Word: brides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breeder of blue-blooded show terriers; and retired Navy Captain Marion Eppley, 69, wartime staff officer with Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz and president of the Eppley Laboratory (precision measuring instruments) in Newport, R.I.; both for the second time (his first: the late Ethelberta Russell Eppley, sister of the bride); in Manhattan...
...will be heiress presumptive (in the place of her uncle Prince Knud, 52-year-old brother of King Frederik), with the possibility of becoming the first Danish queen since Margrethe I (1353-1412), a precocious sovereign who made bright Danish history. Margrethe I became the 10-year-old child bride of King Haakon VI of Norway, assumed the crown of Norway when he died, and, by invitation from the unhappy Swedes, took their crown and merged the three countries into a single Scandinavian kingdom...
Married. Pamela Gordon, 34, painter daughter of the late Gertrude Lawrence; and Robert Clatworthy, 24, British sculptor; she for the second time, he for the first; in a civil ceremony (the bride wore her mother's "favorite dress"); in London...
...better is the dry humor of Stephen Crane's cowpoke story, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. A hard-drinking, fast-shooting old reprobate named Scratchy (Minor Watson), the last bad man left in the little western town of Yellow Sky, is sadly disillusioned when his longtime antagonist, the town marshal (Robert Preston), brings home a bride. Confronted with an unfamiliar atmosphere of respectability, Scratchy resignedly throws away his six-shooter and says farewell once & for all to his glorious gun-toting past. In James Agee's lean adaptation and in some peppery performances, The Bride Comes...
...first offering of Huntington Hartford, 40-year-old art patron and heir to A & P millions, who decided to turn producer, with plans to deliver two pictures a year during the next three years for RKO release. It also introduces to the screen (as the beguiling bride of Crane's sheriff) Marjorie Steele, a onetime cigarette girl in a Hollywood nightspot, who is Hartford's wife in real life...