The Mirror gave extensive space to the jilted British war bride previously encountered in the Sunday News. "A GI who burns his Bridgets behind him should make sure he doesn't do it in the way Frankie Walters did," the lead paragraph read. This Bridget had arrived at La Guardia on the TWA "Stars of Paris" flight and then held a press conference at the Hotel Commodore where she was staying with her 11-month old son.
She had married her Frankie in Cheshire while he was stationed in England. They had been living together for six months when he went off to France in the fall of 1944. Three months later she had their baby. He wrote back to her that a French woman he had recently met had convinced him that the marriage was a mistake. He promised her $50 a month and that was the last she heard from him until she received divorce papers filed in Niagara Falls charging mental cruelty. Now he was planning to get the divorce in Las Vegas where it was easier to obtain. Apparently a lot of war brides had found themselves in similar situations, but this one was not about to take it lying down.
Bridget hopped a plane in Paris, where the ticket was cheaper than in London. She called Frankie from her hotel room putting on quite the show for the reporters. She told them she planned on giving him the divorce he wanted but was suing him for $8,000 in damages, a monthly allowance and "anything else that is lying around."