Word: bride
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pretending that he is at death's door, with a fortune in nuggets to bestow. His greedy victims vie desperately with one another to show their love for Lahr. One of the sourdoughs, after snapping up a comely virgin for $33,000 on the Yukon's bullish bride market, even offers Bert the jus primae noctis. As for the gift, red-haired Julienne Marie, her wistful eyes and liquid singing voice alone are worth twice the auction price. Larry Blyden also shines as Dr. Mosk, the stethoscope-packing con man who masterminds Lahr's hoax...
...Mission: to shoot the rapids of the swirling Rio Grande as it passes through 1,900-ft.-deep Mariscal Canyon in Texas' Big Bend National Park. A jagged rock gashed one raft, temporarily putting it out of commission, but Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 65, and his bride of six months negotiated the hair-raising 14 miles of pounding waves, treacherous turns and large rocks without a spill. First-Timer Joan Douglas, 23, dug it the most. "It was the thrill of a lifetime," she bubbled. "It's for me. I want to do some more...
Married. Joan Fontaine, 46, best remembered as Laurence Olivier's bedeviled bride in Rebecca; and Alfred Wright Jr., 48, senior editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED; she for the fourth time, he for the third; in Elkton...
Governor of Martinique, and soon decamped with him for France. There, to strengthen her position, she contrived a marriage between Beauharnais's son Alexander and her niece, Josephine, just turned 16. When Alexander met his bride on her arrival at Brest, he wrote cautiously to his father: "Mademoiselle will perhaps seem less pretty to you than you expect." She was, in fact, an awkward, unschooled girl from the colonies. Alexander tried, without success, to teach his wife to spell and to tutor her in history, but soon lost interest and was living away from home by the time their...
...Here comes the bride," sang the host, a tall, genial man standing in the cabin with a highball in his hand, the very picture of relaxation. And when Lady Bird appeared, smiling tolerantly, he planted a resounding husband's kiss on her cheek. Later, he resumed his attentions to his guests-among them, two of the some dozen slightly incredulous members of the Washington press corps. They were all down on the L.B.J. ranch in Texas by invitation of the President, and it was a weekend none of them is likely to forget...