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...groom was Captain Harold Macmillan, a Grenadier Guard, Old Etonian and classical scholar of Balliol, who would almost certainly never have written a book about himself (the family publishes, but does not write) had he not also, by the laws of the British invention called natural selection, become Prime Minister...
...this sophisticated age, there was no poet to sing, as Walt Whitman did for Nellie Grant in 1874: "O bonnie bride! Yield thy red cheeks today unto a Nation's loving kiss." Instead, the bride and groom were greeted outside the church by anti-Viet Nam pickets. Inside though, there were no Republicans or Democrats, no hawks or doves, no Northerners or Southerners-only guests at a solemn ceremony. No TV or radio was allowed within, but millions of people throughout the U.S. kept a sort of vigil while the couple knelt inside the National Shrine of the Immaculate...
...Johnson family cook for 23 years. "Oh, Zassie," said Luci, "you look so pretty. I love your dress." Much was made of Zassie's fried chicken and spoon bread, without which, apparently, the Johnsons would never have endured. Zassie, at any rate, got busses from both bride and groom. When much-divorced Supreme Court Justice William Douglas came through the line, pulling along his newest young bride for introductions, the reaction was quite different. Luci's effusive manner cooled noticeably, and she offered only a perfunctory handshake...
...Marie Monroe's groom was Samuel Lawrence Gouverneur, her father's private secretary and scion of a distinguished New York clan; Elizabeth Tyler's groom was William Waller, a tobacco planter and lawyer; Nellie Grant's Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris came from a wealthy British family; Alice Roosevelt's Nicholas Longworth was a Representative who later became House Speaker; Jessie Wilson's was Francis Bowes Sayre, a lawyer; Eleanor Wilson's was William Gibbs McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury; and Anna Roosevelt's second husband was John Boet-tiger, a newspaper correspondent...
...bride decked out in the formal regalia, morning coat and striped trousers, that he refused to don for the presidential inauguration in 1965. While the organist plays Paraphrase on a Trumpet Tune by Henry Purcell, the wedding party-mostly young friends and schoolmates of the bride and groom-will shepherd its charge up a 400-ft. marble aisle to a chancel large enough to accommodate a concourse of cardinals. The bride's attendants will wear pink gowns; the groomsmen will be attired in cutaways rented at $11 each. Luci and Pat, having climbed 50 steps from the street, will...