Modern Screen (Feb-Dec 1957)

3rand!" Jimmy replied. "I'm going to eat it well. I'm going to keep this baby |r a long time." Jimmy bought a bag full apples, and hopped back into the car. e was raring to go. "Non-stop to Paso obles!" he shouted and jammed down ie accelerator without fastening his safety sit. Blackwells Corners was our last stop. We had been on Highway 466 ever since e went through Bakersfield and now it as deserted. No car except our Spyder id the station wagon as far as we could •e. Jimmy went faster now — a very natull thing to do when you are all alone 1 a good road in a racing car. It was Lst past five in the afternoon. The sun, ball of fire, shone directly in our eyes. was still very hot and the heat nickered id danced on the sandy brown road. To e right and left of us was desert; in front us, an endless ribbon of a road. imes Dean — beyond help 'Everything okay?" Jimmy asked. "Everything okay," I answered, half jzing. The monotonous hum of the enne was like a soft cradle song. We were not talking now — not of Pier ngeli or of Dean's mother or of anything, he only thought on Jimmy's mind was inning that race. There was no doubt of at: that's all he talked about. I felt a :tle uneasy again. I glanced at Jimmy it could see no shadow of fear across s face. He had no premonitions of his •ath. A few minutes before six o'clock it happed. We were near Cholane. A 1950-model Ford was coming at us. Suddenly the car swung out toward the nter of the highway to turn onto Highay 41, its left wheels over the center ae. Then we hit. My head slammed against e dashboard, and my body was thrown it of the car, yards down the highway. I .ssed out instantly. Dimly I remember being lifted by amilance workers. I came to when the nbulance — racing along at top speed ;th sirens screaming — lurched to miss a ssenger car and I was almost flung from y upper-berth stretcher. Then I thought, mmy! Where was Jimmy? What had opened to him? I saw him as though I sre looking through a leaden haze. There was — my friend Jimmy — lying limp, vered with blood, bones fractured, his ■ck broken. He was beyond help — anye's help. James Dean was dead. . . . Again and again, during the months that lay in the hospital in plaster casts with iy face lost in weird wire structures, I rmented my memory to recall those few conds before Jimmy's death . . . Was there an instant before he died, 'hen he knew that he was dying . . . Did he know pain ... I do not know. The only thing I can member is the soft cry that escaped am Jimmy . . . the little whimpering cry a boy wanting his mother — or of a man cing his God. . . . The driver of the other car was a young itudent named Donald Turnupseed. When Donald found out that he was responsible 'or the crash, he broke down in tears. "I Udn't see him; my God, I didn't see him," ie wept. Donald himself suffered almost no injuries. Rolf Wutherich left the hospital on :rutches. Three months later, he underj:ent a bone grafting operation, connecting as hip bones with an eight-inch silver 'iail and screws. The ring Jimmy gave Rolf at Ridge Route jjos torn from Rolf's finger when he was r.hrown out of the car. He still has a scar jihere the ring was. This ring— Jimmy's lift of friendship to him — lies buried somet here in the desert where Jimmy died . . . END NEW! Clearasil /of/b/) Medication DOCTORS' SCIENTIFIC FORMULA STARVES PIMPLES SKIN-COLORED . . . hides pimples while it works clearasil is the new-type medication especially for pimples. Clinical tests prove it really ivorks. And now you can get clearasil as a smooth, soothing Lotion in handy squeeze-bottle! In Tube or Lotion, clearasil gives you the medications prescribed by leading skin specialists. Why Clearasil works fast: 1. Penetrates . . . 'keratolytic' action dissolves affected tissue, encourages growth of new skin. 2. Antiseptic action stops growth of bacteria that can cause and spread pimples . . . helps prevent further outbreaks. 3. Oilabsorbing action 'starves' pimples . . . dries up and helps remove excess oil that 'feeds' pimples. And clearasil loosens blackheads so they 'float' out with washing. Proved by Skin Specialists! In tests on over 300 patients, 9 out of every 10 cases of pimples were completely cleared up or definitely improved while using clearasil (either Lotion or Tube). Long-lasting Lotion squeeze-bottle only $1.25 (no fed. tax) or Tube, 69^—98^. All drug counters. Money-back guarantee. Clearasil MEWCMION ^jZSSZ^j® Guaranteed by ■i'F~rcrsr \_Good Housekeeping Largest-Selling Pimple Medication in America (Including Canada) 1000 HINTS DIET All the facts on figures and What you gain by losing DELL Publication Now On Sale