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...became a naturalized Dutch subject and swore allegiance to his future mother-in-law Queen Wilhelmina (TIME, Jan. 4). This made no difference to Nazi Party fanatics who insist, "Once a German always a German!" Last week rampant Nazis were whooping against the ex-German and ex-Nazi bridegroom in almost every German newspaper...
...last moment, Prince Friedrich zu Wied, an ardent German Nazi who was to have acted as one of the bridegroom's witnesses, failed to come to The Hague, giving the excuse of "illness" which was known to be a fib. This so incensed Queen Wilhelmina that Her Majesty named to act as a witness in his place Professor Jan Huizinga, a Dutch writer of tart anti-Nazi tracts, under whom the Crown Princess once studied history. German correspondents who had come to cover the wedding promptly left The Hague in a huff, all except...
...understand that in your country there are certain marriages where the bridegroom has to be-shall we say, cajoled. You didn't by any chance bring a shotgun with...
...Bassett, Iowa, Farmer Jacob Zimmer, 63, and his son Donald, 23, married Sisters Grace & Dorothy Tripp. Crowed Bridegroom Jacob: "Donald's always liked farmin' like me and he likes music, too-plays the cornet and the tuba both...
...when the northbound flyer whistles for Tuttle, N. C. (pop. 5,000), a dead town that contains a chair factory, a textile mill, an undue proportion of neurotic inhabitants. The whistle makes a baby cry, gives a little girl a nightmare, disturbs a dying man, awakens a bridegroom, arouses a bride. Thereafter for 395 pages, as exhaustively as a census taker, Author Armfield moves from household to household, picturing each in a few sentences, starting up a hundred promising stories that he does not follow. Nothing holds the characters together except that they all live in Tuttle, so that whenever...