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The ability to buy each other things, plus other investments they are making, is included in the “windfall” classification Esther elaborates: “There are all kinds of veterans of course. Among them are the kids who’d never worked, or at least had never had an interesting job and didn’t mind leaving it. For them the Army was exciting — travel and food and pay thrown in. They’re at loose ends now, with no vocation to take its place, trying to find themselves and their life work. THEN there are the fellows who left good jobs and looked forward to coming back to them. Ben was one of these — he served four years, left his job at twentyseven, but with a number of signed future contracts in his uniform pocket. When he came back at thirty-one, well, you’d be surprised at the number of people who let him down — but flat. With no announcing spots open, he had a choice of fighting for his GI Bill of Rights, or going back to his singing. It took courage because he was unknown as a singer here, but fortunately, Meredith Willson gave him a chance — and of course he made good. “I hope to stay in pictures for quite a while, but like most wives I see Ben’s career as my real future. I know how lucky we are, because there are thousands of kids who came back, after giving up those important years, who are still wondering how to get started, still looking for that friend who’ll give them a chance.” A talent for thinking and feeling are obviously included among Esther’s many other accomplishments. Some day, the Gages would like to take a long trip just by themselves. “But right now, Metro seems to be taking care of my traveling,” says Esther. For “Fiesta” she spent several months in Mexico and “This Time for Keeps” took her to Mackinac Island, Michigan. Her next, “Two on an Island,” has intriguing possibilities because the studio is searching for an especially exotic isle. Meantime, the. Girl With The Perfect Profile All Over is concentrating her extraspecial charm on that part of the civic service of Los Angeles which has to do with the laying of pipe-lines and sewers! “Wouldn’t you just know that as soon as we got our lawn to growing and our garden going, they’d want to tear up the whole place and run a county line right across our back yard! We had two lawns that died out — until we deliberately had a gardener plant devil grass — which is, at last, growing like devil grass — and just beginning to look decent. “Of course, the surveyors guaranteed us, ‘We promise to put everything back, just like it was.’ Just the same, I’m out there every morning, anxiously watching to be sure they don’t hurt my rose bushes or my azaleas or any of the other flowers we have put out. So much love goes into a garden — -how can they put all that back?” So much love and so much living — so much spunk and laughter— that’s Metro’s swim-queen! The End