Miscellany, Dec. 13, 1943

Cultural Note. In Washington, a patent was awarded to the inventor of an ultraviolet-ray device that 1) makes empty seats in a movie house visible, 2) gives the audience a gentle ultraviolet bath during the show.

Private Lives. In Wilmington, Del., Mrs. Olive Robertson complained to a judge that she had caught her husband kissing the blonde who had been sleeping in the Robertsons' bed with them because of the housing shortage. She won $16 a week support. In Pittsburgh, Mrs. Florence P. Wagner complained that her husband had introduced friends to her while she was taking a bath. She won a...

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