CALIFORNIA: After 2,304 Years

Hollywood Manufacturer Ralph Gordon Fear, 55, has interesting theories about time and reincarnation. In 1939 he explained it to: 1) his wife, 2) his secretary.

Last week wife No. 2, ex-secretary Arline Peak Fear, also applied for divorce, tried to explain it all to Judge Henry M. Willis. Said she: Ralph Gordon Fear married his first wife only 800 years ago. But when he was a Roman warrior (2,300 years ago, to be exact) he had married an earlier incarnation of Arline Peak Fear. Result: wife No. 1 recognized wife No. 2’s seniority, quietly got her divorce and $2,000,000, Describing the first meeting of Mr. Fear and the two Mrs. Fears, Arline Fear testified: “Out at the desert cottage we died again, time rolled on, and I passed out from too many drinks.”

At this point Judge Willis asked: “Just what, off the record, are they talking about?”