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Married. Annette Dionne, 23, most vivacious of the Canadian quintuplets, the first to wed; and Germain Allard, 24, a finance-company agent; in Montreal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 21, 1957 | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...castle of Tiffauges. His parents died before he was twelve, and he came under the wing of his grandfather, Jean de Craon, a notorious libertine and murderer who felt nothing was too bad to teach the boy and nothing was too good to grab for him. Grandfather attempted to wed the boy at 13 to the four-year-old daughter of a Norman lord, but that was too much even for medieval sensitivities, and the Parliament of Caen blocked the marriage. So Grandfather kidnaped the young heiress to the barony of Tiffauges for him, insuring Gilles a dowry of chateaux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Inside the Castle | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...next in order of rank after father on a Japanese farm is the eldest son (younger sons usually leave home as soon as they are wed because they stand little chance of getting anything from father's estate after big brother is through with it). After him comes mother, who is the real ruler of the roost. At the bottom of the list cringes the daughter-in-law, or oyome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Of Rice & Women | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

Died. Peggy Hopkins Joyce (maiden name: Margaret Upton), 64, blonde, blue-eyed, oldtime showgirl, six times married, 50 times engaged (her boast), who wed and fled three U.S. millionaires in rapid succession but collected and gloried in Rolls-Royces, furs, jewels, champagne and swimming pools until she came to symbolize the high-living, big-spending '20s; of throat cancer; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 24, 1957 | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...promise made between a magnet and a nail. With Ida at his side, a shaken but straightforward Roger deals Louisa a crushing blow: "It seems as if her and me can't help it, Lou, can't keep apart, we shall have to wed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tempest in the East Riding | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

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