Word: brides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being kind to horses, sad-faced Willie will earn about $75,000 this year. Some 70% of those earnings (after taxes) go into a trust fund, to be held there until Willie comes of age. Meanwhile, he is sending his 18-year-old brother to college, supporting his bride of four months in a Los Angeles motel, playing a few rounds of golf (low gos) in the mornings, and driving a new Buick. Records were all right, Willie figured, but nothing to lose sleep over...
...Miss Jennie Jones and Bob Henry were married at the Jones mansion last night. The bride is the daughter of Constable Jones, who has made a good officer and will undoubtedly be re-elected ... He offers a fine horse for sale in another column of this issue...
Edna Rose Ritchings, "celestial" white wife of Negro Cultist Father Divine, told Ebony magazine that many people "wonder if we are happy together living lives of purity and chastity . . ." Wrote Mother Divine: "I am as virtuous today as the day Father took me unto himself as his spotless bride ... To be daily in the presence... is the most glorious privilege any human being could have ... I am a sample and example for all to copy if they desire to be supernaturally and eternally blessed . . . Father Divine ... is greater than any atomic or hydrogen bomb...
...celebrate his daughter's wedding more than four years ago, Bernard Glagovsky invited 320 guests to drink champagne and dance in the main ballroom of Boston's Bradford Hotel. Many of the guests had never met the bride & groom before, and were invited only because they were customers of Glagovsky's Haverhill Shoe Novelty Co. (bows, buckles and ornaments). After Glagovsky paid the $9,200 wedding bill, he decided that $6,245 of it was a tax deductible item as an "ordinary and necessary advertising expense of the corporation...
Last week the U.S. tax court took a more old-fashioned view of weddings. It ruled that "the corporation [illegally] acted as the 'father of the bride' [when Glagovsky] decided to use his daughter's wedding as a means of entertaining some of his corporation's customers." Said Glagovsky sadly: "If I knew it was going to come out this way I never would have done...