Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Out of the offices of the Rockefeller Bros, in mid-Manhattan one evening last week marched nine messengers. Minutes later, they delivered to the city's seven daily newspapers and to two national wire services a bare-boned, four-paragraph announcement. After 31 years of marriage, Republican Governor Nelson...
The news caught New York almost completely by surprise; even the New York Times, which is ordinarily not much interested in such mundane matters as divorce, made it the leading story of the day. Raising their five children while ranging from Manhattan to the family estate at Pocantico Hills in...
The lover turns jealously possessive and deliberately tips off the husband. Instead of suing for divorce, the dentist breaks into sobs. Touchingly needful of his wife, who refuses to choose between the two men, the dentist puts an unconventional proposal to the lover: a kind of manger à trois, dinner...
While their lawyers squabbled over who should be supporting whom after their pending divorce. Songstress Rosemary Clooney (who said she earned only $55,000 last year while her husband was making four times as much) was granted $1,500-a-month interim alimony from Actor-Director José Ferrer and...
Still, a new kind of problem child has replaced the vanishing orphan in the U.S.'s conscience. He is the child who is homeless as a result of divorce, illegitimacy, parental abuse or mental illness-orphaned in spirit if not in fact. There are 283,000 of these children...