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■ To those of us who know Liz Taylor— who've seen her recently, been with her these past few weeks — one fact is extraordinary :
Never in her life has she been happier, healthier, more content, more calm, than since her marriage to Eddie Fisher.
This includes the short, supposedly-fabulous period of time she was married to Mike Todd.
Certainly this includes the years she spent as the wife of Michael Wilding.
And Nicky Hilton.
The years of her childhood, when she was the most beautiful and the most spoiled young girl in all of Hollywood. . . .
Most of you have been reading about Liz for years. You've read about some of the downs in her life. But mostly you've read about the ups, the good times, the gay times, the marvelous times that have been bestowed on this loveliest of all movie princesses.
Let us say, right here and now, that those accounts of the good, gay, marvelous times were very much exaggerated.
For here is a girl who, until now, has not been very happy.
Who has, indeed, suffered.
Who has suffered physical pain.
Heartbreak.
And an emotional instability so terrible that, more than once, she has been on the verge of a serious nervous breakdown. . . .
Those of us who know Liz Taylor see the bright look in her eyes today, and we remember the times when those eyes were filled with tears.
The tears, for instance, brought on by the awful pain her back condition would cause her.
"An imagined condition, purely psychosomatic , ' ' some people have shrugged.
"A very real condition," others have said, "a slipped disc that has required operation after operation."
Real or (Continued on page 69)