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After he married Poetess Jean Starr for the first time (she was also his third wife), wealthy Anthologist Louis Untermeyer, 64, wrote:

He lusts for freedom, cries how long Must he be bound by what controlled

him ;

Yet he is glad the chains are strong And that they hold him . . .

Last week, 30 years and four weddings later, Untermeyer walked into a Manhattan courthouse in the forlorn hope of finding out which chains legally bound. Onetime Judge Esther Antin, 50, the fourth Mrs. Untermeyer,* had asked the court to declare her his legal...

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