Word: bridesmaids
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There's nothing like a wedding in the family. In Britain last week it seemed as if everyone was as busy as a bridesmaid, preparing to marry off the Princess this month. Each one had his own job. Dr. William McKie, the organist at Westminster Abbey, had a special motet to compose for the ceremony. Sir Arnold Bax, Master of the King's Musick, was working out three trumpet fanfares. Painters were sprucing up Buckingham Palace, which still showed the ravages of war. Electricians were studying ways & means to bathe The Mall with light on the great night...
...Always a bridesmaid, never a bride," Coach Mikkola's current Varsity harrier squad will try to win one this afternoon when it races Dartmouth over the 4 1/4 mile Franklin Park Course. The Varsity meet, starting at 3:45 o'clock, will be preceded by a 3 1/4 mile Freshman jaunt...
...lacked physical charm." "I am going to be married -don't congratulate me," the bridegroom told a friend. He turned up at church in "an old slouch hat," spoke only once at the wedding breakfast. Offered some blanc mange, he waved it away, muttering "Ugh! Congealed bridesmaid...
...Viceroy of India; and the Hon. Jean Frances Gibbs, 26, Princess Elizabeth's lady-in-waiting, widow of a captain killed at Nijmegen in 1944; he for the first time, she for the second; in London. The royal family attended the wedding en masse, Princess Elizabeth as a bridesmaid...
Married. Gloria Chavez, 20, younger daughter of New Mexico's Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez, and a George Washington University undergraduate (fellow student Margaret Truman was a bridesmaid); and Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Jorge Enrique Tristani, 26, U.S.-trained radar expert from Puerto Rico; in Washington...