Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...married Laurette Kilborn, a redheaded model from Flushing, L.I. After their wedding, in Alexandria, Va., Rubinstein gave a lavish reception at Washington's Shoreham Hotel, inviting 150 eminent friends. Nine ambassadors and a murmuration of Senators and Congressmen dutifully turned up to toast the bride and groom...
...Violent Men (Columbia) has more than its share of brutality: fires, murders, fist fights, stampedes. This time Eddie is a crippled, scheming cattle baron, the husband of beautiful, scheming Barbara Stanwyck. They have a sweet, innocent daughter (Dianne Foster) who would like to play bridle & groom with an upstanding horseman (Glenn Ford). But what will daddy say? Nothing much, since empire-mad Robinson is so dumb he doesn't even know that his wife has been inspecting the hay at close quarters with his brother (Brian Keith). Relatively unscratched at the end are Good Guy Ford and Starlet Foster...
Life & Death. Americans celebrate 1,566,793 marriages and agonize over 388,000 divorces in a year. The typical groom is 23.8, the bride 21.4 (they are oldest in Connecticut-23.6; youngest in Idaho-20.9). The nation's 46,828,000 families are smaller (3.4 persons) than in 1940 (3.77) or in 1890 (4.93). The U.S. has 814,000 more married women than married men (due to reporting discrepancies and absences of husbands on overseas assignments), but Mormon Utah is one state with more (633) husbands than wives. The U.S. has 1,776,681 more women than...
...liked the idea of being commander in chief of His Majesty's armies in America but didn't care much for the responsibilities that went with the job. In the Seven Years' War he had done gallantly and risen to colonel. After that he was groom of the bedchamber to the Duke of Gloucester, was elected to Parliament, went to the Balkans to observe Catherine the Great's Russian armies fighting the Turks (later Clinton wanted to see Russians instead of Hessians sent to the colonies). By the time King George and his ministers decided...
...Tibet by a Red general three weeks ago as thousands of his subjects wept and prostrated themselves. His presence was quite a coup: the Dalai Lama is a living God to his own people. Several years ago. uncertain of the Dalai Lama's loyalty, the Communists began to groom the exiled Panchen Lama as a rival. He is the spiritual leader of Lamaism, as the Dalai is the temporal head. Last week both the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama (who is a 16-year-old Chinese ) were delegates in Peking. Dutifully, the Dalai Lama proclaimed that "the Tibetan...