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Breathing heavily, his Bible under his arm, Poet John Milton climbed into the bridal bed. He read his "numb and stark" bride, Marie, a few snatches from the Song of Solomon ("How beautiful is my beloved ..."), marked the place with a rose petal, then pushed Marie out of bed to give thanks that the species had been created male and female. When Marie complained that the bridal party had given her a fierce hangover, Mr. Milton lost patience. "Phlegmatic and ungrateful wretch!" he barked. "What a froward, drivelling flibbergib have I taken to my bosom!" Then he booted...
...Hazel Hatfield Sproul, 44, daughter of West Virginia's onetime Governor Henry Hatfield, descendant of the feuding Hatfields (v. McCoys) , mother-in-law of President Fairless' son, Navy Lieut. Elaine Fairless ; both for the second time; in Huntington, W. Va. Lieut. and Mrs. Fairless attended the bridal couple...
...about overcrowded Washington, with more than the usual number of fake marriages, misunderstandings, eccentric bit-players, and mirror mazes of French-farcically-slamming doors. Doughgirls Ann Sheridan, Alexis Smith and Jane Wyman and would-be Husbands John Ridgely, Craig Stevens and Jack Carson, are joined in their already overflowing "bridal" suite by such incongruities as 1) an exuberant Russian lady sniper (Eve Arden), who insists on firing three-gun salutes out the window, 2) a pompous bureaucrat (John Alexander), who is investigating a process for turning soy beans into auto fuel, 3) another bureaucrat (Charles Ruggles), who is too amorous...
...passed two German officers headed along to our prison stockade, passed a column of young dandies on bicycles, a young Italian bridal couple, the bride trim and shapely in a grey suit adorned by a bright nosegay...
...bridal suite of Moscow's National Hotel last week, burly, beaming Father Stanislaus Orlemanski put his extra rabats into his suitcase, made ready to return to the U.S. and his Polish-American parishioners at Springfield, Mass.* But first, as a volunteer Polish-Catholic emissary to the U.S.S.R., he had several things to do. Back to the Kremlin he went for a second two-hour talk with Joseph Stalin and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov. They were, he said, "two great men." The talks, he said, produced "results beyond my expectations...