Millionaire Asbestos Heir Tommy Manville, 58, bought full-page ads in the Manhattan tabloids Daily News and Post (cost: $4,100) to announce that he had discarded another wife. This time it was No. 9: Anita Roddy-Eden, 29, after 13 days of marriage. Reporters interviewing the unhappy couple came away with the clearest account to date of the Manville marriage system. The trouble, said Mrs. Manville No. 9, began with a quarrel on the twelfth day of their honeymoon after Tommy had drunk two quarts of gin and a quart of Dubonnet at a single sitting....
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