Then in May of 1965 I was stunned to be served with papers for divorce one copy each under every name I'd ever used legal and fictitious, every business style, even under names of the publications. My bank accounts and those of my father, my business partner and my business itself were closed down and a real nasty fight ensued. In the course of it Chevalier nearly expired because she was able to get an order passed instructing me to have all mail reaching my Chevalier box sent to a Receiver so that he could impound the money. I circum- vented this by persuading the PO employees that the forwarding applied only to business mail i.e. Chevalier Pubs. and that any- thing addressed to me personally was to be left in the box. I then wrote to the subscribers and asked that orders be addressed to me personally. This resulted in perhaps 1/3 of the income from orders coming to me. The rest was sent to the Receiver and twice a week had to go down there while his girl and I opened the mail. She kept the money and I got the letters and orders. It was, however, pretty difficult to continue printing and filling orders when the money which was to pay for the merchandise was impounded by the Re- ceiver. Fortunately my printer at the time was my friend as well as a printer and he carried me up to a debt of about $3300 before the whole mess was settled and the Receivership was closed. I then had to continue to pay him currently and to reduce this debt at the same time. But we made it as you see. If my wife had had her way she would have destroyed the magazine in order to destroy me. She was not against TVs and in fact was very concerned about their security. During all of this she had become pretty disturbed mentally and considered that I was the biggest crook around and had robbed her blind and she was going to "get" me if she could.
Once again, however, my records were clear and I was able to prove to the court appointed accountants that far from hiding out money from her, I had a well organized plan of saving and that my records were in good order, and they said so in their report. There were some other side lights to this long, unreasonable and unfair divorce action. I, of course, was grilled in court by her attorney about being a TV and asked, did I have a wig — yes I had three, I told him and did I have women's shoes, and dresses, and perfume and cos- metics etc.? I agreed that I did and when he was done I volunteered -"Mr. Schwartz you forgot something I also have about a dozen pairs of panties." This just to show him that I was not going to be cowed or browbeaten by his tactics and the judge that I was not ashamed. When the settlement finally came I was of course cleaned but good. She got 70% of the assets of the family and I got 100% of
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