Word: bride
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Black, 53, didn't go very far after she paid her $1,100 rent at Manhattan's Imperial House, why not move back in with him? Black thought the idea a bit nutty, considering the fact that he already had company at his place in Westchester-his bride of two months, brunette Singer Page Morton, 32. But dear Jean persisted, and the New York State Supreme Court finally had to tell her that three's a crowd, even in 28 rooms. She might have had better luck with the place's previous owner: Tommy Manville...
...Juan is tougher and more intelligent than his amiable son, who does not seem eager for the throne, but Juan Carlos might be chosen simply because he is not controversial. Last week some saw significance in Franco's gift to Juan Carlos and his bride of the glittering little palace of Zarzuela, near Franco's own Pardo palace, for their Madrid residence. But even if Juan Carlos actually chooses to live there, he will not necessarily have a role in Spain's affairs. His studies are finished ; he could not very well hobnob with Franco...
...lewdly adapted from the plays of Plautus, who should really have been named Sub-Plautus. He was a genius at inventing endless slapsticky plot complications. The story is that Pseudolus (Zero Mostel), a slave, will be granted his freedom if he can secure as his master's bride a dumb blonde virgin (Preshy Marker) who has completed her basic training as a courtesan. After a dilatory start, George Abbott's pell-mell direction crosscuts from the chaste to the chase. Pseudolus must foil all the males who are panting after dumb blonde virgins. Sharing the frantic antics...
Eudora Welty will give a reading from her fiction tonight at 8 p.m. in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. Miss Welty's works include several volumes of short stories: A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Bride of Innisfallen; a book of interrelated stories: The Golden Apples; a novel: Delta Wedding; and two short novels: The Robber Bridgeroom and The Ponder Heart. She has received three O. Henry Memorial Prizes, two Guggenheim Awards, an Harvard from the National Institute for Arts and Letters, and in 1955 the William Dean Howells Medal, presented by the American Academy of Arts...
Then he drugs her, and when she wakes next morning in his bed, he tells her she is no longer fit to become a bride of Christ, that to save her honor she must marry him. She runs away in horror and disgust; in guilt and despair he hangs himself...