Word: deseret
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MIDGLEY, Leslie, 54, CBS executive producer. Born in Salt Lake City, attended University of Utah. City editor, Salt Lake City Deseret News, 1935-40; night editor, New York Herald-Tribune Paris edition, 1944-49; associate editor, Collier's, 1949; managing editor, Look, 1952-54; producer, CBS News from 1954. Married (to Betty Furness), three children. Registered Democrat...
There was little in the genial teenage editor of the Boy Scout page of Utah's Deseret News in 1937 to foreshadow Anderson the persistent muckraker. Except diligence. Attending school in the morning, newspapering during his off-hours, Anderson wound up making more money-at 150 for each column inch that he got into print-than some of the full-time reporters. By the time he was 18, he was a full-fledged reporter for the Salt Lake City Tribune. Two years of missionary preaching (customary among young Mormons) through Georgia, Alabama and Florida, followed by a tour...
Harvard University Debate Council, H-R Young Democrats, H-R Students for a Democratic Society, Harvard Deseret Club, H-R Discussion Group, Harvard Drama Review, Harvard Dramatic Club, Dunster Dunces, Episcopal Chaplaincy at H & R, H-R Experiment in International Living, H-R Returnees of the American Field Service, Film Studies...
...voice of Mormonism characterizes the American scene from Salt Lake City. Deeply concerned with U.S. morals, the Deseret News (circ. 90,224) finds them slipping everywhere -toward permissiveness, collectivism and individual irresponsibility...
...articulates the Mormon moral outlook. If he won the Republican nomination, the editors concede that they might break precedent and support him. The News was founded in 1850, three years after Brigham Young and his followers arrived in Salt Lake Valley. According to the Book of Mormon, the word deseret means honeybee. For a while the News had Salt Lake City pretty much to itself. But in 1870, the Tribune was started to "oppose the undue exercise of priestly authority." Under the ownership of a wealthy Roman Catholic family named Kearns, the Tribune eventually surpassed the News because...