Word: brides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles, Seattle and Des Moines, and, for seven lively weeks, to Europe. At every stopping place he has increased his reputation as a character, whether by calling Richard Nixon an s.o.b. or by calling a general a squirrel-head (TIME, June 4). He acted as Father of the Bride with gracious dignity, and the entire nation shared his pride and his sadness. He wrote his memoirs and delighted in being called a liar by Douglas MacArthur and Jimmy Byrnes and Henry Wallace and Bernard Baruch and Pat Hurley and Francis Biddle. He also stayed up to his eyeglasses in politics...
...Munich, where a G.I. clubbed a young bricklayer to death in front of his 18-year-old bride, 50 riot-squad cars prowled the streets, and residential areas were placed off limits to G.I.s...
...December Bride...
...weeks from now she herself is getting married to Jack Cassidy, who will be playing opposite her in the Cambridge Drama Festival production that opens next Wednesday. Since the wedding will take place right in the middle of the show's run--a press agent's dream but a bride-to-be's headache--Shirley is currently rehearsing ten hours a day at Sanders and spending her evenings buying a trousseau...
...trade, Bates writes with an English sense of place and social pattern; his prose often carries the gleam of England's pale sunlight. The title story is a neatly cut account of murder, told obliquely and in retrospect. A farmer kills the man he suspects of seducing his bride. Returning home after serving his sentence, the farmer finds his daughter now almost the same age his wife had been when he killed her lover. Slowly, and by indirection, the reader becomes aware that the daughter, too, could be seduced, and the pattern repeated...