Word: brighams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recipients are: Georges Brigham, Rivers; Hugh Calkins, Exeter; Bille C. Carlson, Exeter; Walter F. X. Collopy, Loomis; Charles A. Coolidge, Jr., Groton; Robert D. Cross, Exeter; Daniel D. Gage, Exeter; Richard L. Gardner, Noble and Greenough; David W. Hardy, Thayer; Harold C. Hinton, St. Paul's; Gilbert King, Jr., St. George's; Dryden P. Morse, Belmont Hill; Francis Parkman, Jr., Brooks; James W. Perkins, St. George's; Henry A. R. Peyton, Andover; Charles P. Slichter, Browne and Nichols; Stephen B. Smart, Jr., Milton; John R. Thompson, Andover; J. Robertson Ward, Jr., Milton; Bigelow Watts, Jr., St. Paul's; Alan...
William L. Hawley, now at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, as Assistant in Medicine...
...Brigham Young was one of those hard-brained, extroverted, natural saints who can make any number of people do anything and like it. As Maurine Whipple presents him, a man of astonishing force, simplicity and eloquence, he is easily the most living figure in the book...
Senator-Bishop Bunker, 5 ft. 10 in., stocky, with dark wavy hair, heavy eyebrows, Clark Gable ears and a hairline mustache, is dapper, earnest, no isolationist. Like the late Brigham Young, he loves to dance.* He observes the Word of Wisdom (no tobacco, tea, coffee or strong drink), chews hundreds of sticks of gum annually; as a bishop he marries, buries, and manages church affairs without remuneration. High-school educated, the son of pioneer ranchers, he entered politics four years ago as a Young Democrat, topped the ticket in 1938 in a race for the Legislature, became Speaker...
...prig, Brigham Young founded the Salt Lake Theatre (where Maude Adams first appeared on stage, age 9 months) as one of his first creations; organized the still flourishing Young Men's & Women's Mutual Improvement Associations, whose sessions ended in dances, which were (and are) always opened with prayer. Pioneer Young wanted young Mormons to have their fun in church, not taverns...