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Gossip's cheap. It comes easy about the Toppings. But they won't let words wreck their marriage.
BY MARJORIE HAYDEN
the people in the portrait at the left (Lana, her daughter Cheryl, and Bob Topping) look as happy and as placid as you'd expect any young, wealthy family to look. But don't let the gossipers hear you say that. Only two years of marriage, and they've built up a case about that lady and her home life. Lana, they say, is going through a crisis. Unless she and her husband solve certain recurring problems, Topping and Turner will part.
Problems? What married couple doesn't have them? Arguments? Sure, the Toppings have a few. If you're not in love your wife can go off and shoot herself, and you won't argue. Otherwise, arguments can happen.
What's the basis for all this gossip? Nothing much. A rumor printed, a comment overheard, reports of a sudden cancellation of a trip to Japan, reports of a stormy quarrel in Mexico . . .
It isn't nice to delve into the privacy of anyone's married life. It isn't polite, and besides, you come up with all kinds of ridiculous stories — like the one a radio commentator told recently. Lana, he said, received a black eye as a gift from Bob. Actually, Lana hasn't had a black eye since she fell down the cellar steps when she was eight years old.
Well, let's delve a little ourselves to get nearer the truth. To begin with, .Lana married Bob Topping after a very brief courtship. Too brief, say the gossipers, she had to combine the courtship and the honeymoon and the first year adjustments to marriage. That's too much of a challenge.
It's a challenge, all right, but other women have met it, so did Lana. It's pretty rare to find a young wife who, during the first two years of marriage, hasn't asked herself, "Why did I do it? — Does he love me? — Do I love him?" By noon the (Continued on page 74)