Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

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Jimmy Clanton: I went steady when I was seventeen with a home-town girl, and I wanted to marry her. In fact, we rented a two-room apartment for $65 a month, furnished, and we had planned to elope because my parents did not like her and did not want me to marry. We broke up when she objected to my pushing my career as a musician and singer. When I told my father about the bust-up of our year-long romance, he said he was glad and reminded me, "You've got a career in music at stake, and you've got plenty of time for marriage." I'll be twenty next June 20th, and I'm glad I went steady, but I'm even more glad I didn't marry then. Now I'm dating a nineteen-year-old brunette who looks like Diana Dors. A great gal. Dick Caruso: Yes, I've steady dated, but with poor results. When I was five, I was in love with Roberta, also five, who lived next door until we were nine. And then my family moved away. Then there was Barbara, my steady when I was fourteen. She left me for another guy, and I was so bitter I ate too much and got fat, and refused to talk to my friends. I sulked and practiced piano and wrote love songs, one of them being I'll Tell You (Continued on page 62)