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Princess Elizabeth, according to plans announced at Buckingham Palace last week, will not leave home for Westminster Abbey until 11:16 on the morning of her wedding day. Bridegroom Philip Mountbatten is scheduled to be in the Abbey at 11:15. The New York Sunday News explained this in a headline which Britons will doubtless regard as the century's worst piece of American bad taste. The headline: NO LAST-HOUR SNEAK FOR PHIL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Logistics | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

Railroader Robert R. Young was as happy as a bridegroom as he appeared before ICC in Washington last week. He wanted permission for himself and Robert J. Bowman, president of the Chesapeake & Ohio, to sit on the New York Central's board of directors. Thus he could vote his 400,000 shares (6%) of Central stock and exercise working control of the road. As Young had been invited in by Central, he looked for no opposition from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marry the Girl? | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...when he was barely 17, Milt swung himself off the steam cars at Cincinnati and hobbled off to see his family again and his best girl. Lucinda took one look at his peg leg and wept. But they were married anyhow, and after the ceremony the bridegroom got drunk, punched his best man in the teeth, and sang bawdy songs for the guests. "Oh, the vulgar, degrading army," moaned his mother next morning. Milt, his head aching almost as badly as his stump, figured he had better light out for the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bridegroom Got Drunk | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

Married. Henry Luce III, 22, son of the editor of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE; and Patricia Livingston Potter, 20, daughter of John S. Potter, a Bank of China director, who flew from Shanghai for the ceremony; at the home of Mrs. Lila Tyng, the bridegroom's mother, in Gladstone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 7, 1947 | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...kind to an escaped convict on the marshes. The convict is given his freedom in Australia, and he never forgets Pip. The other plot concerns a woman, who since her bridegroom failed at her wedding years before, has never seen the light of day. She lives in her bridal dress in a room that still contains the banquet table complete with wedding cake. Pip is summoned to talk to her once a week, and there he meets a beautiful girl, Estella, who is being trained by the old lady to revenge her on men. But Pip loves her right through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 7/1/1947 | See Source »

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