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...society belles to wear a bridal veil and are just as much entitled to." Miss Morgan priced her nuptials on a sliding scale, beginning with a curt ceremony in street clothes for $10. For $75, she offered a hall, flowers, music, minister or magistrate, bride's trousseau and bouquet, six prop bridesmaids (gowned), a flower girl, announcements, a photograph of the whole business. Miss Morgan had some ministers (anonymous) on call, said she would pay them from $5 to $25 per ceremony. Thrice married, thrice divorced, Miss Morgan believes she knows "the wedding field." Says she: "Nothing...
...like gunnery, never learned to like army discipline. While he was in training at Camp Knox, Ky., he and Edith Wilk, onetime town librarian of Elwood, were married. Held up by a blizzard, Lieutenant Willkie was two days late for the wedding, turned up with a frozen, bedraggled bridal bouquet. Sweet-faced Edith Wilk carried it to the altar...
Sorry I cannot accept the bouquet tossed at me in TIME, July 10, under Transport, and for the record I am giving you below the information as to how the Quiet Birdmen received its name...
...stations along the troop-lined streets. Out of his special train stepped puzzled-looking, Oxford-bred Regent Prince Paul, whom Germans quickly nicknamed "Prince Charming." In his most winning manner Herr Hitler greeted the Prince while Frau Göring handed Princess Olga, the Regent's wife, a bouquet of roses, welcomed her to Naziland...
...party, arriving in Berlin, were treated with the greatest consideration. The President's daughter was given a great big bouquet of yellow roses tied with a red bow (on which was stamped a swastika). The party, taken to the Adlon Hotel to wash up, found their suite banked with "more flowers than had ever been in the hotel before." (There were also more steel-helmeted military sentries in the hotel than usual.) As a sobering sight, Nazis let Dr. Hácha review some troops while he waited...