Passion & Pork Chops

MANNERS & MORALS

Blonde Mrs. Dorothy Lawlor, who had advertised her willingness to marry any man for $10,000 (TIME, June 7), made her choice. It was Dan Wicker, 33, proprietor of Danny's Musical Bar in Daytona Beach, Fla. The clincher had been a telegram from Danny: "Is you is, or is you ain't gonna be my baby?" Sighed Dorothy: "How could I resist a guy with a sense of humor like that?"

Wicker had promptly wired money for a plane ticket, created a Dorothy Lawlor Special for his bar trade. Leaving La Guardia Field, Mrs. Lawlor displayed a photograph of Mr. Wicker, commented: "Anyone who can't be happy with that guy is a moron." She added wistfully: "I do wish, though, that I had met Dan under different circumstances. I know instinctively that we have a lot in common."

Danny waited, eager but businesslike. No money had yet changed hands. "You don't buy pork chops without seeing them on the scales," said Danny.

Other U.S. women seized on Dorothy's lead to put themselves on the marriage block. In Seattle, Mrs. Dorothy McDonald, 23, offered herself in exchange for a home and $10,000. In Middletown, Conn., Miss Nellie Wolan, 34, offered her six-room house for "an affectionate husband" between 35 and 50 years old ("I'm very affectionate myself," she explained). A Lexington, Ky. woman declared she would pay $10,000 for a man. And the Rev. E. L. Burr of Temperance, Mich, announced that he was looking for a husband for his mother-in-law.

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