Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might have seemed silly to Lena Wilson and James A. ("Bud") Stillman Jr., but for days before their wedding took place last week, newspaperdom was on hand at Grande Anse with questions and cameras thrice as active as for any usual wedding in "high society." The simplest way to handle the situation seemed to be to let newspaperdom have its own way and the bride and groom did just that. They wandered around amiably before the reporters; posed beside the four-foot wedding cake Chef Hunter of the Stillman yacht was making; said, yes, their children would be Roman null...
...right out with them. Mrs. Stillman, while supervising the transformation of the colonial mansion into a "sylvan bower" for a pageant to include kilted bagpipers, ushers in lumbering shirts, and wines by the truckload, talked with frankness and concentration to the reporters. She discussed the Indian blood in Lena Wilson. "What of it?" she said. "There are good Indians. Bearing in one's veins a strain of the blood of the natives of this gorgeous country is certainly nothing to deny or explain...
...discussed a rumored maneuver by the Wilson family to make "a good thing" financially out of Lena's marriage: "I saw that soon enough and when I did I stopped it. There will be none of that. I know my people of the river too well...
People who compared the Tribune's performance with the attitudes of other newspapers were reminded of a remark once credited to Mrs. Lena Wilson Stillman, which seemed to summarize the entire event: "Nice people are nice the whole world over...
Married. James A Stillman Jr., 22, of Manhattan, son of James A. Stillman, onetime president of the national City Bank, Manhattan, to Miss Lena Wilson, 18, of La Tuque, Quebec; at his parents' summer home, Grande Anse, Quebec...