Word: brides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George Harris found his favorite meal at home in Chicago. "My bride Sheila," he says, "could not cook at first, but she could read, and we started with six cookbooks. After several weeks of rather strange food I came home one evening to a chicken soufflé as savory as a politician's dream." Harris learned later that the recipe his wife had followed called for a soufflé made from icebox leftovers. Having no leftovers in her kitchen, she had spent the entire day cooking up bits of leftovers to satisfy the recipe...
After brooding for nearly a month over an imaginative newspaper account of his daughter Karen's wedding, Author Philip (Tomorrow!) Wylie suddenly decided that the story was all wet in portraying him as a "nervous" father of the bride. To the society editor of the Miami Herald Wylie batted out an explanatory note: "To be sure I was under a slight emotional strain as I came down the aisle with my daughter, owing to the fact that after a couple of false starts she went on with her customary apparent composure-but out of step ... I found myself reflecting...
Ricochet Romance. In Hutchinson, Kans., Bill Dennis and Pat Gough finally said "I do" after a wedding day in which 1) Dennis forgot to pick up the license, 2) Pastor Lonnie Smith became ill, 3) the bride's brother failed to arrive, 4) the air conditioning blew out the church candles, 5) Dennis, waiting at the altar, discovered he had misplaced the ring...
...Love (Sat. 10:30 p.m., CBS) borrows in all directions: from countless quiz shows, from Bride & Groom, from This Is Your Life. Frenetic Bert Parks tries to make all these elements stick together by bringing onstage a devoted couple and then surrounding them with assorted friends and relatives who give the lowdown on the romance and answer quiz questions to help pile up loot for the lovebirds...
...first scene of Demetrius is the last scene of The Robe: the condemned centurion's bride sends the robe to her Christian friends. In trying to hide it, the freed slave Demetrius (Victor Mature) scuffles with a Roman soldier and is sentenced to be trained for the arena in a gladiatorial school...