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Married. The Hon. Richard Frederick Wood, 26, son of the Earl of Halifax, Britain's wartime Ambassador to the U.S.; and Diana Kellett, 20; in London. During the British Eighth Army's North African campaign, the bridegroom lost both legs...
...added by an acidulous grandma, a neurasthenic maiden aunt and an old wartime friend of Frank's (Sterling Holloway). But the real meat of This Happy Breed is in the many plotless little human studies which Coward writes with such relish-Frank's advice to his bridegroom son, delivered in the privacy of the bathroom, just before the wedding; snappish, jagged family quarrels; a touching drunk scene between the two aging ex-soldiers; Ethel's silent, terrible way of absorbing bitter news. The real hero of the film is time, as designated on the face of every...
First, or Sixth? This week, rednecked from Cuban sun, the question-mark Brooklyn Dodgers rolled north by ship and Pullman. They looked neither bad nor good, only perplexed. One of their deepest perplexities was the conduct of their manager, Leo Durocher. A bridegroom for the third time, he was acting as if he had never been on a honeymoon before. Some days he hadn't even showed up for practice. Other days, chewing gum thoughtfully, he spent most of the time gazing up at his screen-actress bride, Laraine Day, sitting in a box and chewing...
...years from now, according to Leo's simple philosophy, the public would only remember who won and who lost. So that was all right. Said the triumphant bridegroom: "My God, I came west to play golf and I end up with a wife and three kids...
...huge mistake-"[a] seedy dullness ... a ... total failure and mess." He proceeded to complete the mess by marrying a gaunt Sunday-school teacher. "Lucy Barton," says tactful Biographer Terhune, "was doubtless attractive; but she lacked physical charm." "I am going to be married -don't congratulate me," the bridegroom told a friend. He turned up at church in "an old slouch hat," spoke only once at the wedding breakfast. Offered some blanc mange, he waved it away, muttering "Ugh! Congealed bridesmaid...