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That picture of a demure young bride-to-be is not by Bradford Bachrach but by a salesman lucky enough to have had a camera in hand when Olga Korbut tried on a wedding gown in a St. Louis suburb. The darling of the 1972 Olympics, who is on an eleven-city U.S. tour with the U.S.S.R. National Gymnastics Team, pulled out three crisp $100 bills in J.C. Penney's to buy the gown and matching veil (total: $225). Olga, 21, plans to be married back home next year. Who is the lucky guy? "Just an ordinary boy," shrugs...
...your duty, haughty bride, to serve...
Apart from the bride and groom, the happiest person at next week's Beverly Hills wedding may well be the fellow who controls the car-parking concession. Some 800 guests have been summoned to the lavish black-tie garden party to watch sometime Actress Marisa Berenson (Barry Lyndon), 29, hook up with Rivet Manufacturer James Randall, 32. The bride will don a gown by Valentino for the occasion, and she says that her attendants "will wear whatever they wish to wear." They will not, says Marisa, dress in shocking pink in memory of her late grandmother, Designer Elsa Schiaparelli...
Other couples, meanwhile, have made some connubial plans of their own. Chevy Chase, 33, who recently quit his job as Saturday Night funnyman to create TV specials for NBC, will marry in December. His bride-to-be: Actress-Model Jacqueline Carlin, 27, whom he met two years ago. Swedish Tennis Star Bjorn Borg, 20, has exchanged engagement rings with Mariana Simionescu, 19, Rumania's second-ranked woman tennis player until her defection to the U.S. this month. Tennis groupies, take heart. Mariana reports that she and this year's Wimbledon singles champ have not yet set a date...
...amiable counsel on her entire generation. Three decades later, Mary Morgan Councille is an organizer of conferences, a divorcee and, as of last week, the second Mrs. Spock. The recently divorced doctor, now 73 and a vice-presidential candidate for the microscopic People's Party, met his bride last year while participating in one of her conferences on "the use and abuse of power." That weekend, says Spock, "we fell madly in love." For the wedding in Little Rock, Ark., the county clerk's office presented the couple with its standard gift: a bag containing mouthwash, deodorant...