Word: fiances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...portrait of Napoleon's fianc...
...Ginjim in southern India to visit the girl's family. In Ginjim, the barometer is low and human passions are high. The family's younger daughter (Ursula Thiess), a child of nature who runs around in scanty outfits, takes the eye of her sister's fiancé. Before long they are cuddling in an abandoned temple, exchanging such lines as: "I will love you with my whole being and forever" and "Half a love is worse than none." To go with this deluge of dialogue, a monsoon sets in, to the accompaniment of native drums and chants...
Whistler's Grandmother (by Robert Finch) is almost as bad as its title. A young saloonkeeper, whose singer fiancée craves a wholesome family background, hires a lovable old rip to pretend to be his grandmother. She soon turns the backroom-and the boys in it-into a God-Bless-Our-Home Victorian parlor and makes every one so happy that, when the truth comes out, they all vote to go on living...
...week's embarrassment, the usually well-behaved Swedish police had one of their worst publicity breaks in years. Discharged from the police force for assault & battery, one Tore Hedin successively murdered his parents, his fiancée and the matron of an old folk's home. Then he set fire to the home, burning five of its inhabitants to death. Just before he drowned himself in a lake, Hedin wrote out a confession in which he admitted being guilty of another murder-one which he had been assigned to solve during his tour on the force...
Talent Scout. In Chicago, Lawrence I. Lowell, 35, sued his ex-fiancée, Mrs. Rose Cichon Potocki, 28, for $2,500, to cover expenses of his courtship and reimbursement for some of the time devoted to her "which could have been used seeking wife material...