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Show Bridge Couple Announce Plans-for-Reno-Divorce NEW YORK, Doc. 1 (INS) Temperament, the uninvited fifth at the bridge table, gunk the Culbertsons today but not at the table. To Europe sailed Ely while hit wife headed for Reno via I California, leaving behind formal notice that their marriage part- fncrship was at an end. Ely took all th blunt for failure of hearts to oom through. "This is not a case of 'another oumaii' or lnothr man."' h Id. "Jo (Mrs. Josephine Culbertaon) has always bn my grand romance and alwaya will he Mnfrtunet.y. I am a married man with bachelor instincts. Complete solitude I often my most precious and most ncs-sary ncs-sary requirement "Th wonder to me Is not that Jo la divorcing me now, but that she was able to stand my temperamental tem-peramental outbursts all these years. WeH,-1 anyway, Jo is still my favorite bridge partner." Mra. Culbertaon also called a spade a apadeT "Ely la a very food father and a loyal partner," her atatement read. "He will remain my friend and I will continue to work with him, but hie temperamental mood make lit Imponsible for me to live with him. But Ely ia atill my favorite partner." Mental cruelty will be her grounds for divorce. The announcements were Issued jointly by their attorneys and also carried the information that the coauthors co-authors of the Culbertson bridge system, will continue as business partners In Culbertson, Inc., that l Mrs. Culbertson will receive half of her husband's property and income in-come amounting to about $100,000 l per year for maintenance of herself her-self and their two children, and that euetedy ef th ehiHree) will be shared. i Mrs. Culbertson sailed for California Cali-fornia on the S. S. Pennsylvania on Saturday and will go direct to Reno to establish residence. Culbertson's passage to Europe was booked on the Queen Mary. |