The couple is still happily hitched, a fact that has led to their naming as the "longest married couple" in the U.S. for 2013 by Worldwide Marriage Encounter, a Christian marriage group based in San Bernardino, Calif.

WSJ: Conn. couple named 'longest married' in US

Meanwhile, the racy pre-Code humor evokes pre-Christian immorality, and a couple of production numbers by Busby Berkeley (including an offensive one featuring Cantor in blackface) luridly choreograph the elaborate social rituals built up around the biological drive to procreate.

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Liberty's Web courses face strong competition from the Christian online school Grand Canyon University (10, 000 students), acquired a couple of years ago by Significant Education, a Phoenix, Ariz. private equity group.

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