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License officials said it was Cupid's soldier clothes. As in 1917, young men hurriedly mumbled their marriage vows before Selective Service caught them-not to avoid serving in the Army, but to sandwich in a brief honeymoon before they went off alone to camp. On the day after graduation day at West Point, chaplains were busy from 9:30 a.m. until dusk, married 26 second lieutenants with the ink barely dry on their commissions...
Three years ago Traveler FitzPatrick met a Chicago newspaper woman. They married and for their honeymoon the couple selected one of the few sight-seeing spots the bridegroom had never visited: Niagara Falls, Land of Newlyweds. Now 39, father of two, FitzPatrick has a small "self-sustaining" island near Victoria, B.C., and a consuming desire to make feature pictures. War or no war, he no longer cares to roam, says plaintively: "Now I get homesick...
...Army, fought Turkey, emerged as Chief of Staff of the A.I.F., then retired to versatile successes, as a police commissioner, businessman, radio commentator. One month before World War II broke out he bought a little seaside home, got married and prepared to go off into the wilds for a honeymoon. He never went. He was called up to command the entire Australian Infantry Force...
Recalled from his wedding trip after only three days, Marine Corps Captain Jimmy Roosevelt hove wanly to, with his bride in tow, in San Francisco. "It's pretty tough to have to break up a honeymoon like this," declared Jimmy, "but duty is duty." Duty: to Clipper at once to the Orient, leaving his bride behind...
Eight years ago, on their honeymoon, the Perelmans wrote another play, All Good Americans, which failed to come off. Later they collaborated on the script for Ambush, one of 1939's best pictures, and Mr. Perelman gagged the best of the Marx Brothers' films. His best book (of four) was his first, Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge (1929). On its jacket was the blurb: "This book does not stop at Yonkers." The Night Before Christmas does...