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Last week another Mormon went to the Senate. Nevada's Governor E. P. Carville (a Catholic) appointed to the seat of the late Key Pittman a 34-year-old L. D. S. bishop, Berkeley Lloyd Bunker, a Texaco filling-station operator of Las Vegas...
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...
...Senate's age average dropped, with oldsters being replaced by such men as Senator-Bishop Bunker and Senator-Newshawk Joseph Ball of Minnesota (35) its Mormon quota had gone up. Already sitting were Saints William H. King and D.Thomas of Utah. Lame Duck King will be replaced Jan. 3 by chubby Saint Abe Murdock. One indirect Mormon loss: the passing from politics of Mormon-admiring Henry F. Ashurst of Arizona...
...rail-riding mobs, secret service, forlorn defenses, intrigue, massacres, exile, and there is the usual restrained Roberts love story. There are also great scenes: the headlong flight by sea of thousands of tory refugees and British troops from Boston; the heroic stupidity of the repeated British frontal attacks at Bunker Hill, seen through tory eyes from Charlestown windows and roof tops...
Collectors will cover the college once more for the advantage of students who have yet been unable to fulfill their pledges. Contributions may also be made by check either to Treasurer John Bunker '42 or to the War Relief Drive offices in Phillips Brooks House...