Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bishop William Thomas Manning, Dr. Ray co-officiated at his own daughter's wartime wedding. But there was nothing hasty about it. Pretty, popular Kathryna Hoffman Ray, 19, whose mother was a Manhattan socialite, was a childhood friend of her 27-year-old Army Air Forces lieutenant groom, Courtlandt Nicoll, Manhattan socialite whose family attends the Little Church. Among the bride's wedding presents was her father's latest book, dedicated to her: Marriage Is a Serious Business (Whittlesey House; $2). It is full of the rector's warmly human advice to marrying couples...
...floors of the great house lit with candles that they could not afford, and the huge chandelier in the center hall twinkling with a starry brilliance as it was lighted in her honor, she trembled at their pride in her. When she found the Negroes welcoming the bride and groom with incomprehensible outcries of good nature, and her husabcand's kinfolk, wistful and old, treasuring her as if she were some lovely, fragile, enameled doll, she moved into a world of enchantment. When she dreamed with Niles in the warm, sweet air, savoring the dense, multitudinous murmur of night...
...from his desk. Last year, when A.P. bought California's Pacific Finance Co., he made its go-getting, 50-year-old president Francis Baer vice chairman of the bank's board, and West Coast financiers buzzed that A. P. bought the company to get the man and groom him for president...
Rationale. In Elberton, Ga., Judge C. B. Thornton asked a groom what bride's name he should write on the marriage license. Said the groom: "Leave that blank. . . . I heard that licenses were going to be rationed. . . . I'm courting two women and I don't know which...
Married. Dorothy Thompson, 48, columnist; and Maxim Kopf, 51, refugee Czech artist; each for the third time; in Barnard, Vt. She divorced Sinclair Lewis last year, Austrian writer Josef Bard in 1927. After the bridal supper, the groom put on tights, did a one-man wrestling...