — he's in the active Army Reserve. Other husbands may go, too, and sweethearts and sons, and for each one left behind there'll be a special cause for sadness.
The six days a month Geary spends down in Long Beach, California, driving half-tracks and heavy tanks have taken on another meaning since Korea. It isn't only routine now. It may become a new way of life. Will he have to go back to what he faced in the winter of 1944? He was a ski-trooper then, in the Fifth Army located in Italy. On one particular day he was assigned to lead a group of twenty-six skiers armed with machine guns and carbines down a steep slope to a German artillery position. The Germans were wiped out, but only three of Geary's group came back alive. Geary was discharged a first lieutenant with a pocketful of battle stars. He's a likely candidate to be called again.
On an evening not (Continued on page 92)
Jane Powell doesn't know
what the future holds. No one does. But if Geary should have to leave, he'll
Jane's a marvelous cook — o fact Geary Steffen would be the last to. deny! He's wild about her singing — buys records of her musicals (latest is Royal Wedding). They have 5000 records.