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WO YEARS AGO John Wayne underwent chest surgery for incipient cancer. He could have kept quiet aboutit. It might have been the smart thing to do for the sake of his career. Whydidn’t he? “Because I know how much hope my recovery could bring to many poor devils in the same fix, that’s why,” Wayne told me.“I wanted to encourage people to get regular checkups. That’s how I found out I had cancer. I had a few weeks off, and my wife Pilar kept after me to get my checkup over with. That’s when they found the spot on my lung.” PHOTO CREDITS Page 2: Wide World; UPI; NBC; Universal Pictures; Prentice-Hall. Page 4: Sigrid Owen for DPI. Page 5: Francis Laping for DPI. i Ly i g E i i E PLEASE, ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT FOREST FIRES That was two years ago. So I asked him, “How are you feeling?” = He rapped his knuckles on the wooden desk in his trailer dressing room.“So far, so good,”he said. “But it takes five years to be sure. Meanwhile, every day I thank the Good Lord for being alive! “Until such a thing happens to you,” he went on, “you never know how good it feels just to get up every morning to see the sun. And I've never been closer to my family.” This was a far ery from the man who used to prefer carousing with his buddies to almost any other kind of activity. In some ways, the “new” Wayne is more subdued, more mature. In others, he goes overboard to: show that he can still keep up with anyone. “I had to make sure that no one thought my operation got me down,” he said with a grin, After the sur- ty Family Weekly, April $0, 1967 Little John Ethan Wayne strikes’ a pose like his father’s. gery he jumped back to work with an enormousfervor. Wayne's temper has mellowed,too. “Don’t get me wrong,” he said. “A temper can be useful in my profession. I keep remembering a story my father told me when I was a boy about the mule skinner who always treated his critter kindly—but only after he first hit him with a club to show him who was boss.” There is no doubt in anyone's mind whoiscalling the shots on any Batjac (John Wayne's company) production. “The War Wagon” was a coproduction between Batjac and expublicist Marvin Schwartz, with Burt Kennedy hired as director. Yet Waynehimself was running the show from the first day to the last. One day, for instance, the director seemed quite satisfied with a shot, when Wayne said, “Let's do one more.” After it was done, Wayne announced, “That's it.” And it was. Today everything Wayne does seems deliberate and well thought out. Yet in spite of the fear for his life, there is nothing frantic about this man whobelieves in God, in oldfashioned principles, and in very conservative politics. Politics is still one subject that will draw him into an argument. “I was always good at debating,” he said with a smile. “My first ambition was to become a lawyer.” Wayne's carefulallocation of time filters down even to his leisure activities. They usually consist of fishing or boarding his 136-foot converted minesweeper with his family and cruising up and down the coast of California. “For me, this is the best wayto relax. I leaveall cares behind. On the boat, I sleep like a rock.” But there isn’t much timeforthis any more. Wayne, whowill be 60 on May 26, is more in demand forpic- ‘ tures than ever. And when he had more than a few daysoff, as.he did about a year ago,he took off to entertain troops in Vietnam. “Why did you exhaust yourself like that?” I asked. “You don’t sing or dance. Whatcould you do?” “T visited the guys in the foxholes, Just small groups. I shook hands, and we talked. They’ve known meall their lives, so I went to say hello and tell them I was with them all the way.” “In everything he does, he’s become more of a participant than I’ve ever seen him,” a friend had told me. “Some guys were throwing a ball around the other day. He just had to get in the game—maybe simply to show that he could keep up with the rest of them. Some days he par~- ticipates in horseplay like a sevenyear-old kid.” Wayne maybe concerned abouthis health. He may be growing older and balder, he may have to wear a scarf to hide the wrinkles on his neck, but men still envy his virility and women still are awed by his sex appeal. He is still the legendary cowboy, maybe the last onestill around. “And I try to live up to this image in life. Straight thinking, living by a code— whatever the code is—and sticking to it.” @ |