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Hal likes to cook sturdy bachelor dishes. Candy loves to "serve up" with her fragile bridal china.
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when I first met her five years ago at a party, even though I was definitely not in the marrying mood, I left the party thinking: When I finally do marry, I hope the girl will be like Candy. Now, five years later, I'm here to say Candy is everything I thought she was . . . everything I ever thought I wanted in a wife."
Which statement is considerably more than simply a newlywed husband speaking from his private cloud on upper Fifth Avenue. With the advent of The $64,000 Question on CBS-TV, Hal leaped into several million American homes weekly and soon became TV's numberone bachelor. National magazines clamored for bachelor stories to satisfy their heavy mail requests for information on this top quiz show's charming master of ceremonies. Hal was a good sport. Beyond that, he was honest. He felt if his viewers really wanted to know why he was still a bachelor . . . what he was looking for in a wife . . . they should be told the truth. He was utterly candid in explaining he was not, and never had been, a "confirmed bachelor" . . . was by no stretch of the imagination a woman-hater. Quite the contrary. He did a lot of dating and confessed that, even though beauty of itself was not a prerequisite, it was true he very definitely had "an eye for beauty."
Carrying this one step further, Hal had admitted, "I particularly like girl singers. For years I seem to have gravitated toward them." His date book — which over the course of years has included such names as Doris Day, Gloria De Haven, Kay Starr, Betty Ann Grove and Peggy Lee — proved the accuracy of this statement.
In the September 1955 issue of TV Radio Mirror, Hal opened up considerably more, by announcing to this magazine's readers that he felt he was now ready for marriage . . . his life had stabilized to the point where he thought he was now able to (Continued on page 90)
Hal March is master of ceremonies for The $64,000 Question, seen on CBS-TV, Tuesday, 10 P.M. EDT, as sponsored by Revlon, Inc.
Candy couldn't have a better model for sketching — Hal couldn't pose for a more flattering artist!
Now that her emcee-hubby has branched out into acting, too, Candy's proved a great help cuing him in his lines.