Word: brides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Names make news. Last week these names made this news: Her parents announced that Sara Delano Roosevelt, 21, socialite millionheiress and granddaughter of F.D.R., will become the June bride of a Manhattan barber's son. A Bryn Mawr junior, the bride-to-be is the daughter of Jimmie Roosevelt and the former Betsey Gushing, who divorced Roosevelt in 1940 and is now the wife of Financier John Hay ("Jock&") Whitney. The engagement announcement broke the news that Whitney, with the consent of Jimmie Roosevelt, had legally adopted Sara in 1949 to put her in line for the family fortune...
Ruffles & Flourishes. In East Molesey, England, Butcher Shop Executive Stan Richards and his bride, after a formal wedding, left the church under an arch of soupbones held aloft by 14 meatcutters...
...again after four months, tests with a tiny dose of radioactive iodine and a Geiger counter showed that the oddly placed thyroid was functioning. Irma Miller has needed no more thyroid extract or calcium injections. She is going to be married, and Dr. Sterling is going to give the bride away...
...Manhattan last week, honeymooning with his 40-year-old Greek bride, 71-year-old Sir Alexander vigorously defended his antibiotic. "[The trouble] is not that it makes the microbes resistant," he said, "but rather that some people become sensitive to it. The penicillin still works on the germs, but the patient sometimes becomes too uncomfortable to permit its use ... In those cases, the cure may be worse than the ailment...
Morrison, father of the bride and manager of the nightclub that did the catering. Heady with surprise and indignation, Miss Davies told her side of the story: Morrison had asked the use of her home for the party, had promised to pick up all tabs. Now that his investment seemed a bad one, he was trying to get his money back, and she was not going to help. Said she: "I will gladly send a check for the amount of Mr. Morrison's claim to any deserving charity . . . but I refuse to recognize Mr. Morrison himself...