TV Radio Mirror (Jul - Dec 1958)

Page, Nat "King" Cole, and Rosemary Clooney (who is Dianne's special favorite because "she's not only a good singer but such a devoted mother as well"). "I like to date Dick," explains DeDe, "because he makes the decisions, and they're usually the ones I'd have made. I like a boy to take the initiative and plan the evening. I guess I'm just not the bossy type. If I don't like the way a boy acts on a date, I don't quarrel with him. I just say 'no' the next time he calls." Before young Gass quit his cable-splicer job with the telephone company and joined the Army, he and Dianne saw a great deal of each other, and his first leave found Dick as much at the Lennon home as in his own. Admittedly, they enjoy each other's company, but both insist there is no definite understanding, and they are quite free to date others. As for love, Dianne will only commit herself to this smiling evasion: "Of course, I love Dick. I love all my friends and he's just about the best friend any girl ever had." It goes without saying, that among these friends is Lawrence Welk Jr. Young Larry —who is gaining a reputation in show business as talent scout — is another exschool chum regarded fondly by DeDe as "one of the family." It was Larry who called his dad's attention to the Lennon Sisters after hearing them perform at an Elks Club benefit. (He was also instrumental in getting an audition for clarinetist Pete Fountain.) DeDe and Larry usually spend their evenings together at jazz concerts — and days have found them, on occasion, at Hollywood Turf Club in Inglewood, just a few short miles from the Lennon home. Too young to place bets, they nevertheless enjoy the clean ocean breezes and the sight of the slender, high-strung animals as they prance proudly by. Neither college nor career are key words in DeDe's lexicon of love. She has no compelling urge to set the world on fire as a maker of money, a doer of spectacular deeds, or a singer of incomparable renown. 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