Cupid, who does just as good business in city parks as he does in a haymow, smiled all over his face last week. New York City reported that marriage licenses were going boom. In the first half of 1941 the city issued 38,918 permits to marry10,015 more than in the first half of 1940. If the boom zooms, 1941 will be New York City's most nuptial year in history, bigger even than 1917, which turned in 76,149 legal weddings.
License officials said it was Cupid's soldier clothes. As in 1917, young men hurriedly mumbled their marriage vows before Selective Service caught...
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