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Show 1 author of love machine (in J valley of the dolls V ! i 1 9 i Vmn I ran wDqod J f I says fflumnaDir I i i msmonoiisi$s i f ? t ti . I i cflaDmCt wnoIk? t i i I t ly Jacqueline Susann I Jacqueline Susarni and TV producer husband Irving Mansfield enjoy Miami sun, a bit of togetherness between her boohs and tours and bis television productions. j ) W HEN I WAS A CHILD the world was bright and beautiful. The snow was white in the winter and the no smog. grass was green in the summer. There was and passed There were no jets. People traveled by train books. the time by reading As a child I was an omnivorous reader. The Arabian Nights, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella were my gospel. All my favorite stories began with Once upon a time and ended with And they lived happily ever after. But today I am willing to concede that the closing line from my childhood fairy tales . . . And they lived a line from a is just that happily ever after one must work fairy tale. To make a marriage work at it. The most rocky kind of marriage is the glamor marriage. This poor hackneyed thing has been kicked around scandal magazines and movie magazines for years and years. Sure, they advocate glamor marriages . . . four or five to a customer. BUT DO THEY EVER look at the other side of the coin? The successful glamor marriages. They DO exist. Could anything be more glamorous than the marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor? There will be main-kingof England listed in history. But there will be only one king who gave up his throne for the woman 1 love. This mairiage has lasted over thirty years. And it wasnt too long ago when we watched the televised wedding ceremony of an American who became a princess. Grace Kelly became Her Serene Highness of Monaco. The bride was one of the most beautiful women in the world. The prince was handsome. They now have three beautiful children. This glamorous marriage is alive and well in Monaco! with or without benefit Every human relationship of clergy has problems. THE AVERAGE MARRIAGE has money problems. The young couple who have small children and are worrying alwnit payments for the television set, the new tires for the car, the life insurance payments, the doctor bills for HIS mother, the dentures for HER mother, stare with envy at Jackie Onassis on her yacht or Elizabeth Taylor as she shines her newest diamond. I have liesrrt Mi usual whispers about many alleged They really hate one another glamor marriages. ... i, ! ... why they always have that extra man He cheats on her every second with HIM along? . . . She cheats on him every second with HIM . . . ROTH . . homosexuals its a marriage of Theyre convenience. Sounds farfetched? Well these are just a few of the absurd whispers made alx)ul glamor mar. r i ! i i ? i k . Know ... . riages. I am privileged to know Princess Grace and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. I dont think either of these marriages needs any testimonies to its success. I do not know Jackie Onassis or Mrs. Richard Burton, but I am sure that, in spite of their diamonds and yachts, they work at their marriages. But I cannot talk about their marriages with any personal knowledge. ... she gave golf a sporting chance . . . and scored a hole in one . . became an expert on animals , romances pills and mixed-u. . . and served peanut butter sandwiches for dinner. p s t . you get right dowrn to the nitty gritty, no one can taik about ANYONES marriage, except his own. That lovely man next door who helps his wrife dry the dishes might turn into an axe murderer the folIN FACT, when lowing day. My marriage has been called a glamor marriage. It even sounds like a fairy tale marriage. It certainly has all the physical accoutrements. My husband, Irving Mansfield, is attractive, endowed with a great sense of humor and good health. Hes a successful television producer and is financially and emotionally secure. (The kind of a man all of Helen Gurley Browns readers are desperately trying to find.) The (thats me) is a former actress, now a successful writer, healthy and fairly, normal. (If you dont count being balmy over animals an eccentricity.) w-if- . e Now lets be objective about how we look to the public. Two people in love (with each other), dividing their time between Los Angeles and New York, with stopovers in Rome. London and Paris. These people seem to have everything. BUT I HAVE HEARD the snide whispers. She writes about those kinds of people in her books and THEY arent happy. So how can SHE be happy? . . . And she writes about marriages like these and end in divorce. So how can HER marriage work? they Answer: I lose all the small battles and win the big ones. (Translated) I try HIS way before I say NO. He tries things MY way before HE says NO. Example : I am the kind of lady who never walked if she could sit. But I married a man who should have entered the Olympics as a long distance w alker. Ill prove what a daring type I am I actually heard that when he was in college he thought nothing of walking home from New York to Brooklyn on a cold winters night. I KNEW THINGS like this BEFORE I manied him, but I plunged right in. On the other hand, he KNEW I couldnt cook but HE plunged right in. He swore he could eat baloney sandwiches all his life (1 have since learned to make a passable steak, and he no longer walks to Brooklyn.) He compensates for this little loss in other ways. Take golf for example. Some people use those darling little carts. But NOT the Mansfields! We WALK! Up hills . . . down hills . . . across streams . . . through sand traps . . . and do I complain? Not a sound comes out of me. I have to conserve my wind ! Besides. Im grateful he doesnt insist we cany our own bags. But I did give golf a sporting chance, and after a season of blisters on my hands and feet. I made a e and wound up a real aficianado. IRVING GREW UP in Brooklyn during the depression. There was no dog to traipse across the Brooklyn wonderBridge with him in his youth. No ful mongrel named Spot or Rover. And. God knows, no one on his block had ever heard of a French poodle. In fact, if his mother had ever seen a French poodle in those days, she would have put it in a pot and boiled it! (See Page 6) ... hole-in-on- tail-thumpin- g, cn |