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...June-time nuptial column finds "Shaky" Michaels adding his name. The senior dance, a rousing success, was marked by a noticeable absence of juniors. Let's hope the attendance picks up on June 9, when the "in between" class throws its ball...
...adventure stories since Anthony Adverse. Captain from Castile begins with Pedro going to confession (he had slept through the Bishop's sermon, and kissed Catana Pérez). The book ends, 633 pages later, with Pedro's bride being prepared by her mother-in-law for the nuptial bed ("And breasts so haughty! . . . Such a figure, too; skin like marble. ... I don't wonder he's mad about...
...Impatient Years (Columbia) converts a promising situation-the readjustment problems of a returning soldier and his wife-into fair-to-middling, coarsegrained comedy (typical shot: the shy pair, on their first night of reunion, prowling round & round the nuptial bed like two suspicious alley cats). Halfway through, the story goes fancy, loses touch with its touching subject but not entirely with its ability to get laughs, thanks to Jean Arthur, Charles Coburn, Lee Bowman, Charley Grapewin...
...with postwar Russia. There is unabashed wooing in Foster Rhea Dulles' The Road to Teheran. More surprising is the headlong courtship of Pitirim A. Sorokin, the Harvard sociologist who was once a member of Kerenski's Cabinet and an unrelenting foe of Lenin and Trotsky. There is nuptial jubilation in Walter Duranty's USSR. But there is little besides gloomy foreboding in David J. Dallin's Russia and Postwar Europe...
Away from the nuptial side of things we, with others in the company, still wonder whether Mike Conlon has found Lt. (j.g.) Charlie Noble...