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The Other Clooney Late To Bed And Early To Rise, So Betty Has No Time For Guys There are many things you’ve got to credit Betty Clooney with, and one of them is youth. Come to think of it, she’s got stamina and fortitude too. Every morning she rises at 5 and every morning, before breakfast, she’s singing away on The Morning Show. What’s really amazing—and most peo¬ ple don’t know this—is that Betty doesn’t get to bed until 2 A.M. She spends her evenings whiling and chirping the hours away at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. All of which leaves little time for romance. The Clooney sisters—Betty and Rosemary—developed this stamina when they were mere snips of teen¬ agers touring America on the one- night-stand circuit with the Tony Pas¬ tor band. Although Betty sang har¬ mony to Rosemary’s lead, neither reads a note of music. “I can tell when the notes go up or down but I don’t know how far,” Betty says. She studies a song by playing tape re¬ cordings. “I hear something four times and <I’ve got it forever.” The girls were always “sort of hammy” but were actually prodded into the business by Mama, self-de¬ scribed as a “frustrated performer who achieved success through her girls.” Thanks to some healthy vocal cords, from the time they were in high school and warbling on a local Cincinnati radio station neither has ever experienced trouble in finding work. When Rosemary went on to fame, to Jose Ferrer and to Hollywood by way of the hit record “Come-On-A- My-House,” the younger Clooney set¬ tled down to a routine grind in night spots. Then Rosemary needed an op¬ eration and Betty subbed for her on TV’s Songs for Sale. On the basis of this, Vaughn Monroe asked Betty to appear in his show; The Hit Parade extended an invitation to its show; and Betty and Mama Clooney packed their bags and left Cincinnati, hope¬ fully, forever. (The whole family con¬ siders Maysville, Ky., home base.) Aware that she got her big break because of her name, Betty says, “But Sisters Clooney: Rosemary, left, and ^ Betty in days of one-night stands.