the hospital; so much so that she delayed the film "Giant" several weeks, all the while insisting on denying that her life with Wilding was on the verge of its setting! The rumors of that time affirmed that Liz was not suffering from any bodily illness, and that the matter went no further than a nervous crisis —

Hence the journalists came to recognize any emotional crisis touching the happiness of the pampered, beautiful star, which lays her in bed... and there she is, ill — or feigning illness. Might this latest illness of hers be of the same kind? That is what people have been asking of late, ever since word spread about Liz that she invents illness to escape some particular situation she has no wish to enter or to wade into...

The doctors support Liz's position in this affair, affirming that the true cause of her latest illness is a "disc," a pain in her spinal column resulting from

a fall six years ago while she was water-skiing; and these pains are painful indeed, Liz affirms... Women know from their own experience that this condition in particular has its problems and its complications during pregnancy, and it is therefore expected that her delivery this time will be attended by pains in the back such as Liz had not known in her two previous confinements.

There is another matter that occupies Liz's mind and possesses her thoughts since the marriage — her children, Chris and Mike, both at the age when little ones most need their mother's tenderness and attention. How can the mother assure them of that, when she scarcely sees them for the number of her journeys and her movings-about? It is true that in the past she was absorbed in her work; but in those days she would return, between one film and the