People, may 17, 1954

Names make news. Last week these names made this news:

None of Asbestos Heir Tommy Manville's first eight wives ever succeeded in smoking him out into court to fight a divorce brawl. Playboy Manville, 60, in escaping his previous marriages, barely dented his $20 million mad money. But shrewd Anita Roddy-Eden Manville, No. 9, enticed Tommy into a Manhattan court last week. Anita, 31, wanted a fatter payoff in her separation agreement: $1,250 a week instead of the piddling $1,000 a month she gets. When their honeymoon was only two days old, Anita testified,...

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