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THE FIRST YEAR . . . Continued from page 42 this, his bride burst into a full-throated laugh which ended with each collapsing into the other’s arms, muttering something about “Let’s try it for the thirtysecond time.” Such is life with Steve and Eydie at their Fifty-Seventh Street apartment in New York City in this, the first wonderful, wacky year of their marriage. To say that Mr. and Mrs. Steve Lawrence are in love is an understatement. An afternoon with them is like a day in the country. Visit them and you’ll find they’re as stimulating as a bottle of vitamin tablets — and much nicer to take. Steve ushers us into the living room, leaping over a huge white hassock which stands in the way. Landing on all fours, he emits a Tarzan-like cry. Then he invites his mate to join him on the hassock. She does. It is ample for two and very cosy for people in love. “It’s fun to be a little crazy,” Steve begins, “and we take it as a good luck sign that our marriage got off to a real crazy start. What happened? Well, it was to take place in a Las Vegas hotel at noon. I got there, Eydie got there, and so did the flowers, the cake, the champagne and most of the guests. The rabbi was about to begin the ceremony when who should burst in but Joe E. Lewis wearing a night shirt and a Jewish skull cap. The cap was appropriate for the wedding ceremony — but that night shirt! Joe E. was breathless from running. ‘This is the earliest I ever got up in my life,’ he said to Eydie and me. ‘It just goes to show how much I like you kids.’ We loved him for it but the rabbi said he couldn’t go on with the ceremony until we did something with the man in the night shirt. Well, we sent Joe E. home, he changed, rushed back — and so we were married.” There is some byplay at this point wherein Eydie pushes her mate off the hassock and he plays dead on the floor until she says affectionately, “Good doggie, good doggie!” Steve rolls over on his back and Eydie scratches his stomach. Then he says, “I wouldn’t claim that Eydie fell in love with me right away, but . . .” “Indeed not,” interrupts Eydie, “it was five minutes after 1 met him.” “But,” Steve continues, “I do recall we said something original to each other like ‘hello.’ She was wearing a little blue dress trimmed with blue and white stripes. . . .” Eydie claps her hands. “Imagine him remembering that!” she cries delightedly. “And I thought she was cute, real cute,” Steve goes on. “It was, you understand, a professional meeting and I was thinking of her solely in terms of a singer. It was for a forty -minute local show, and I thought she’d be nice to be with for forty minutes at a time. As for love, it sort of crept up on us later.” “A creepy love affair,” Eydie puts in. Then more seriously, she continues: “You may say you fall in love at first sight, it sounds romantic, but real love isn’t that simple. It’s impossible to fall in love all at once. 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