Word: bridegroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lemonade Lather. By the molten chocolate ribbon of the mighty Mekong River, Co Ha and the bridegroom whom her father had selected sat down before a long table set out with roast chickens, pig, steaming white rice, and jar after jar of yellow rice wine and white-lightning chum-chum. Despite the wedding finery that set off her lustrous black hair, the bride-to-be sat among the wedding guests blinking back her tears. She had already protested that she did not want to marry the wealthy but middle-aged landowner chosen by her father, that her true love...
...doused her hair in sweet lemonade, and before her father, the bridegroom or any of the guests could recover their senses, shaved herself bald-which to good Buddhists signifies the renunciation of all fleshly pleasures and was, therefore, a flaming insult to the groom...
...Hollywood, it was a confirmed fact that Cinemactress Rita (Fire Down Below) Hayworth, 39, is going to marry her boss, Writer-Producer James Hill, 41. of the Midas-touch Hecht-Hill-Lancaster independent moviemaking outfit. Eying his prospects of being Rita's fifth bridegroom, Bachelor Hill, now busy with a screen version of Separate Tables that will star Rita, avidly wants "Rita to find happiness when she marries again. She has had so much unhappiness in her life" (with Oilman Edward Judson, Actor Orson Welles, Prince Aly Khan and Crooner Dick Haymes). As usual when altar-bound. Bride...
...July 1947, newly naturalized as plain British Lieut. Philip Mountbatten, the ex-Prince of Greece, a relatively poverty-stricken sailor with only one suit of civvies to his name, moved into Kensington Palace to await the ordeal of becoming a bridegroom. "That poor young navy officer," moaned a royal valet, " he don't even have no hairbrushes...
Grinning like a bridegroom at his third wedding, Detroit's James Riddle Hoffa waited in Miami last week at the threshold of his highest ambition-presidency of the giant, 1,400,000-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Yet few prospective bridegrooms-and indeed few union bosses-had ever been the target of so many brickbats, bombshells and booby traps calculated to keep him from the church on time. Items...