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v/orld seem as if they’re part of it, and his strict ethic of “another thing to do right” applies to just about every phase of activity in his life. Friends As a boy in high school, he had one particularly close friend, Pete Rogerson. They shared almost everything. Both were school track stars, both liked to write, they shared the same taste in girls. They could talk to each other about anything. The friendship was strong enough to survive by mail when Troy went away to Military School. Today, he has four or five really close friends, all on the Coast. Among them, he includes his mother and sister. With these friends he is completely comfortable, completely at home. He can even write when they’re around. Needs and needs not These, then, are the things he needs — friends, success, time, books, writing. Among the things he doesn’t need are the two which everyone supposes he wants most: lots of girls, and then an early marriage. Frankly, he finds it degrading to date a lot of women just for the sake of dating. He doesn’t find many that he likes, which makes for a lot of wasted evenings. But he is not ready for marriage, either, not even to Sally Todd, with whom he’s been going steady for some six months or so. He finds her physically attractive, interesting, companionable— a girl whom he respects. She DIVORCE Continued from page 70 her. Yet, though she’s known throughout the world — she is still a child. “Perhaps she developed a schoolgirl crush. If she thinks she’s in love with me, I’m sorry. Nothing will break up my marriage. I love my wife very much, and I believe Marilyn loves her husband but is just a little mixed-up now. “Perhaps I was too tender with Marilyn and thought that maybe she was as sophisticated as some other ladies I have known. Had she been sophisticated, none of this would have ever happened. “Our love scenes in the picture maybe were a little too realistic. She should have known it wasn’t for real.” Maybe Marilyn was angered and hurt by Montand’s remarks, because that same day he tried to retract some of his statements. “If I were not married to such a wonderful woman as Simone, I would be very happy to fall in love with Marilyn,” Montand now claimed. “But I’m a happily married man and love no other woman. “I would be happy to make another picture with her. I didn’t say all these things about her. The whole thing makes her look pretty stupid. She’s not that way at all. She’s very intelligent.” This re-kindled the rumors. Marilyn seemed to improve at the West Side Hospital. She started eating her meals regularly, and sleeping nights. She became talkative to the hospital nurses, even joked with them. “I think she feels that Yves Montand still cares for her,” one person, who has been very close to her, told me. “Yet, I think she’s still in love with her husband. I don’t believe she’ll leave him.” But others do: “Marilyn is waiting to see if Yves will might make a perfect wife, but he doesn’t feel ready to be a husband until he is a little older, a little richer, and a great deal surer of a great many things. So, there you are — that’s him. Troy Donahue, as Troy Donahue sees him. The End As he typed “The End,” he looked up and saw that the room was filled with thin, early morning sunlight. He switched off the lamp, he didn’t need it any more to read through what he had just written. Here, on half a dozen or so yellow pages, was the essence of himself, as nearly as he perceived himself to be. But he put the pages together with a paper clip and placed them carefully in a drawer of the writing table. He was tired — dog-tired from no sleep and all that thinking and writing. But he felt good anyway. “It never hurts anybody to take a good look at himself,” he thought. “There’s nothing like knowing who you are, and what you are — and if you’re heading for your goal or making too many detours.” I’ll do this again sometime, he decided. Maybe once a year I’ll sit down and take stock, the way business firms do around January first. But I won’t do it about money — only about me. He yawned wearily and stretched his arms to get the kinks out of them. Now, he felt, he could crawl into bed and sleep like a baby. So he did just that. — Charlotte Dinter. See Troy Donahue in “Parrish” for Warner Brothers, and in “SurfSide 6” on ABC-TV, every Tuesday at 8: 30-9: 30 P.M. EST. get a divorce,” I overheard a top director tell an associate at a studio. “If he does, she’ll divorce Arthur Miller.” And what of Arthur Miller during all of the talk about his wife and Montand? What has he done about it? Miller has been the most reserved of all. He never gave out one interview on the subject, but let it be known through his friends: “I completely trust my wife.” “I think Montand was right,” one of Marilyn’s associates explained, “Marilyn was just a child. But she isn’t any longer. She has matured as a result of the experience.” Is Marilyn really in love with Montand? Will she leave Arthur Miller for him? Will Montand ever marry Marilyn? Marilyn, according to those close to the situation, really believed she was in love with Montand. Her heart palpitated in his presence and she had to be near him. She even missed him once so much that she drove out to Idlewild airport in New York because she knew he was scheduled to arrive from Los Angeles and change planes for Paris. She anxiously awaited his arrival, and, like a schoolgirl, dashed out to meet him as he got off the plane. They walked hand-in-hand to her Cadillac. Inside, they were spotted holding hands and drinking champagne. 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