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Both Piper Laurie and Tab Hunter are furnishing apartments and that's what brought 'em together. They started bidding on the same desk at a public auction! Piper is still evasive about David Schine (now managing the Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel) and Tab's interest in cute Natalie Wood is purely platonic. So the coast is clear for everyone.

The Christmas I'll Never Forget
Ghosts of a Christmas past still haunt these stars. But they're jolly ghosts with a gift- for recalling treasured times.
BY GLADYS HALL

Piper Laurie found something Christmas, 1951 in Korea. She was away from her family, friends, gifts and celebrations. She was on a three-week tour of the rear areas of Korea, visiting and entertaining at hospitals
"It was Christmas night and we were able to wrangle our way up to a front position along with a chaplain," says Piper. "in a bleak isolated section, we fund the camp and a group of about twenty men came to greet us. While we stood there talking, I felt something brush against my hair and I turned around sharply. There stood a shy-looking sergeant, who rather embarrassedly apologized. 'I just wanted to touch your har,' he said. 'It feels so good and smells so nice.' "I couldn't say anything. I was so touched. But I'll never forget that boy nor the tenderness of the moment."

The article is accompanied by a small color photo of Piper in a pink negligee reclining with head up looking a Christmas wreath- All he did was touch her hair but Piper Laurie will never forget the GI- or the reason he gave that Christmas, 1951.- Piper's negligee by Juel Park, Feather Wreath by Jasper House Ltd.