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...Barbara Ann Edwards was only 18, a tiny girl with a winning smile-especially when she looked at U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet Ules Lee Barnwell Jr., 22, of Greenville, S.C. But in the year that they knew each other, neither Barbara Ann nor Lee Barnwell had much to smile about...
They had met and fallen in love in March 1958 at an academy dance, which Barbara Ann attended on crutches because of a foot broken in a skiing accident. By last December they were engaged, looking forward happily and hopefully to Lee Barnwell's graduation, when they could be married. Then their troubles began. Barbara Ann's foot did not heal properly, and she entered a Denver hospital for surgery. When she awoke from anesthesia after the operation, Air Cadet Barnwell was at her bedside. He had borrowed a car and driven from Colorado Springs to be with...
When she learned that Jordan's King Hussein was planning to visit the Air Force Academy, Barbara Ann sent him a telegram, begging him to grant Barnwell amnesty during his stay-a right traditionally given visiting heads of state by U.S. military academies.* But a snowstorm forced Hussein to cancel his tour of the academy; he wired his regrets and best wishes for a happy marriage...
...until June 2, the day before the Air Force Academy's first graduation exercises, were Barbara Ann Edwards and Lee Barnwell reunited. Two days later, after commencement, commissioning, and a full-dress, crossed-swords wedding at Denver's Christ the King Roman Catholic Church, the couple began their honeymoon. Last week, driving through southwest Colorado toward New Mexico on Colorado Highway 172, Barnwell lost control of his new, red MG roadster. The car overturned, throwing both Barbara Ann and her husband clear. "I'm O.K.," Lieut. Lee Barnwell groggily told a state trooper. "Take care...
...whose matrimonial misadventures have set him back roughly $1,000,000 so far, sprang a few surprises that set even jaded old Hollywood buzzing. First off, Mickey casually let drop that he had divorced Elaine, by her leave, in Mexico last December. His fiancée-to-be, Barbara Thomason, 22, a sometime starlet, had gone along for the ride. Feeling free as an uncaged lovebird, Rooney married her on the spot. Then Mickey uncorked a real showstopper: Barbara expects a child around September's end. Elaine sidled back into the act to declare: "I won't feel...