Shakespeare might have made it up—but only after a short course in modern publicity methods. Wealthy Manhattan Attorney Walter R. Herrick didn’t want his 20-year-old daughter Eileen to marry a dark-haired cafe socialite named George Lowther III. Romeo Lowther, a Yale man, would not be stopped. He hired a lawyer, made Parent Herrick produce his sheltered daughter in court, announced that they would elope if he had to get a fire department tower truck backed up against the Herrick apartment, finally collaborated with the tabloid Daily News to spirit Eileen off and marry her.
All this happened back in 1939—when it was a tabloid sensation. Last week in Los Angeles Eileen Herrick Lowther sued George Lowther III for divorce.
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