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of a bargain basement dress, two black eyes,
a soda — and one telephone, ringing a message of hope
1 REMEMBER, when I was growing up, what a big day in my life St. Valentine’s Day was. You remember, too, don’t you? How excited we’d be when it came to counting the Valentines we got, guessing who sent the anonymous ones, figuring out the numbers which stood for initials and the thrill if we got the fancy, most important one from the most important boy?
Then I was a grownup — or, at least, I thought so — and Valentine’s Day was just a youngsters’ holiday. But now, and ever since I’ve been really grown up, I’ve learned the real meaning of the day of St. Valentine, the day set aside to mark thoughtfulness and love and sentimental remembering. It’s a day almost as old as Christmas and beneath all the joking and blushing giggling, it has a real meaning that’s kept it alive all these years.
I wondered how many of my Hollywood friends remembered the sentimental anniversary just as I did . . . The story of Dan Dailey and his wife is quite a tale:
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When Ben Cage was in the Army it wasn’t easy to get leave. Bat he wouldn’t have been a man in love if he hadn’t found a way one St. Valentine’s Day to keep Esther Williams listening to the sound of his voice
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