Word: brides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Life & Death. Americans celebrate 1,566,793 marriages and agonize over 388,000 divorces in a year. The typical groom is 23.8, the bride 21.4 (they are oldest in Connecticut-23.6; youngest in Idaho-20.9). The nation's 46,828,000 families are smaller (3.4 persons) than in 1940 (3.77) or in 1890 (4.93). The U.S. has 814,000 more married women than married men (due to reporting discrepancies and absences of husbands on overseas assignments), but Mormon Utah is one state with more (633) husbands than wives. The U.S. has 1,776,681 more women than...
...week, and by Indians who have studied in American universities, many young Indians are rebelling against the established marriage customs, by which parents make the matches in childhood. An intelligent 20-year old in Calcutta had to meet his girl secretly because his mother had already chosen his bride, a girl of 14 who lived in Bombay...
...couple, just married this afternoon, sent me a note and asked me to play this song for them. But they asked me to play it early in the evening because they didn't think they'd be able to stay for the whole program. Now, I want the young bride to imagine that her husband is singing this to her, instead of me. It'll be sexier that...
...Love Lucy, the No. 1 show of the last three years, returned to the air. The episode was not topflight Lucille Ball but proved good enough to score 46.8 against 15.8 for NBC's Medic. The big surprise of the evening was CBS's December Bride, a run-of-the-mill situation comedy starring Spring Byington. On its first appearance, Bride won a big 31.4 rating, nearly double that of NBC's competing Robert Montgomery Presents...
Bandleader Artie Shaw, 44, whose seven marriages (among his ex-wives: Novelist Kathleen Winsor, Cinemactresses Lana Turner and Ava Gardner) all started out well, seemed to be right back where he began. His current bride (No. 7). Actress Doris Dowling, gathered up their 13-month-old son Jonathan and moved in with her sister...