Word: bride
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That hallowed tribal custom, the bride price, is coming under fire. Africa's young bachelors, caught between higher education and even higher inflation, are growing increasingly unhappy at the ancient laws that force the prospective groom to buy his bride from her parents. In Kenya, the dowry is often the equivalent of five years of the groom's expectable income, usually payable in postmarital installments of livestock, bicycles and money. By the time the bartering is over and the wedding rolls around, only his in-laws have much cause for celebration: rather than losing a daughter, they...
After a wartime marriage to French Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux, Rubi in 1947 married Doris Duke, heiress to the $100 million Duke tobacco fortune. Doubtlessly out of respect for the bride's family, Rubi smoked a cigarette all through the ceremony in Paris (Doris provided the ring), but the marriage lasted only 13 months. Doris was, as he said, "extremely generous," and he went on to become corespondent in two society divorce suits and, in 1953, Husband No. 5 of Dime Store Heiress Barbara Hutton. Babs and Rubi flew aboard a chartered Super Constellation from Manhattan to Palm Beach...
...Francis Cardinal Spellman on July 26 in a private chapel in the cardinal's residence. Barbara, some friends report, feels that New York City is a great place to visit and all that, but would like to live elsewhere. The newest buzz is that Bob may oblige his bride by running for Governor Nelson Rockefeller's house in Albany next year...
...Every American bride is taken here," reported Oscar Wilde after visiting Niagara Falls in 1882. "This waterfall," he added, "must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest disappointments in American married life...
...pert, Wellesley-trained social worker named Lucille Ellis at a Thanksgiving party, married her after a three-month courtship. "We danced a lot," says Lucille Simon of the courtship. "While he isn't that winning a dancer, his dialogue is great." For a honeymoon, Simon took his bride on a cruise through the Panama Canal, then went on a week's tour of East Coast steel mills to learn about the tin making that affected his tomato canning. One stop: at Wheeling Steel in West Virginia, where Simon informed Lucille: "Some day I'm going to be in the steel...