The Soldier
With The Wide Grin
A wartime newspaper photo brought Saul and Adele Gaines together.
Asks Four Questions
At Greenland Seder
Adele and Saul Gaines
DATE OF MARRIAGE
March 7, 1948
How THEY ME
The Jewish News
FIRST DATE
Three Sixes, a Detroit nightclub
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,
JULIE WIENER
Staff Writer
dele Gaines found her besh-
ert through The Jewish
News, but it wasn't through
the People-Voice Connector
personal ads.
On a Friday afternoon in April
1945, Adele noticed Greenland-sta-
tioned Corporal Saul Ginsberg (he
later changed the name to Gaines),
peering out from the "Jews In Uni-
form" page of the newspaper. "I -
turned to my mother and said, 'Look
at this nice looking boy.' And my
mother answered with the prayer all
mothers uttered during the war, 'God
A
should only watch over him and let
him come home safe,'" recalled Adele.
"He was a complete stranger to
me and out of the hundreds of pho-
tos that ran, his was the one I
remembered," she continued. "He
was young and good-looking with
the widest, biggest grin and an over-
seas cap cocked on the side of his
head."
Two years later, she spotted Saul at
a wedding reception and approached
him. "She came up to me and said she
had seen my picture in the paper,"
recalled Saul. "I was with a friend of
mine who I'd known 20 years, and
after Adele left and went off with a
group of friends I said to my friend,
`See that girl? I'm going to marry
her.'"
Marry they did, and within a year,
despite a glitch on the first date.
"There was a misunderstanding, and
we each thought it was scheduled for a
different day," said Saul. "I thought
she'd stood me up, so I was really
angry, but then I called her back and
asked her to go out with me again,
and we went to a nightclub in Detroit
called Three Sixes."
This June the couple — now living
in Florida — will join their three chil-
dren in Detroit for a slightly overdue
50th anniversary celebration (the actual
date was March 7). "She's quite a lady,"
said Saul of his wife.
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