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...Bronx County Courthouse one morning last week Supreme Court Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo heard an elderly couple plead for the setting aside of the three-day notice required for marriage in New York. Granting the plea and satisfied that the pleaders were not syphilitic -another legal requirement-Judge Cotillo married them. The couple: Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, 59, publisher of New York's tabloid Daily News, and Mary King, fiftyish, women's editor of the News and fiction editor of the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate...
Dismissed on a technicality in New York Supreme Court was the suit of Actor Frank Wallace to be declared the husband of Cinemactress Mae West. Remarked Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo: "So he wants to be declared Mae West's husband? I admire...
...Countess had 1) misrepresented her social position, wealth, upbringing; 2) been bought off in two previous engagements; 3) married Socialite Ryan intending shortly to dissolve the marriage, obtain a settlement enabling her to return to a previous love. With obvious reference to the onetime Barbara Hutton, Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo declared...
...This is going to be no hippodrome," announced Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo of the New York State Supreme Court, when Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee and his estranged wife Fay Webb Vallee appeared in the Justice's Manhattan courtroom. Crooner Vallee & wife were there to settle a three-year legal wrangle, determine whether Mrs. Vallee's weekly allowance should be upped. Chief issues: 1) What is Rudy's income? 2) Was Rudy unfaithful to Fay? 3) Was Fay unfaithful to Rudy...
...rose to $121,000 last year. Mrs. Vallee's best witness was her father, Police Chief Clarence E. Webb of Sacramento, Calif., who accused Rudy of teaching Fay to drink. Soon all issues were forgotten in a noisy, three-sided squabble among the opposing lawyers and Justice Cotillo. Climax came when Rudy, enraged by one of his wife's lawyers, struck a fighting pose, threatened to scuffle. Abruptly, Justice Cotillo closed the trial, retired to ponder...