TV Radio Mirror (Jan - Jun 1955)

wrong. Maybe it's my fault. Now, why don't you just call him back?" "No," Lucy said. Evelyn got Desi on the line, anyway. Desi hung up. They patched that one up, too. It was more difficult to patch their newspaper troubles. Desi went out twice with Lucy's sister when she came to New York. The columnists neglected to find out who the girl was. They merely printed divorce rumors. At the same time, in Hollywood, Lucy dined once with her sister's husband. The Hollywood stories about the divorce were even more detailed. Another telephone mix-up was the problem of the car. It was right after the war, and Desi was on tour. He had ordered a car as a surprise, and Lucy didn't know about it. She didn't even know how hard it was to get cars that year. Desi had been waiting six months for the car, and it arrived while he was on tour. Lucy took one look at the car and said, "I'm sorry. We can't keep that." "Can't keep it?" the man said, looking at the beautiful red car. "No," she said. "It's the wrong color. It clashes with my hair." "Well," the man said, "you'd better dye your hair." Miss Ball grinned. "I made him take the car back, anyway. And, when Desi called from Chicago the next night, I told him all about it. I won't say that he was unhappy. That would be a mild word for it. He spent the next day on the phone apologizing to the man and trying to get the car back." Miss Ball brought herself back to 1955 and looked up at the sun again. "Those are the things I spent that Christmas thinking about. And, late that night, I came to a decision. You know what that decision was," she said. "Having a career was fun — during the day. But the day ended at six o'clock, and it wasn't fun to go home to an empty house and an empty life. "Believe me," she said, "when I asked for a release from my contract, I didn't know that all this" — her arm drew a circle taking in all the buildings and the stages and the streets that belong to Desilu Productions— "that all this was going to happen. But I didn't care. I had made a choice. And, if I were asked to make the same choice today, I would make it the same way." Lucy smiled again, thinking perhaps of her two children and her husband and their life together. "Luckily," she said, "I'm not asked to choose. We're separated now only by the length of a golf course and" — this time she laughed out loud, looking up at the office where Desi was working — "and, if I'm energetic enough, we're not even separated by that!" 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