Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...individualistic Douglas-who has served 27 years on the court-to repeat a half-serious offer to resign from the bench, tendered to President Kennedy after his second divorce in 1963. His first marriage, to Mildred Riddle, ended in 1953 after 30 years and two children; his second, to Divorcee Mercedes Hester Davidson, lasted nine years; his third, to Joan Carol Martin, 26, broke up last December after two years, four months...
However, the extramarital affair does not lead straight to the divorce court. The median divorce age in the U.S. is 32. In the 40s and 50s, divorce is major surgery, and a man is reluctant to cut that much life out of his life. Besides, time sometimes taunts the older...
Even as they push for a revision of Catholic marriage rules, the theologians concede that any change will be slow in coming. Faced with a possibly revolutionary decision involving the church's stand on birth control, prudent Pope Paul VI is most unlikely to follow it up with an...
Trumpet Player Chet Baker, still waiting at Los Angeles Airport at the hour his trio was due to perform in a nightclub near San Francisco, took his horn into a phone booth, piped his third of the music 350 miles north by wire and loudspeaker. A pretty young girl, pleading...
Married. William O. Douglas, 67, U.S. Supreme Court Justice; and Cathleen Curran Heffernan, 23, a senior at Portland, Ore.'s Roman Catholic Marylhurst College, he for the fourth time; in Encino, Calif., just three weeks after his divorce from his third wife, Joan Martin, 26, and three days after...