Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the wedding a select but friendly 250 gathered at the Truman home for a reception. After 30 minutes in the receiving line, bride and groom slipped away to catch a train for the first leg of their honeymoon in Nassau. Margaret Truman had not been the only important bride of the week, but when it was all said and done, hers was the wedding that gave the U.S. that next-door feeling even if the nation stood on tiptoe to catch every detail of the other...
...liner Constitution hove to off the port of Monaco one morning last week and set Hollywood's Grace Kelly aboard Deo Juvante II, the virginal white 138-ft. yacht of Grace's groom-to-be, Prince Rainier III. All Monaco broke loose. Rockets zoomed, sirens screamed, dockside trolleys klaxoned, cannon fired 21-gun salutes. Ashore, the crowd-Mone-gasques, outlanders and the cream of world jewel thievery-dutifully roared. Overhead, a seaplane belonging to Sea Lord Aristotle Socrates Onassis, controlling croupier of Monte Carlo's famed Casino, bombarded Grace and His Serene Highness with...
...Jersey town of Franklin, sometime Actress Magda (This Thing Called Love) Gabor, fortyish, eldest of the three best-known U.S. glamour imports from Hungary, took a groom, Queens Contractor Arthur ("Tony") Gallucci, 45. Three years ago Mama Jolie Gabor, ageless, had expressed concern about marrying off twice-wed Eva and thrice-wed Magda: "It is difficult to find husbands for them. They are not little Cinderellas. Always they have had the best minks and best diamonds." Week's end brought another groom to the Gabor hearthside. In Manhattan Eva (younger than her mother) married handsome Beverly Hills Surgeon John...
...streets, and the picture tells how his worth overcame his birth. Put to the pits by a greedy master (Jeff Richards), Wildfire fights his way to the championship of the Bowery before he is overmatched with a bigger dog, and left on the floor half dead. A kindly groom (Edmund Gwenn) takes him home to a rich man's stables, and thereafter, in due process of fate, the wharf rat whips his haughty old man at the big dog show, redeems his poor old mother from poverty and disgrace, and finds romance with the richest female in town...
...last week's rush to the altar. Marriages are now arranged with greater ease, thanks to the MacArthur constitution, which supposedly equalized the sexes. The ancient gentlemen whose business it has long been to arrange marriages between families without the knowledge or consent of either bride or groom are still as busy as ever. But in modern Japan, young people find more opportunity to meet under less formal circumstances and even to fall in love...