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NEVER A DULL MOMENT!
A chance twist of the dial and Rock Hudson was tuned in to something that changed the whole course of his life
BY HELEN LIMKE
• Frankly, Rock Hudson was bored. Or rather, Roy Fitzgerald was. It was August of 1946, and Roy had spent the greater part of his time since May sitting on the beach in Winnetka, Illinois. When he received his discharge from the Navy after the war, the general consensus seemed to be that he deserved a well-earned rest. “Don’t jump into something right away. Take time off. Have some fun,” well-meaning friends and relatives suggested.
Well, Roy was taking time off. And he was waiting for something interesting to happen. Somehow, everything had changed. “What’s become of that old gang of mine?” could have been his theme song. While he’d been in the service, a lot of his friends had moved away; others had married. While they were still his friends, things weren’t the same. You couldn’t call up a married buddy at midnight and say, “How about shooting the breeze and listening to some new records I bought today?” The little woman might take a dim i view of such shenanigans. And besides, most of his pals had to go to work early in the morning.
So June slipped into July, and July into August and Roy was still sitting alone on the beach and growing more bored every day. You might even say that Roy was beginning to be unhappy. Unhappiness was a state so foreign to his usual happy-go-lucky nature that it : was a while before Roy fully realized how heavy was the gloom that had descended on him. It was a chance twist of the radio dial one sultry August morning ( Continued on page 103)
Photography is part of the “ secret” in Rock’s changed life!
“Boredom begins ivhen you feel nothing interesting can happen”
Rock is also In “One Desire” and “Only Yesterday”
No boredom on the “Giant” set! “The simplest things you do can
Rock, Jimmy Dean, Liz Taylor become fascinating” insists Rock
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