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...bride was composed, the groom was nervous and muffed his lines. In St. John's Methodist Church in St. Louis before a gathering in which newsmen outnumbered relatives two to one, Vice President Alben Barkley married Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley. She is 38; he will be 72 this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: That's the American People | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Married. Vice President Alben William ("Veep") Barkley, 71, and Mrs. Carleton Sturtevant Hadley, 38; both for the second time; in St. Louis (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Vice President Alben W. Berkley and Fiancee Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley bore up remarkably well under the strain of a full pre-wedding week. Recovering from flu in a St. Louis, hospital, Mrs. Hadley made every minute count by approving the final details of her trousseau (a blue wedding dress and eight other new outfits). Barkley was a passenger aboard an Air Force B-17 that narrowly missed a collision with a blimp near Washington's National Airport. Meanwhile, word reached the Vice President that St. Louis streetcar motormen, passing the home of his bride-to-be, were calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Slings & Arrows | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Alben Barkley, 71, has been a widower since 1947, when his wife died after 44 years of marriage and several years of illness. Mrs. Hadley, a trim brunette who looks younger than her 38 years, toured Europe as a child with her mother, a professional pianist. Her lawyer husband, Carleton Hadley, left her a widow at 33 with two daughters. She worked for Willkie in 1940 (once she left a note for her Roosevelt-supporting milkman: "No Willkie, no milkie") but she insists that she is really "a Democrat from way back." Her grandfather was a Democratic Congressman from Missouri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: The Veep Yields | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

That brought the house down. With a sly dig at Vice President Barkley's attentions to Mrs. Carleton Hadley of St. Louis, he added: "I am exceedingly glad that he is about to become a citizen of Missouri." The following day-after a side trip to Independence-Harry Truman flew back to the White House, glowing with good spirits and leaving Missouri in a pleasant twitter of excitement over the Veep's romantic intentions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Holiday at Home | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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