TV Radio Mirror (Jan - Jun 1963)

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can do part of the world's important work." My big question to Gloria about the children, who range from fourteen down to two years of age, proved a very sore point with her. "Joe, it's been reported, is supposed to have told the children himself about the divorce," I said, then asked pointblank: "Is that true?" Gloria's reply came in a tense, tremulous voice. "No. Joe never had the courage even to discuss this thing with the children. Never once at all. "The older children read about it in the newspapers — and about his remarriage. "Fortunately, I had prepared them beforehand. When Joe and I began to discuss the divorce finally, I got the children together and told them that According to those stories, Carol and Joe had left New York late Friday, May 3rd. They were accompanied by Carol's 18-year-old sister, Christine. After changing planes in Houston, they went on to El Paso and crossed the border. Ordinarily, civil marriage on Saturday in Mexico is a virtual impossibility. The courts are closed. But Hamilton and Carol were said to have petitioned Judge Baltazar Aquire to open his chambers, and he agreed. Arrangements for the divorce itself assertedly were made in advance by Joe's West Coast attorney, Simon Taub. The grounds, in Mexican terminology: "Incompatability of temperament." Under Mexican law, only one party in the divorce is required to be present. The other may be represented by counsel, power of attorney or, in the absence of either, can be notified by writ, had been going on for so long . . ." Gloria tightened her jaw and pressed her lips together before continuing. "Speaking from my own experience, I can tell you ... the wife isn't always the last to know. "There comes a point — and I finally reached it — when it becomes necessary to take steps to build a new life for yourself. As a woman married to Joe Hamilton, I realized I could never do that. Now I am married no longer and I'm free to plan." With that opening, I asked Gloria if there was anyone else in her life. "I wish I could say there was," she said with fervor. The thought of falling in love seemed all at once to give Gloria a feeling of exhilaration. But it appeared to take flight just as quickly, as she carried the discussion further. "I haven't had a chance to meet any Took My Husband! 99 their father wouldn't be living with us anymore. 'You'll understand better when you are older,' I told them — but I wonder if they will. "I had to tell them beforehand. It was cruel enough for them to hear reports on TV and in the newspapers without trying to prepare them for that shock . . ." Again Gloria's words faded as emotion overwhelmed her. "When did you finally give Joe the okay to get the divorce?" I asked Gloria, after allowing her a few moments to compose herself. "Joe didn't divorce me," she said in a grim, determined voice. "I got the divorce. I'd like to make that clear. "I was the complainant in the case!" I had to interrupt Gloria and cite the published reports from Juarez — that Hamilton had gotten the divorce. in which case the divorce is held up only until the paper is served. Gloria listened to what I had to say, quoting from the various sources that had provided me with my information on the divorce. "They're not true," Gloria said firmly. "I made the decision. I got the divorce. It wasn't necessary for me to go to Juarez, because I was represented there by attorney Arnold Krakower. He'd have to tell you the grounds — I really don't know. I wasn't interested in the* legal machinery. All I wanted finally was to be rid of all this trouble. "I made the decision, as I've said. But not necessarily to free my husband so he could marry Carol Burnett, or anyone else for that matter. I simply felt I had had enough of marriage to Joe. "It's been very difficult. This thing one really. I've stuck so close to the children in the last year, trying to protect them from what finally happened, that my interests have been very limited. "Now . . . now that it's over, it becomes a problem of my own emotional survival. Yet I've learned a lot over the past year. And the most important lesson I've been taught is that you do recover— no matter how badly you're hurt. Time cures a lot of things. "That's why I decided to go all the way and end my marriage completely. That was why I got the divorce." I next brought up a question about Gloria still being in love with Joe. Kip had told me: "Gloria, of course, still loves my brother. She'll always love him . . ." I sensed Gloria's disturbance immediately. (Continued on page 86) 41