Word: bridegroom
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...graduate student at the University of Miami confessed that he was "just a little relieved to see the bridegroom is so white. I guess it would have been different if he had been a real black buck." Certainly elements of old-style racism tinged the reaction, especially in the South. Many standpatters have argued that the Kennedy and Johnson administrations have wanted nothing so much as the "mongrelization of the races." To them, the Rusks are knowing agents of this conspiracy. Yet the response was muted almost everywhere. Although sex is the most emotional racial bugaboo, an Atlanta advertising...
...Affair of State." Most newspapers, North and South, played the story heavily but straight. Front-page pictures and reports were the rule, and most headlines reported the bridegroom's race. But editorials on the subject were scarce, although the Richmond News Leader called mixed marriages "eccentric" and said that "anything that diminishes his [Rusk's] personal acceptability is an affair of state." New York Post Columnist Harriet Van Home was sympathetic, commenting that "the intimate joys and sorrows of public figures must inevitably become the common gossip of the marketplace...
...brother Parks, an Atlanta-Miami public relations man, Brother Roger and their sister Mary preferred to not talk about it. Said Parks's secretary: "He's very upset about it. None of the Rusk family attended, you know." Neither did any Smiths, except for the bridegroom's parents. Mrs. Rusk's clan turned up in force...
...story of the young couple, garbed in white head coverings, slippers and robes, going through their marriage ceremony in a place called the Sealing Room, where they are joined for "time and eternity" and where, by religious law, the bride's parents were forbidden to enter. The bridegroom was George Scott Romney, son of a prospective candidate for President...
...bridegroom's voice e'er heard shall...