Word: bridegrooms
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...beach wassail where revelers cry "Oahu!"). There was no poi or okolehau, but there were oodles of orchids and leis, flown in from the Islands, and, ignoring Tahoe's sparkling waters, lackeys gassed up a swimming pool by spiking it with champagne. Mrs. Gillilan's newly rich bridegroom, Ray, 60, wouldn't say what the party cost (estimate: $30,000). But the gala seemed just what Bobo needed to relax after her six weeks of idle seclusion in Reno...
...clapped into a Milan prison by the Germans in the spring of 1944. He lets his junior fellow officers know that Italy expects them to face the firing squad with courage: "An officer is at all times merely on temporary duty; he is, as the Spaniards say . . . a bridegroom of death." Inspired by Delia Rovere, the prisoners face death bravely to hear his clipped "Jolly good show, sir." Only after death comes to Della Rovere is he unmasked as a thieving small-time card sharp, who cheated on everything but his country's honor...
...maxixe, the year that Woodrow Wilson won his second term as President by the margin of 3,806 California votes. It was a time of gathering tension, and because of trouble on the Mexican border, the Eisenhower-Doud wedding was held four months earlier than had been planned. The bridegroom, just promoted to first lieutenant, didn't have time to get new silver bars for his uniform on his wedding...
...that he had been "A grump for years" and long resisted his wife's urging to make one of the retreats with her. But "when I finally agreed, it was amazing! I felt better almost immediately-long before we actually came up here." Said a rangy, baby-faced bridegroom to his bride: "Honey, I think we'll be going on quite a few of these...
Like many a bridegroom, honeymooning Joe DiMaggio, no mean idol himself when he batted for the New York Yankees, went virtually unnoticed last week as Japanese by the thousands swarmed to meet his bride, the former Miss Marilyn Monroe of Hollywood, Calif. At Tokyo's International Airport, Marilyn's fans pressed so thickly about the arriving couple that both were forced to scramble back into the airplane that had brought them, escaping later through its baggage hatch...