Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marrying season of Scandinavian princesses rolled on last week with a rainy ceremony on Oland island, 145 miles south of Stockholm. As King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden led his eldest granddaughter, Princess Margaretha, 29, down the aisle of the 13th century church of Gardslosa, the pink-faced groom, British Trucking Executive John Ambler, 40, waited beside an altar trimmed with wild flowers and flanked with birch trees. Television lights gleamed on the bride's golden crown and her simple wedding dress and veil of Brussels lace. Standing before Lutheran Archbishop Gunnar Hultgren, Margaretha answered the traditional question with...
Died. Austen Herbert Groom-John son, 54, co-father of the singing commercial, a onetime NBC program idea man who teamed with Announcer Alan Kent in 1939 to write "Pepsi-Cola Hits the Spot," a jingle that jangled for 20 years until Pepsi decided to "be sociable"; of a heart attack; in New York...
...daughter, but she is extraordinarily able and talented in her own right. She has been particularly important to him since his stroke early this year, often functioning as his link with other officials and the world at large. At one time it was rumored that Nehru wanted to groom her as his successor, but that possibility, to all intents and purposes, is out. A more serious prospect is that she may become India's Foreign Minister; left-wingers want her in the job, hoping that she would follow the policies of her old but discredited friend Krishna Menon...
...Babs had never tried a Buddhist ceremony, and so this time around it was a sari affair at her $1,500,000 estate near Cuernavaca, Mexico. There were seven tiers to the wedding cake, not in honor of her seven husbands but in honor of the groom's rank in Laos, and when the violin-serenaded reception was over, she was Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow Grant Troubetzkoy Rubirosa Von Cramm Na Champassak...
Proper it was. "Dr. and Mrs. Eldridge Henry Wolff of Cambridge, Maryland, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Louise Eldridge Wolff, to Mr. Lincoln Gill Clark, son of Mrs. Vanderbilt Clark and Mr. Morton Gill Clark of New York." And proper it should have been, since the prospective groom's mother is undisputed Etiqueen Amy Vanderbilt, 55. The bride's parents followed her every instruction. The listing of the Clarks separately was a discreet indication they are divorced, and since Amy is "a newsworthy person," there was all sorts of genealogy tracing her son back...