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...Rabbit" and "Buck Rabbit," as they called each other before the magic went out of their twice-dissolved marriage, have finally split for keeps. Dropping her appeal to the second divorce (May 1962), Muriel Marston, 49, third wife of ailing Tobacco Heir Richard Joshua Reynolds, 57, will let him go unfettered to a fourth wife he had somehow acquired between court hassles. Cost to Reynolds by terms of an out-of-court settlement: $2,142,624 in alimony (largest recorded in Georgia history), including $500,000 for Muriel's lawyers, plus a written guarantee not to disturb...
Pickering's progress was smooth and steady. B.S., M.S., Ph.D.-he got all the requisite degrees. He stayed on in Pasadena to join the Caltech faculty, get married to a pretty Pomona girl named Muriel Bowler and conduct cosmic ray studies under Millikan. In 1944, when JPL missiles and rockets had become sophisticated enough to require a cargo of accurate telemetering equipment, Pickering was the inevitable choice to supervise the work; he was an acknowledged expert in the electronics art of long-distance measurement and control...
That was last May. Last week the state supreme court was again hearing an appeal from Muriel. The Reynolds divorce action had already taken up 8,000 pages of testimony, and cost Reynolds alone more than $750,000 in lawyers' fees...
...half of it. After the first trial, he was cabled by his lawyers that a motion for a new trial had been denied. Reynolds therefore felt free to marry a German girl named Annemarie Schmitt, who was taking a round-the-world cruise with him at the time. But Muriel's lawyers had quickly appealed the denial to the Georgia Supreme Court, leaving Buck and Doe Rabbit still legally...
...Muriel's lawyers contend that Reynolds is therefore an adulterer, and adulterers cannot sue for divorce in Georgia. Reynolds thought he answered that one at the second trial, when he explained that his marriage to Annemarie had (because of doctor's orders) "never been consummated as a marriage between man and wife." Reynolds had no more to say on the subject last week. He had found some new digs in Switzerland, where he was staying with Annemarie, who might or might not be Wife...