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Gay Companions (Continued from page 27) dollars a year. It was his idea to keep Miami Beach a resort for those in the middle-income brackets. Sun Valley, the fashionable resort which cost millions but from the start paid handsome dividends, was largely conceived by him. I Many tycoons, to whom Steve talks as directly as he does to his office boy, inI sist he is psychic. More than once they I have been glad they listened when he I said, “I can’t tell you why, but I wouldn’t ; go into that right now. . . Maybe it was because of Steve’s indisputable prestige that Ann wanted him to look after her. Maybe, a mythical figure in his way, he intrigued her personally. She had, after all, known him casually and by exciting reputation for years. He would challenge any woman. But Ann would understand him better than most. She would believe utterly in his most incredible plans, his most fantastic exploits. A girl from the Texas plains who forsook her original dream of being a schoolteacher to storm Hollywood and then survived cheesecake publicity to give outstanding performances in dramatic roles would know, of course, that it is no more difficult to achieve the incredible and the fantastic — provided you refuse to call quits no matter what happens — than it is to accomplish the ordinary. “I’m goitig to play squire to a movie gal,” Steve told friends and associates as he awaited Ann’s arrival in New York. He VOtIrs very casual about it. He didn’t know then how direct her speech would be and how gentle her mouth. To qtrote Ann’s and Steve’s friends, "they clicked.” And once either of these gay cof!Tpanions has an objective they waste no time going after it. That is the personal history of both of them. Take, for instance, Steve’s first meeting with his ex-wife, from whom he was divorced, incidentally, only a month or two before Ann reached New York. At the Stork Club, one night, he asked Lopez, the maitre d’hotel, “Who is that very beautiful girl who just came in?” “She is head model at Saks-5th Avenue,” Lopez explained. “Suzie Brewster’s her name.” “Check with me in six weeks,” replied Steve. “Her name will be Hannagan!” It was One night Ann and Steve went to the Wedgewood Room at the Waldorf to hear Frank Sinatra. A not-too-sober gentleman, dancing past their table, called to Ann, “What’s my girl got that you haven’t got?” “You, you lug!” answered Steve. “Steve’s wonderful,” Ann told everyone, as she reported this incident. “On the spur of the moment he always comes ■ up with the sort of thing I would think of the next morning.” 1 A FTER a week or two or three Ann had ^ to return to California. But Steve ’ saw to it that no one replaced him in I her affections. He telegraphed red roses I after her all the way across the country. In Chicago he had a man waiting to look after her between trains. He was, it ' developed, a fire chief. And the car in ! which he drove Ann all around town was ; the official bright red. Ann had hardly reached home when Steve decided the time had come for him to go to Omaha, headquarters for his railroad account. But as soon as his conferences there ended, he headed farther ' west. Promptly upon his arrival on the sound stage where Ann was making “One More Tomorrow,” Dennis Morgan, Jack ■ Carson and Jane Wyman disappeared. They ransacked the property rooms and found, at last, a bright red fire axe. They le of America's greatest jnovie stars says NEW...a CREAM DEODORANT which Safely helps STOP under-arm PERSPIRATION 1. Does not irritate skin. Does not rot dresses and men’s shirts. 2. Prevents under-arm odor. Helps stop perspiration safely. 3. A pure, white, antiseptic, stainless vanishing cream. 4. No waiting to dry. Can be used right after shaving. 5. Arrid has been awarded the Approval Seal of the American Institute of Laundering for being harmless to fabric. Use Arrid regularly. 39^ a jar {Also In 100 and 590 jars) Al any store which sells toilet goods ARRID THE LARGEST SELLING DEODORANT P IVI IVI R7