Word: grooming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often drowns out the play, but Director Tyrone Guthrie, a veteran of the Old Vic, never allows that to happen. The story of All's Well, lifted from Boccaccio, is about Helena, a poor physician's daughter married by royal command to a snobbish young count. The groom runs off to the wars before the wedding day has even reached the cocktail hour. The rest of the play tells how Helena plots her way into her husband's bedchamber and eventually his heart...
...Funerals. In merriment-minded Tehuantepec, any pretext for a party goes; the commonest is a wedding. By custom, after the newlyweds retire, celebrators gather outside the bridal chamber, drinking and shouting broad sallies at the groom. Later, when he comes out to greet the crowd, firecrackers explode and an all-night fiesta starts. Scarcely less gay are wakes and funerals (where a favored dirge is the tune of Yes, We Have No Bananas). There are 21 scheduled community fiestas a year in the town...
...divorced Roosevelt in 1940 and is now the wife of Financier John Hay ("Jock&") Whitney. The engagement announcement broke the news that Whitney, with the consent of Jimmie Roosevelt, had legally adopted Sara in 1949 to put her in line for the family fortune (reportedly around $50 million). The groom-to-be is Concert Pianist Anthony di Bonaventura, 23, whom Sara met in Philadelphia two years ago while he was a music student at Curtis Institute."Her millions don't impress me," he told reporters. Papa and Mama di Bonaventura, who had already entertained the Whitneys at a lasagna...
Young Love. In Ahmadabad, India, police stopped a marriage contract ceremony in a nearby village, told the parents of the one-year-old groom and the nine-month-old bride not to be in such a hurry...
...weathermen, studying reports from as far away as Japan, postpone a test whenever they foresee conditions that might keep the dust from dissipating properly. Only once have they had misgivings. Early in 1952, they warned eleven people at the Groom mine, 20 miles from the firing area, to get out-quick. The dust settled down on schedule, but there was not enough of it to hurt anybody...