At Harvard summer school last year, Sophomore Leland Cummings Jr. met Mary Louise Werner. Her father was a wealthy industrialist from Milwaukee, his father a comfortably fixed chemical engineer from Wyncote, Pa. When it came to talk of marriage, there was troublebut not the kind a faithful moviegoer would expect. Industrialist Arnold J. Werner liked his daughter's college-boy suitor; the boy's family was the one to object. The reason, they said, was that Lutheran Werner was leading Leland away from his Roman Catholic faith.
In Circuit Court, Milwaukee County, the Catholic Cummingses said it with a $500,000 lawsuit against the Lutheran Werners....
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