Word: bride
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clarence Dillon's only son was born Aug. 21, 1909 in Geneva, while the Baron and his bride were on a two-year post-honeymoon "health tour" of Europe. "My father was injured in a bizarre accident just before his marriage," Doug Dillon explains. "He was at a railroad station in a small resort outside Milwaukee when an express went by the station at full speed. A Saint Bernard had wandered onto the tracks; the train hit him and threw him into the crowd. The dog's body knocked my father against a pillar, breaking his skull...
Died. Mary Landon Baker, 61, eccentric altar ego, tabloid-titillating ''shy bride" of the 1920's, who left Millionaire Fiancé Alister McCormick at the Chicago church three times in 1922, spurned all the rest of her claimed 65 proposals from an Almanach de Gotha of suitors, made even her well-heeled father "fed up to the limit with Mary's caprices"; in London...
...Churchill at the time. But Seretse stayed banished for six years, the Bamangwato rumbled their discontent, and Nicholas Monsarrat based a novel on the story (The Tribe That Lost Its Head). Only by renouncing all claims to the chieftaincy did Seretse finally get permission to return home with his bride...
...heavy as lead, but I love it." Came another, pushed too hard by the salesman: "Yes, I see how lovely it looks on the rack. You can just leave it there." At Alper-Schwartz she examined a pale green brocade: "That's a good mother-of-the-bride." At Ceil Chapman, she picked up a beaded taupe silk chiffon sheath (retail price: $395). At Estévez, she bought a few items that the trade describes as "church-and-drinking dresses"-they can go anywhere. "Air conditioning has changed the picture," said Opal, as she examined some woolens. "Used...
...Pleasure of His Company (Paramount) is requested at the wedding of Miss Debbie Reynolds to Mr. Tab Hunter at Grace Cathedral, Nob Hill, San Francisco. Because the requested company is that of debonair Fred Astaire, playboy father of the bride, there is bound to be some bounce. And with Lilli Palmer, Fred's ex-wife and the bride's mother, handling the arrangements, one can expect grace and polish. But otherwise, it is a Nytol nuptial. Where the 1958 Broadway play (by Samuel Taylor "with" Cornelia Otis Skinner) set in motion a sea of social-comedy soap bubbles...