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If You Like What You Love You're in Luck (Continued from page 49) the nose. I’m always the one who loses.” Marty is the voice of authority at home,” iris explained. “Terry is crazy about him. netimes I think that’s why Marty mard me.” Don’t forget Nana,” Mr. Melcher objted. Nana is my mother,” Doris explained, id Marty dearly loves her. You see, I’m just an ‘also-ran’ at home,” ris said. “I don’t count much.” Not much. You should see her do her dening.” [I like gardening, but I need a little p,” Doris admitted. ''Doris reminds me of a surgeon,” i rty explained. “Scalpel — sutures — scisi's! With Doris it’s: ‘hoe — shovel — sprin|r!’ ” The steaks arrived, sans potatoes for Mr. I'lcher. “Let me at least try one,” he said, paring several off my plate. Miss Day xed her tomato juice with a glass of butmilk, admiring the pink hue she’d con:ted. “It’s delicious. Try it,” she said, jering me her glass. took a sip while Marty, having folved suit mixing the brew, downed half glass at one swallow. Like taking medie. I nevertheless wasn’t quite ready to fend him my sympathy. “Tell me,” I red. “Does she leave the cap off her >thpaste?” ‘Invariably.” ‘That’s only the half of it,” Doris conled cheerfully. “I’m a tube wrestler. I 1’t help myself. I squeeze them all out shape.” ‘And when she’s through with hers she ,rts in on mine,” Marty observed. As husband to husband, I was beginning feel an affinity with Marty Melcher. Tiat about late snacks?” I asked. ‘No problem,” Marty said. “I have mbles, though.” ‘I make him jumpy at times when I rearse my lines,” Doris elaborated. “I allys do before I go to sleep.” ‘I’m peacefully dozing off and she’ll sudnly shout: ‘I’m going to have you arited, you cad,’ or something like that. It’s ough to make a nervous wreck out of yone.” ‘Never mind,” Doris said. “You get even th me when I’m having my massage. I get relaxed, feeling wonderful. Suddenly ;re’s a scream. ‘Shut up. Don’t make a >ve,’ someone says. ‘What’s the matter, rling?’ I shriek. No answer. Then — ‘Get ;o that coffin, sister,’ the same voice. By at time I finally realize it’s the television. 5 the one time when I can’t stand teleiion.” ‘You see,” Marty said. “It’s not always so sy being married to Doris.” ‘Anyway,” I said, “you can have Doris’ iging whenever you want it.” ‘What do you mean?” Doris protested, larty does all the singing at home — in the ower.” ‘I sing pretty good,” Marty said, somelat injured. ‘A great voice,” Doris affirmed. “My gain is the Met’s loss. Marty dances, too. Clad a bath towel.” Several people stopped at the table to say ello.” Doris Day incorporated greeted em with her customary charm. You could 5 them brightening up, literally like a rkened room whose shutters are sudnly thrown open to the sunshine and ylight. “They’re nice,” Doris said after the visit's left. ‘Doris thinks everybody should be ppy,” Marty commented. “Or at least to t to be happy — think happy thoughts, te’s right, too. It’s one of the things I’ve learned from her and I’m grateful for it.” “What’s the use of making yourself get depressed? The whole world would be a happier place if everybody tried harder to think only in positive terms. This is not just a line. I’m convinced of it. It’s worked pretty well for me. It can work for others, too. I like things that are nice, wholesome. “I’ll have banana cream pie for dessert,” Doris told the waitress. “Coffee for me, black,” Marty ordered balefully. “Look at that girl — banana cream pie — and she doesn’t gain an ounce.” Doris looked slim and trim in a sky blue, pleated all-around shirtwaist dress with pleated cap sleeves and collar. “I work hard — I’ve got to eat,” Doris said, putting her fork in position for that first, delicious bite. What, incidentally, was she doing when she was not working? I asked. “Rearranging furniture,” Marty answered. “Sometimes I come home at night and I think I’m in the wrong house. It’s a good thing we’re not living in an apartment. I’d really be in trouble.” “It’s a good thing you’re not a drinking man,” Doris added gaily. “You can see it’s not so easy,” Marty said again. “Come see me alone some day and I’ll give you the lowdown on our marriage problems.” “You do that,” Doris encouraged me. “And come see me later. I may have something to say on that, too.” I had a warm glow taking leave of Doris and Marty, the kind one always feels after meeting a couple who are happy and in love. For underneath the kidding and the banter that was quite obvious, they’re congenial, enjoy each other’s company, and there’s genuine trust, friendship and affection between them. They like each other. Which is even more than being in love. It’s easy to see why they should be attracted one to the other. Doris and Marty are a study in contrasts, a composition in black and white. Marty — a good deal handsomer than he appears in snapshots — is very dark, the perfect foil for Doris’ fairness. Where Doris is bubbling over with enthusiasm, is straightforward and direct, Marty is wry, suave, very calm and restrained. Such differences frequently generate the spark of attraction. However, the Melchers have now been together for close to four years, and from the looks of it they’re going to stay married till the end of their lives. What was it that seemed to tie them together so securely? The Marty Melcher I met alone in his office was different from the urbane man he’d been at the luncheon table. “We love each other,” he said simply. “Doris is a wonderful girl. She has — how shall I put it? — she has confidence. Not just confidence in herself; a lot of people have that. Doris has confidence in life. It’s more than faith, she has that, too, very strong faith — it’s a deep instinctive confidence that life is wonderful and that everything that happens is for the best. It’s a sense of belonging, of being right and fitting for this world. I admire her for it, and I envy it. “Sometimes I think of her as Pippa,” Marty smiled. “You know, Browning’s poem, ‘Pippa Passes’? 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