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...gaiety in Europe, marrying and divorcing regularly. After fifteen consecutive wanderjahre a cable catches up with him in Kenya, informing him that his daughter is going to marry. He rushes to the scene, snows the long time unseen daughter, piques the ex-wife, gripes the stepfather and disgruntles the groom. He wants to return to the Europe of his youth with his daughter in her mother's place just to prove he's as lively as he ever...
...accomplish this he makes the young man look the lout he is, and draws beautiful pictures of what his and daughter's life in the Aegean could be. First she thinks he's kidding, then she takes him up on it and they leave, leaving the groom and the ex-wife in the lurch and feeling bad. The daughter says she will come back "a fulfilled woman...
...week after graduation ('30), he married Philadelphia Socialite Mary Todhunter Clark (sniffed a Main Line matron: "A young New York man is marrying into the Clark family"). Wedding present from the groom's parents: a year's trip around the world. Armed with letters of introduction to government officials and Standard Oil executives, Nelson and "Tod" Rockefeller journeyed from Europe to India to the Far East, spent most of their honeymoon discussing world problems with Prime Ministers and potentates...
Sarah did indeed reign at court as Groom of the Stole, Mistress of the Robes, Keeper of the Privy Purse. Soon, Arnie's entourage swarmed with Sarah's relations, including cousin Abigail Hill, a penniless gentlewoman who had sunk to the role of "dust broom" (as Sarah put it) to a titled lady. What happened next seems, as Author Kronenberger says, "too much in the flashy traditions of the theater to have happened in real life." Slowly, week by week, Abigail, the dowdy waif, replaced Sarah as the dowdy Queen's bosom friend-largely because Sarah...
...fine phrases-"class struggle," "power of the party," "workers' glory and honor." The bridal couple pledge themselves to faithful service of "the workers' and peasants' might," everyone sings the East German national anthem, and children recite "socialistic poems." Fellow workers hand over their presents, bride and groom are showered with flowers, the orchestra plays the Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana, and it's all over...