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EFREM ZIMBAUST continued
Mr. Z can stroll up to any woman, kiss her hand, her cheek, compliment her and leave her glowing and starry-eyed"
who looks like a disillusioned Yale man. He's recognizee and fawned over by visitors; he signs — and very cheerfully— dozens of autographs for friends and friends of friends; he chats politely and charmingly with interviewers in the studic or at lunch in the Green Room. "It's a lovely life," sayf Efrem, "getting your shoulder slapped, except for the perioc you spend slapping your shoulder yourself."
But there are moments, as Efrem admits, when he become: a little weary of recognition. There are days when a garage door that needs fresh paint is far more alluring than i formal, black-tie bash. For Efrem is a man who just canno pass a concrete-mixer without wanting to see it work. Give him a chain saw that will snarl its way through a three-foo eucalyptus tree, and in ten minutes you've got yourself a con of firewood. Point out a broken greenhouse window, and be fore you can say "Efrem Zimbalist, Jr." he has a putty knift in his hands.
That's why, when that two-acre place of his needed a nev sprinkler system, Efrem spent a number of happy weekend surrounded by uprooted garden and a complex of coppe pipe. To this neighbor of mine, do-it-yourself means do-it yourself, and putting in the sprinkler system was the jo; of his life. Stephanie, his wife, was allowed to help a little the kids, Nancy, Efrem III, and baby Steffie, were permitte< to supervise the tools, yet this was Efrem's own project, an< nothing could keep him away.
Before long, the lawn was dotted with shiny new sprinkle heads, the water flowed, and the thirsty plants stood up 01 their stalks and smiled. When the job was completed, onl one thing bothered Zimmy: the heap of discarded stone; tree roots and other junk that spoiled the looks of his wort
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CASUAL clothes are preferred by Efrem. He usually wears sport shirts, old dungarees and cowboy boots when not acting on TV.
PETS of all kind abound at the Zimbalists' home. Efrem, his wife, Stephanie and their daughter Nancy are all animal lovers.
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