PERIPATETICS: A Trolley Named Romance

The path of true love was rougher than a Bucharest trolley track. The groom had lost his country, his throne and his fortune to the Communists. The bride was losing the blessing of her church for marrying outside its dispensation, and the bride's parents stayed away. But in Athens last week,wearing borrowed Greek crowns, Orthodox Michael of Rumania and Catholic Anne of Bourbon-Parma were at long length married.

"Come, Good Bride." Michael and Anne spent the last few days before their wedding in leisure; one afternoon they watched the demonstration of a new British jet plane. "The only thing that...

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