Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Millstones. But from the beginning she found herself overshadowed by competitors. "Uncle Ted" attended her wedding, and the bride & groom found themselves standing alone at the reception while the guests crowded up to hear the President tell stories. After the honeymoon her mother-in-law, Sara Delano Roosevelt, treated her like a child. The old lady controlled the family purse strings; she hired the bride's servants, and ruled the bride's house and husband: Franklin always deferred to his mother. A longtime acquaintance remembers Sara Roosevelt saying before company, in thoughtless brutality: "Eleanor...
...Producer John Nelson, 36, has received more than 70,000 letters from lovers young & old. They write him about their romances in the hope that Nelson and his partners, John Reddy and John Masterson, will select them to be married on Bride & Groom (weekdays, 10:30 a.m., CBS-TV) before an estimated TV audience of more than 2,000,000 enraptured housewives...
...Meets Girl. What brings lovers in such droves to Bride & Groom is its promise to feather their nests. The newlyweds get a free, week-long honeymoon ("We pay for everything except liquor," says Nelson), the loan of a Pontiac, and a shower of presents ranging from vacuum cleaners and gas ranges to silverware and cigarette lighters. The ceremony itself is whipped through in something under four minutes. The rest of the 15-minute program is devoted to music by an organ, a harp and a sentimental baritone, a quick rehash of the boy-meets-girl details of the particular romance...
...radio men at the U.S. Civilian Information & Education office were horrified, adamantly "recommended" that the show go on. Eriko, they felt, had a mildly democratizing influence on listeners. Says Nagayama: "It was most sorrowful. We couldn't fight back; it was practically an order." Dutifully, Uchimura wrote the groom out of the script, replaced him with a dawdling suitor who would obviously be around for years to come...
Preachers from other churches are often invited by the bride or groom to conduct the ceremony. Barring a special State license, only ministers living in Massachusetts can officiate in weddings in the State...