Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-07

n pickle on top makes the heart 60
FLIPPITY FLOPl"
PAVING had three wives but still hang
- ing on 10 half a million dollars made
by selling hamburgers each with a
pickle on top Mr.. Samuel V Blair Of Flint
Michigan was entitled TO peaceful retirement
at the age OF II
But he neglected 10 do SO
Instead OF simplifying his affairs nc an
nouneed that life had begun al over for him
and that he was going TO ride the moon.
The inspiration for this ambition was a
lady just so years younger than himself who
became his fourth wife Mrs Betty Blair
Betty though scarcely old enough TO vote,
had been married twice before and supposed
that this moon rodeo idea, referred 10 the high
time they would have on their honeymoon
Also Betty says that he promised 10 make
her Independently wealthy. Therefore the very
day she received her second divorce which was
financed by Mr.. Blair Betty told him TO bring
on his moony honeymoon.
And he did.
"A pickle on top makes the heart 20 flip
pity-flop" is the slogan which made the Ham
burger King rich II was the inspiration ~ his
life The pickle feature made all the girls fall
for his hamburger which is shaped somewhat
like a full moon
piled TO "A honeymoon
According to all concerned this honeymoon
was a thoroughly "pckcd' one with no doubts
except as 20 which party 90 the strange pro-
ccedings drank the most
The result was worse than a common night
mare II was more like a delrum tremens,
because the trip was in manner of speak
ing. chaperoned by Mrs. opal Smith who not
so long ago had been the third Mrs Blair
A Mrs GYnit
no alcoholic halucination but actually present
in the flesh She does not seem TO have
crashed the party and yet who invited her is
vague, like most things seen through glass
darkly"
In the divorce suit and countersut which
logically followed such illogical situation,
some said II was the elderly bridegroom while
others blamed it on Betty, the blushng bride
for the third time
Anyhow. it was Mr. Blair who paid $500
travelling expenses for this unusual excess
baggage" so it must have been his idea.
But then he complains that Betty slept
with opal every night, SO maybe 1t was her
idea.
opal insists that both invited her and she
merely went along because IT provided free
transportation in the direction OF Alaska
How can any sober person figure il out?
The mystery seems 10 have been too deep
for Circuit Judge Louis G Cramton, of Flint
In granting the divorce TO the Hamburger
Merchant together with few financial
crumbs to Betty, the Judge criticized all three
and referred TO Mrs. opal Smith as the most
unusual figure in the case.
According TO the evidence. Bettys divorce
decree became final on November 9, 1910, and
that very day the pair united in bonds of
matrimony across a gulf OF half century.
The moment this was done, at Toledo, Ohio
they hurried TO Flint where the pickle ap-
peared in a grand celebration at the Flint Attn
letic Club.
On the witness stand Mr.. Blair admitted
that he became very intoxicated and adj
mtted as much for his bride.
Somehow, they got from the club to the
train which was TO take them TO the Pacific
Coast In this alcoholic fog. with taXis. por-
tors. railroad stations and such things looming