Word: brides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sheppard ("Abdullah") King, who risked his Texas cotton-fortune inheritance by marrying Egyptian Shimmy Dancer Samia Gamal, brought his bride home to Houston to meet Mama for the first time. All went well. Nervous Samia got a hearty hug from her mother-in-law, who said, "I think she's charming...
...captain was John C. Burn, hero of an earlier Pan American crash. When his plane went down in the Tagus River near Lisbon in 1943, he rescued Singer Jane Froman from drowning despite his own broken back. The two were married in 1948, the bride still on crutches. When reporters brought the news of last week's crash to her Manhattan apartment, she cried: "It can't happen to us again." Then she learned that her husband was hospitalized in San Juan with minor injuries, and flew to Puerto Rico for a bedside reunion...
...Meets Girl. What brings lovers in such droves to Bride & Groom is its promise to feather their nests. The newlyweds get a free, week-long honeymoon ("We pay for everything except liquor," says Nelson), the loan of a Pontiac, and a shower of presents ranging from vacuum cleaners and gas ranges to silverware and cigarette lighters. The ceremony itself is whipped through in something under four minutes. The rest of the 15-minute program is devoted to music by an organ, a harp and a sentimental baritone, a quick rehash of the boy-meets-girl details of the particular romance...
Because they are dealing with lovers, Bride & Groom's producers have run into some unexpected situations. One couple astonished the landlord of their honeymoon hotel by playing billiards until 3 a.m. on their wedding night. One groom offered to enliven the ceremony by performing sleight-of-hand tricks on the air. At least six couples have broken their engagements before they could be got in front of the TV cameras. One groom decamped the night before the show, leaving a desolate bride-to-be. The producers were hard put to find another marriageable couple on such short notice. Since...
Girl Gets Boy. The brides have ranged in age from 17 to 75, the grooms from 19 to 78. Divorced people are frowned on, since, as Nelson explains: "There are always plenty of people getting married for the first time." Nelson has had 17 policemen married on his show (he got one speeding ticket fixed as a result), and four children have been named after him. He constantly hears from Bride & Groom graduates who want him to patch up a quarrel, find them a job or lend them some money. He is heartened by a recent survey...