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...city of Waukegan whose merchants claim $125,000 annual business from local marriage mills, the week brought an end to their role of Illinois' Gretna Green. Illinois quick-marriage business will go to neighboring States. but not to Wisconsin, which already required Wasserman tests of males and which last week extended the requirement to females. As if Illinois' antivenereal restrictions weren't enough the State this week awaited its Governor's signature to a law requiring posting of three days' notice of intent...
...York and West Virginia Legislatures passed laws requiring three days' notice of intention to marry. To the conservative clergy's satisfaction, out of business went blatant, self-advertising ministers in West Virginia's "Gretna Green," Wellsburg. In Westchester County, handy to Manhattan, justices of peace found a profitable hasty-wedding trade cut off. Likewise in Maryland a two-day law disposed of a once-popular maritopolis, Elkton...
Typical last week was an editorial in the New York World-Telegram: " 'The Wreck of the Old 97,' according to the Supreme Court, belongs not to a soulless corporation but to a flesh and blood minstrel, David Graves George of Gretna, Va." But, unfortunately for Minstrel George, his wife, his 14 children and the World-Telegram editorial writer, the Supreme Court had not undertaken to decide the ownership of the ballad. All it-The Press estimated the royalties as high as $2,000,000. A more likely figure is $375,006.* had done was to pass...
...long drive (307½ mi.) from London to Gretna Green, traditional goal of British elopers, Michael and Catherine have a lot to think about. She had been married to a War neurotic whose insane jealousy had finally driven her away. The night she left he had shot himself; she still felt responsible. When she was beginning to get over it she met Michael and they fell in love. Before they had progressed very far she discovered that his possessiveness was developing into jealousy too much like her first husband's. She could not risk another tragedy: they broke...
...Gretna. La., Cadet Cagle, aged 23, had married Marion Munford Haile. He returned to West Point to sign certificates that he had not violated the Academy's strict rule against cadets marrying. Mrs. Cagle taught school in Louisiana as Miss Haile, kept out of sight, never saw her husband drill or play football...