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pickup, a bromo, a cup of tea — anything.” “Can’t. There’s another plane waiting to fly us to the ranch.” “We could drive in two hours,” Peter offered desperately. “Flying, we’ll make it in thirty minutes. But, okay. One pickup.” Three “pickups” later they returned to the plane. The guest who had been waiting departed in a huff and incidentally, in the only taxi. The pilot delivered a long dissertation about people who didn’t keep appointments, got into his plane and took off. Suddenly the irony of the situation struck Peter. After an all-day flight during which he was constantly ill, he found himself, instead of skeet shooting, niaking his bed on a wooden bench in an airport terminal! So he and Ned laughed at themselves until they were too weak to do anything but sleep. Ned McLEAN is Peter’s best friend. But Cary Grant is Peter’s idol. Cary’s early I career followed much the same course that Peter’s is now running. And Peter hopes that, like Cary, he’ll go from straight leading-man roles to dramatic stardom and the independence of free-lancing. For years, in fact, Peter has studied Cary’s pictures with an eye to self-improvement. But it wasn’t until one summer night when, because of a flat tire, Peter was late to a dinner being given by his boss, Louis B. Mayer, that he came to value Cary as a human being. One is not late to a Louis B. Mayer dinner. Particularly young M-G-M actors. Everyone had gone to the dining room and the bar was a tomb. While Peter hesitated, aghast, thinking, “I can’t go in. Maybe if I just go out and break a leg — ■” Cary came lunging out of the men’s room. “Jeepers,” he said to Peter. “Am I glad to see you.” Together they braved the dining room. Thev walked down the endlessly long stem of the “T” banquet table to their places. Conversation stopped. Heads turned as their progress was observed. But it was Cary who was the ! center of this observation. Cary was i mugging, grinning, nodding to people he knew, drawing attention to himself, so that the less secure Peter might And his seat and slink into it in decent obscurity. This seemingly minor episode has enj deared Cary to Peter for Iffe. I Peter could do worse than fill Cary’s shoes someday. In a way, actually, he’s doing that right now. Cary owns a pair of brown alligator loafers. Peter, admiring them, asked, “Where did you get them?” Cary told him. And Peter, convinced that Cary is the best-dressed man in Hollywood or for that matter, in America, remembered. ] So — a few months ago, when Peter was : in New York, he received a telephone call I from California advising him of a new five[ year contract and a raise. “I think,” he said to himself, “I should buy a nice present— to celebrate.” The next morning early, at the address Cary had given him, he bought a pair of brown alligator loafers. 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