Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Appearances had no place in 64-year-old Security Planner Sir William Henry Beveridge's blueprint for "the ideal wife." Said the groom of three months: "She should be intelligent without being intellectual, keen without being earnest, silent without being stupid...
...movie, had a blinding première on Broadway; Carol Marcus, striking 18-year-old actress (in two Saroyan shows), daughter of Bendix Aviation Vice President Charles Marcus, girl friend of Gloria Vanderbilt de Cicco, became Mrs. William Saroyan. They were married in Dayton, where the 34-year-old groom writes training films for the Signal Corps. The ceremony was quiet: so was the unpredictable playwright, who shattered yet another Saroyan precedent, refused to utter a word for publication...
...bride wore an inviting package of white satin and tulle, carried white orchids and carnations. Maid of honor was Dancer Mitzi Mayfair. The church crawled with reporters and photographers, who bustled down the aisle after the happy couple, went to work from prominent positions along the altar rails. The groom mumbled his lines, but the bride was in good voice. Afterwards on the church steps flash bulbs started popping again, and photogenic Mrs. Wallace helped out. She nudged her husband, whispered, "Remember to look the same way as I do." Gowns by Norman Hartnell, dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth...
Married. Josephine Ford, 19, daughter of Edsel, only granddaughter of Henry; and Walter Buhl Ford II, 22, Detroit blue blood, no kin; in Grosse Pointe, Mich. The groom, a graduate of Yale last fall, is a member of the Naval Reserve...
...have a pet theory too, and you can take it or leave it. The trouble with war drama, to put it somewhat vaguely, is this: there is nothing unique about tragedy in 1942 America. The problems of families being torn apart; of bride and groom, fresh from the preacher, being forcibly separated; of living for country or for self; are (to coin a phrase) too much with us. It isn't that the playwrights don't realize what this war means. It is simply that its meaning has become so obvious as to be both platitudinous and commonplace. The stuff...