Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wedding Bells. In Springfield, Mo., Anna L. Hindman, suing for divorce, charged that her TV-engineer husband wired their bed with an electric "shocking machine" to enforce his edict that four hours of sleep a night is enough.
Wedlocked. In London, John W. Wiseman won a divorce after testifying that his wife had hit him with a pair of fireplace tongs, jabbed him with a knife, thrown boiling water at him, stubbed out a cigarette on his arm, and slapped his mouth with a bunch of keys.
The newspaperman learns that a girl with whom he has been living has casually let herself be sterilized, and that a debutante with whom he would like to play house is all too fertile. He arranges for an abortion, although he is not the deb's undoer. He is...
Novelist Monsey writes very well, but not very convincingly. His sentences, paragraphs and pages are apt and forceful, and for the most part sustain the moods he intends. But taken a chapter or so at a time, the writing wars with itself. The reader may wonder whether the author really...
When TV's foremost up-from-the-ranks production tycoons, Cinemactress Lucille Ball and Bandleader Desi Arnaz, were married in 1940, acquaintances of the volatile lovebirds gave their union six months at most before an inevitable explosion would send them on separate ways. Lucy herself doubted that the match...