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The Probation officers will determine the number of visits Mr. Crane and Miss Turner can have with their daughter each week. We will decide at a later time who will be granted permanent custody. The Court’s decision will be guided by the testimony of Probation Officers who have conducted an intensive investigation of her home life and by Cheryl’s own desires.” Then the Judge rose and everyone stood up as he walked out of the room. Suddenly the Courtroom was filled with the sound of voices and chairs scraping as people moved forward to say congratulations. Grandma rushed to Mommy and put her arms around her. They both tried hard to smile, then broke into tears. Mr. Giesler and Mommy’s other lawyers stood silently at her side. She looked up and saw Daddy, whitefaced and unsmiling, his lips pressed tightly together, walk alone to the far corner of the courtroom. 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DIVAS LANA TURNER STARS IN UNIVERSAL-INTER national’s “imitation OF life” DORIS LAUGHS Continued from page 39 Doris Day clambered down from the cab of a locomotive and collapsed, laughing, against the strong shoulder of her husband, Marty Melcher. “Whew! What a scene that was!” she said. “Bet you didn’t know you married a locomotive-hopper!” “Nope,” he grinned, putting his arm around her. “A mean tennis player — yes. A sensational volley ball star — yes. A locomotive-hopper — never!” Marty wasn’t half so surprised as we were, standing nearby, invited by Columbia to take in the location doings at Chester, Conn., on “Miss Casey Jones.” We just stood there with our mouths open, gaping, for once at a total loss for words. We were so stunned we couldn’t come out with the question that’s been in everybody’s mind: Are those newspaper reports that Doris is expecting a baby in November true? If so, how in the world can she go jumping around on a moving train in that delicate condition? And so we asked a studio representative who was standing nearby. The representative spoke bluntly: “Don’t ask Doris about the baby story. It might upset her.” Well, there was one person we could ask: Marty Melcher — big, stalwart, efficient Marty, a true partner after Doris’ two unhappy marriages. Marty — always eager to act as a protective buffer between his wife and any unpleasantness. He was a smart business man and a straightshooter, too — not one to hand out a lot of double talk. And so, cornered by us, when Doris went back before the cameras, Marty met the question head-on. “The story is not true,” he declared flatly. “Then how did it ever get started?” Marty shrugged helplessly. “Who knows? But Doris was pretty upset by it.” Was it the truth? Considering Doris’ whole situation, it was easy to see why the question would affect her deeply. By the first of her youthful marriages, she has a fine son, Terry, who is now sixteen. The birth of a second child after so many years would be a great event in any woman’s life. For Doris and Marty, the prospect would be so overwhelming that she might well be too sensitive to discuss it at all. So the reasonable approach, we decided, was the indirect one, through people who had worked closely with Doris during this crucial period of rumors. The kindly wardrobe woman working on “Miss Casey Jones,” a motherly-looking lady with a mouthful of pins, was fitting a costume on a form labeled “Doris Day.” As she pinned the fabric to this figure, most exactly modeled to Doris’ current measurements, she said, “Well, yes. Doris has put on a little weight. And it’s a good thing! When she started this movie, she’d just done two others in a row, with no rest in between. That’s enough to take weight off anybody, I can tell you. “But she’s smart, Doris is. She crammed in calories like crazy, to build up her strength. She never did have a diet problem, and she loves to eat. ‘I sure have a ball with that soda fountain we just had installed in our new house,’ Doris told me at a fitting one day. She’s always had a sweet tooth, and she’s crazy about choco In November PHOTOPLAY CONTEST : how you can sew up a date with TAB HUNTER — 90