Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instance, undertook to photograph "all the dear servants at Petworth, 1860, when I came there." They include the butler, the underbutler, the park keeper, the keeper of the stallions, the coachman, the housekeeper. Lord Leconfield's valet, Lady Leconfield's maid, the French cook, the first groom of the chambers, and so on. Big houses often had as many as 50 people working downstairs. Yet strange as it may appear to the modern eye, the servants have the same look of calm self-assurance as the masters: if the castes exchanged clothes, it would be impossible to tell...
...since 1954. Most Coca-Cola watchers assumed that it would be a while before he would be declared the successor of Austin. At 65, Austin had been Coke's chief for 14 years and had already had his retirement postponed for a year, evidently to allow time to groom a successor. But last week Austin sprang a surprise: much earlier than expected, he announced that when his retirement came at the end of February, his job would go to Goizueta, who will be the first Coca-Cola chief to rise to the top from the technical side...
What follows is part fertility myth, part comedy of manners. The bride and groom are hardly thrilled at the prospect of this marriage made in heaven. They approach the pavilion magically erected for their nuptials with mutual dislike. She thinks he is a barbarian, he finds her too snobbish and ethereal. He has never faced women except as the conquering general, accepting the spoils of victory: "On their campaigns, when the army reached new territory, into his tent would be thrust some girl, or she was thrown at his feet...
...Roof, Jaws and Star Wars). The new leader will meet his musicians at a Boston rehearsal next week, then conduct his first concert at Carnegie Hall. The parent Boston Symphony Orchestra, which depended on Fiedler's prodigious performances to keep it in the black, hopes the groom in what General Manager Thomas Morris calls "a nice marriage" will provide the same sort of dowry...
...Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn reports that the housing shortage in this city of 1.2 million is so bad (an average 2.8 persons to a room, four to a room in the worst slums) that one newly married couple was forced to live separately, the bride with her parents, the groom with his. The couple found privacy for lovemaking only in their tiny Fiat, parked on a dark street. But even so triumphant a Fiat accompli was rudely interrupted last month by bandits who held up the pair while they were enjoying their cramped privacy...