Chicago’s perennial honeymooner, by his own admission, Judge Joseph Sabath celebrated his sixty-fourth birthday in his home at the Chicago Beach Hotel. It was a quiet affair with his two sons, a daughter and seven grandchildren his guests at an informal dinner.
Judge Sabath in his eighteen years of service on the bench in Chicago has heard-more than 38,000 divorce cases–more than any other living judge.
“I’m still on my honeymoon,” he said, “although next August 8 Mrs. Sabath and I will celebrate our forty-sixth wedding anniversary. My own happy marriage has enabled me to suggest successfully how thousands of couples who have come before me might compose their differences and give marriage another trial.”
The Sabath apartment was banked with floral offerings from friends and he spent a large part of the day reading congratulatory letters and telegrams from all parts of the country, many of them from some of the 3,000 couples he had reconciled.
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