Word: brides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rockefeller III, 26, Princeton graduate, by occupation "associated with father''; and Blanchette Ferry Hooker, 23. Vassar graduate, youngest daughter of Elon Huntington Hooker, financier, engineer, electrochemist; in Manhattan. In the Rockefeller-built Riverside Baptist Church, the world's No. 1 nonroyal heir, tall and saturnine, took a Rockefeller-worthy bride, tall, handsome, healthy. Aloft, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller (grandmother) carillon pealed its world's biggest 72 bells. Outside was a mob with news sense, pleased because the bride smiled at large as she walked into the church. Inside were 2,500 Rockefeller & Hooker friends, socialites, bankers, no grandfather, for John...
Married. Harriet Stanton De Forest, daughter of Inventor Lee De Forest by first of three marriages; and Marshall C. Allaben Jr., Greenwich real estate man; in Greenwich. Conn. The wedding date was the birthday anniversary of the bride's maternal great-grandmother. Suffraget Elizabeth Cady Stanton...
...Engastromenos Schliemann, 80, archaeologist, relict of the late great Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann who uncovered an ancient town which he claimed to be Troy; in Athens. After 15 years of woe with his first wife, whom he divorced, Schliemann asked the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Athens to pick a Greek bride for him, "of the true Greek type, black-haired and, if possible, beautiful." The Archbishop picked Sophie, 16, who lived happily with Schliemann for 21 years until his death...
...Coburg last week to marry Princess Sibylle, 24, is only 26. All the same life will not soon again be so gay and exciting as it was last week for good, grey Rev. Wolfgang Schanze, pastor of Coburg's high-spired Moritzkirche, one-time tutor to the bride, whose privilege it was to unite in holy matrimony two great-grandchildren of British Queen Victoria...
While the organ groaned softly Rev. Wolfgang Schanze braced himself for the 21-gun salute which he knew would blaze away as soon as the bride and groom exchanged rings in the Coburg fashion. "Dearly beloved," cried Pastor Schanze, "the formation of a marriage which can stand before God and man is no light thing. . . . For you, dear bride, it means hoisting your sails-toward a new life...