European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes Edern match making its a booming business a foot wedding is a prologue to misery Thom As Fuller. 1732. Marriages Are made in heaven they say. Well a lot of them also Are made in the office of marriage would think that in this enlightened age the old time custom of the arranged match would have disappeared with the Advent of youth quake the now generation Marshall Mcluhan Timothy Lesry an computerized dating. Marriage brokers say june Moon spoon altar business is booming. And for one big reason. There is More loneliness inthe world than Ever before. No matter All that Java about instant communications at the boy meets girl level they be become More difficult because of in creasing urbanization the population Boom the mobility of families. The yellow pages of the new York Telephone directory Bear this out for the list of marriage brokers runs 12 inches of single spaced Are not to be confused with strictly lonely hearts clubs nor with marriage Counselor. Brok ers operate on the premise that their clients Are look ing earnestly for a partner. Lonely hearts clubs just ease the Way of people s meeting. And Counselor Are the experts often physicians or psychologists who try to keep a marriage together if trouble brews Long after the honeymoon. One of the busiest professional cupids in the nation insists that matches he makes never need the counsel or. I be arranged More than 3,000 weddings in my 38years in the business said Irving Field. Not one divorce in the Field. 58, claims his secret is in the meticulous screening of those seeking a marriage partner they re matched for compatibility of interests age religious affiliations and economic status. There also has to be Mutual physical attraction he adds. An Given All these assurances love blossoms. Field has theories too about keeping love in each other he advises newlyweds. Don t be selfish. Help each other in All thoughtful of each other. I think More important than diamonds Are the Little gifts a Man remembers to bring Home to his Field who claims he runs the largest marriage brokerage in the nation is Strong on the compatibility Angle. He said he would not match make boy and girl of different religious or racial backgrounds and his clients include jewish Catholic and protestant. Norwill he pair off a May december age group. When there Are so Many available with similar qualities he said Why take a risk this broker operates with a Cross file elaborate enough to Call for a computer operation but it does t. Mary Neth editor Field opposes computerized Matching because with out personal interviews solid references who knows what you a be getting Riffraff an sex con a sex maniac. Every person who comes to him fills out a for about As Long As an income tax return and then the details Are indexed by Field s staff. Few girls come in looking for husbands Field said. It s their Parent who show up and without the girl s knowledge the girl never knows at least not from me hat her parents have been in said Field that the Man she is marrying came Oul in Index file but he said 90 per cent of the masculine potential shave come to his office on their own. Rarely do a boys parents worry about his Bachelor Hood usual a Sis Psi of Wolfl to Orange for a girl to meet at least three potential husbands at first and a lot l0d,, with a parents. A father May casually Tell his daughter say a business Friend of mine knows this Nice Young fellow he May ,8 it wv1 Welty calculating it is. Bui Fiel Duffa to at to a we thousands of marriage minded people abroad in the land marriages May be made in heaven smiles the Dapper broker it i m the agent the agent would t disclose his tees Euh de Pended on How Long a matchmaking takes arranged i marriages and dowries Date Back for centuries. Who knows maybe even the Caveman was a have been a custom in the old eld s father David started the family s matchmaking business. Field continued in new Yor Kafter he Anco his Brothers migrated from Russia. Downs at least under that name no longer a but Money still is a Factor. L u get Young men on the Way in business or �profession/1 said Field and they quite frankly a Hoy want a girl with some Money in her family. The by 1 ,c?4rse a to to help him until he can it established. And Many a Parent agrees to in that How he had met a we � of some Fier uck fell Al a cent he said and we 8 i?1"1. 116 Type a he was looking for. She said i guess actually somebody like on mine said the broker on that Case i lost me. I i
