Word: honeymoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White Sheik is a mercilessly funny exploitation of these magazines. Wanda, one of the exploitees, has been reading all the "fumetti" for years, but of all the heroes, the White Sheik is her favorite. On her honeymoon in Rome with a healthy Italian villager, she takes off in search of the White Sheik to whom she has already written under the name of "Bamba Appassionata" (Passionate Doll). Somehow Wanda gets thrown into proximity with a secretary who advises her that "To dream is to live!", and then a moving van, and then many pseudo-Arabs and neo-Moorish hordes...
Back from their fortnight honeymoon in the Bahamas, New York Timesman Clifton Daniel and his bride, Margaret Truman Daniel, played it plain, set a refreshingly unobtrusive tone for their future public appearances. Said Cliff Daniel to fellow newsmen at New York International Airport: "We're an old married couple now, and we're not news any more." Asked if she plans to step back into radio and TV stardom, the girl from Missouri replied: "As long as it doesn't interfere with my husband's career...
...honeymoon mood got so overpowering that it was hard to believe it really wasn't June until Khrushchev genially informed his British hosts that a Russian Tupolev jet transport "covers the distance from Moscow to London in three and a half hours," and coupled this statement with pointed reminders of the existence of hydrogen bombs and intercontinental guided missiles. Just about then, everyone remembered that it really was still April-which Poet T. S. Eliot long ago called the "cruellest month...
After the wedding a select but friendly 250 gathered at the Truman home for a reception. After 30 minutes in the receiving line, bride and groom slipped away to catch a train for the first leg of their honeymoon in Nassau. Margaret Truman had not been the only important bride of the week, but when it was all said and done, hers was the wedding that gave the U.S. that next-door feeling even if the nation stood on tiptoe to catch every detail of the other...
...time for the words "The End" to close in as the royal yacht bore the happy couple off to a honeymoon somewhere behind the setting sun. But for the bricklayer's daughter, Grace Patricia Kelly Grimaldi, and her Graustarkian Prince, it was, after all, less an end than, as in real life, only the beginning...