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Part of Barnaby's task will be to groom Elyse Jacobs, an outstanding athlete with a previously limited exposure to squash. Jacobs attended Michigan University, graduating the same spring Barnaby retired...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Coach Jack Is Back | 9/21/1979 | See Source »

Though the Beasleys had in fact been married earlier in a Roman Catholic church to please their parents, they wanted a handfasting, because for them it alone contained "the spiritual element," as the groom put it. A priest and priestess at the festival, Jim Alan and Selena Fox, members of a pagan commune near Madison, Wis., called the Church of Circle Wicca, did the honors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Preaching Pan, Isis and Om | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...friends were vague about the ceremony. They said it took place last October on a mountainside outside Tokyo while Connors was nursing an ankle injury. Whatever happened in Japan, they were definitely married in a civil ceremony in February in St. Louis, from which area the bride and groom both hail. The retired Playmate is expecting in August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 19, 1979 | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...connubial week. First, in the Vatican's stately Pauline Chapel, the Pope kept a promise to a Rome street-cleaner's daughter who had boldly asked him to officiate at her wedding. The glowing bride, Vittoria lanni, 22, received a papal buss and so did the nervous groom, Mario Maltese, 24. "May you have long life and may you see the sons of your sons," prayed the Pope in nuptial blessing. Later in the week, the Pope tuned in the state-owned second radio network to catch the premiere broadcast of The Goldsmith's Shop, a play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 12, 1979 | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

According to tradition, the newlyweds sneak away at midnight, but the dancing and partying continues unabated. Finally at about 7 a.m. all the young people pay a visit to the new home of the Bride and groom, bursting into their bedroom and making them drink a vile concoction of hot chocolate, champagne, wedding cake, and toilet paper, all neatly contained in a chamber...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: The Other France: Life Among the Peasants | 2/1/1979 | See Source »

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