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Spouse Need NOT Play Games With Wife, Divorce Court SaysLONDON, April 19 (INS)—This may not help things in households where precarious armed truces reign, but a Br.tish divorce court has upheld the light of a husband who is expert at bridge and tennis not to have to play with his wile.Adding this flfth freedom to the four laid do’vn In the Atlantic Charter, Justice Jones at the Leeds Assizes ruled that Frederics Ronald Chippindale, 84-year-old lawyer, had not inflicted cruelty on his 32-year-old wife and refused her pleaf°InsateadThe^awarded one toIhehusband instead on the grounds of the wife’s misconduct with another man.Husband 22 Years OlderMrs. Chippindale gave an imposing recital of facs in her petition. Her husband was 22 years older than she when they married in 1934. The next day, she said, her husband told her he wished they had not gotmarried- , . ,A week or two later they occupied separate rooms. He ignored her by not playing games with her, by not talking to her. by not taking her to theaters and dances.He even went on his holidays without her and took the car while she had to walk. After their first son was bom, Chippindale became a psycho-neurotic and refused to have any music around the house, tie would not even talk about the war.Adding to this last crushing accusation, Mrs. Chippindale played what, in most divorce courts, wouia be her trump card—he devoted most of his time to tennis amd bridge ana would not play with her.Stirs World Controversy Then, as calmly as if be did not realize he was exiling droves oi wives and husbands from the bridge table and tennis court, the judge observed: “It is very difficult for a good tennis piayer to play with a bad player, or a good bridge piayer to play with a bad bridge player-He ruled that .there had been no cruelty and dismissed the petition.In the meantime, Chippindale entered a cross-petition, accusing his wife of misconduct with Dr. Martin Rabl, a Czech medical of*icer attached to the British forces. The judge granted the husband ms decree.
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Southern Germany Stars and Stripes
Altdorf, Bavaria, DE
Sat, Apr 20, 1946
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