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"He's a fabulous young man, a very fine young man." Thus did Mrs. John Slocum, a Newport and Washington, D.C., socialite and a direct descendant of Rhode Island Founder Roger Williams, describe her future son-in-law, Adam Clayton Powell III, a direct descendant of the high-rolling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 2, 1969 | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

Verbal Combat Fatigue. The plot, insofar as there is one, is to get the fiance (Fred Willard), who wants to remain one in perpetuity, to marry the daughter and then do something or other with his life. As a photographer he has specialized in pictures of human excrement, which is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revivals: Satirical Sniper Fire | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

"We aren't sure when we will have the wedding," said Nancy, 22 and an English and political science graduate of the University of South Carolina. Said her 66-year-old fiance: "She's very smart. A straight-A student."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 13, 1968 | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

As the girl, Marcy Schuck is cool and brassy and very funny. Her melodramatic longings for her loved one (she keeps talking about how she misses her fiance's "hands on her breasts") seethe with phony sentimentality. And when she falls in love with her new acquaintance, she does it...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Indian and Sugar Plum | 12/7/1968 | See Source »

As the daughter of a German theologian, niece of another and sister of two more, Elizabeth Harre decided to break the mold slightly and take up social work. After her fiance was killed during World War II, she studied sociology and law, then worked at a women's prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prisons: Mother's Day | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

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