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...country, his throne and his fortune to the Communists. The bride was losing the blessing of her church for marrying outside its dispensation, and the bride's parents stayed away. But in Athens last week,wearing borrowed Greek crowns, Orthodox Michael of Rumania and Catholic Anne of Bourbon-Parma were at long length married...
Married. Deposed King Michael of Rumania, 26, Hohenzollern prince; and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma, 24; in Athens (see INTERNATIONAL...
...season's noisiest courtship approached a quiet wedding. After nearly seven bumpy months of stops & starts, separations & reunions, rumors & denials, and considerable mixing & marching by relatives, ex-King Michael of Rumania and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma flew down to Athens from Geneva to get it done in private. Announced the Royal Palace: Roman Catholic Anne would positively marry Greek Orthodox Michael this week in the Greek Orthodox Church. Sole witnesses to be present: the royal families, the Greek Premier, and the Foreign Minister and his wife...
...smooth sailing. In Eugene a group of student hecklers from the University of Oregon plopped down in the front row, diligently leafed through copies of LIFE with a picture of Harold Stassen on the cover. In Portland, Dewey refused a drink of bourbon offered by a local politico, ducked out for his own bottle of Scotch. Commented a local columnist: "Out West here, podner, men have been shot for refusing to drink out of the common cookin' likker bottle and then showing up with their own pizen...
This book is like an evening of mellow talk over bourbon and water. Its author, who once wrote a bestseller about the Sears-Roebuck catalogue, was born and raised in the Mississippi Delta country he writes about. Instead of a serious study of the cotton economy and the problem of race relations, he has reported loquaciously, and with the leisurely humor of an old-school Mississippian, on the moods and customs of Delta society...