Word: weddings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard, 27, and Fiancee Margaret Ann Hickman. Before the week was out, Bob Humphrey, a senior at Minnesota's Mankato State College, and Donna, a former Miss Hastings, Minn., proceeded to the next step. Amid pealing bells and the fond smiles of 675 guests, the couple were wed at St. Olaf's Roman Catholic Church in Minneapolis. Neither Uncle L.B.J. nor Auntie L.B.J. could make it, but they sent their best wishes and a nice wedding present...
...Beverly Farms home in Massachusetts, Lucy's daughter and only child, Mrs. Robert W. Knowles, revealed that her mother and father, Socialite Winthrop Rutherfurd, were wed in 1920 in a simple Roman Catholic ceremony in a private home, the unusual location being permitted because one of Widower Rutherfurd's five chil dren by his previous marriage had recently died. Lucy, her daughter said, was a devout Catholic, a fact that, together with F.D.R.'s political ambitions, is said to have kept her and F.D.R. from marrying. After Lucy's marriage, Mrs. Knowles added, she and F.D.R...
Intriguing Romance. The romance cooled in 1918, and then, writes Daniels, "supposedly he ended forever his relations with Lucy Mercer." In 1920, five months before Roosevelt became the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Vice President, Lucy Mercer was wed to a man 30 years her senior, Winthrop Rutherfurd, a New York society figure whose first wife-a daughter of former Vice President Levi Morton-had died in 1917 after bearing him five children. Lucy bore him one daughter...
...when she arrived that Carm had suffered chest pains the previous day. The listed beneficiary of $65,000 worth of insurance on his wife, Carl, 30 days after her death, applied for a license to marry-but not, as it turned out, Good Neighbor Marge. On Oct. 7 Coppolino wed handsome Mary Gibson, 38, whom he had met at his bridge lessons, and who was rumored to have won a $250,000 divorce settlement. Carl vacated the house next to Marge's and moved into Mary's far more elegant villa, where he continued work...
...often granted on tenuous grounds, and that the current strict attitude to divorce did not begin to take shape until the 12th century. Lepp concludes that the church, even while holding fast to its belief in the sanctity of marriage, ought to be less rigoristic about divorced Catholics who wed a second time...