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“I’d be happy with Audie anywhere,” says Pam. Above, with his best friends, the Pitt family
ANY DAY now, when Audie Murphy’s divorce becomes final, you’ll read of his engagement to a girl who should have met him even before he married Wanda Hendrix — and who almost did . . .
Dark-eyed, soft-spoken, petite, Pamela Archer is an air hostess supervisor in Dallas for Braniff Airways. She has raven hair, olive skin, and quiet wisdom which bespeak her Cherokee (one-eighth) heritage. She’s a girl whose undivided heart may well provide for this restless, lonely star-soldier such happiness as has long escaped him.
And if you think the story of Audie and Pam could only happen in Hollywood — then you’ve never
-been to Texas.
Back in 1945, Pam Archer fell a little in love with a Life Magazine picture of the nation’s most decorated soldier. A handsome young man with dark curly hair and a round babyish face, but with eyes that had seen too much for his twenty years. “That was when I first ‘met’ Audie,” Pam drawls softly. “After that I read every fine printed about him, and admired him so very much.” For two years she followed Audie’s life and career via clippings, film gossip columns, and newspapers. All the pilots ( Continued on page 111)
Pam’s attitude towards Audie is exactly what any doctor would order for him
Says Audie Murphy, “I can’t help feeling there’s something awfully right about this.” He’s in “Red Badge of Courage”
If you don’t believe a girl can fall in love with a picture and that love will find a way — then this story is not for you
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