257:"The United States had come out of a dreadful time - the Depression and then five years tied up in a war. A lot of people were suffering from the loss of relatives, from the loss of limbs. And then we came along - a daily soap opera, pure escapism, fantasy. People loved the so-called relationship between Buzz and me. We could never kiss, but I was the only one on the show who could call him "Buzz" and be familiar with him. Sometimes he would put his arm around my waist: "Careful, Carol." But that was as far as we could go. People followed the continuing story of our lives, intertwined in the future, in space. Who would have dreamed, in those days, that in a few years there would be a Sputnik, and then somebody really up on the moon?"
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was cancelled soon after her marriage, and Hewitt abandoned her acting career. Instead, she focused her efforts on operating "Courant", a business started by Meer designing crystal chandeliers. The business became well-known in the Los
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gas line company. When she was 22, she moved to Los
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was an
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