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Then started a decade of frustration for the taciturn driver. He was 4 min. 2.4 sec. behind the winner in 1952, and 17.35 sec. behind in 1957. Last year he trailed the winner, Rodger Ward, by 23 sec. Around Indianapolis they began calling Jim Rathmann the "Bridesmaid of the Brickyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ex-Bridesmaid | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

...Mayfair's classiest interior decorators. During the ceremony, a blizzard raged outside old Romsey Abbey in Hampshire. Because of her pregnancy, Queen Elizabeth II was not there, but her most charming proxy was doubtless little Princess Anne, 9, buffered from the very cold weather with a flannelette-lined bridesmaid's gown. At the reception, Anne, feeling quite grown up, sipped ginger ale from a bubbly glass while solemnly watching her elders downing the real thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 25, 1960 | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

...Stewardess Diana Davis, 27. In pronouncing the lines of the Church of England ceremony, he solemnly besought God that "this woman may be lovely" instead of "loving." He hastily corrected himself, at ceremony's end further atoned by stalling the bridal procession with official busses for every single bridesmaid. Protested loving, lovely Diana: "Come along! Stop all that! Leave my bridesmaids alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 3, 1959 | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...Show. In Taoyuan, Formosa, when Yang Shih-ming's bride failed to appear for her wedding, Yang turned to Bridesmaid Chiang Ming-yeh. asked her if she would like to be his wife, married her instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...Lanky Dow Finsterwald of Tequesta, Fla., golf's perennial bridesmaid (17 runner-up finishes in 31 months), posted a brilliant four-under-par 31 on the outgoing nine the final day, caught famed, faltering Sam Snead and coasted home a two-stroke winner with a 72-hole total of 276, four under par, to take the $5,500 first prize in the 40th Professional Golfers' Association championship at Havertown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jul. 28, 1958 | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

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