Word: founder
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...Dancing has a tendency to invigorate the spirit and promote health," said the founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith of Palmyra, N.Y. Last week at Salt Lake City's University of Utah Stadium, 8,000 young Mormons in blue skirts and white blouses. Spanish costumes, tangerine and black jumpers or pastel formals romped and whirled through a two-night program of waltzes, fox trots, folk dances, tangos, rumbas and square and round dances and even some "toned-down" jitterbug steps...
...world before eager eyes. Sometimes they work alone amid squalor and risk; sometimes they haunt the watering holes of wealth. Wherever they are, some 300 artist-hustlers are likely to swap fond recollections of the quiet little man who launched them: Clarence A. (for Abel) Bach, 65, founder of the first U.S. high school photo-journalism course. Last week, after 34 brilliant years at Los Angeles' John C. Fremont High School, Clarence Bach retired...
...seeks to annihilate all other religions and to establish Soka Gakkai (literal translation: the value-creating study group) as the national religion of Japan. New to politics, this flamboyant sect first made its mark in the April municipal elections when 337 of its 362 candidates were elected to office. Founder Tsunesaburo Makiguchi believed that mankind's salvation lay in the teachings of the Buddhist saint Nichiren* By merely chanting the magic formula, "Namu My oho Rengekyo [I devote myself to the Scripture of the Lotus of the Wonderful Law]," a believer not only freshens his mind but is able...
Smith College Chien-Shiung Wu, physicist, co-disprover of the famed law of the conservation of parity Sc.D. Gwendolyn Grant Mellon, philanthropist, nurse, founder with her husband of Haiti's Albert Schweitzer Hospital L.H.D...
Died. John Cromwell Lincoln, 92, founder (1893) of Lincoln Electric Co., one of the world's largest welding-equipment manufacturers, inventor who took out more than 50 patents for electrical devices, owner of a real estate empire reputed to be worth $100 million, pamphleteer who promoted the single-tax ideas of Henry George and ran for U.S. Vice President in 1924 on the single-tax platform of the Commonwealth Land Party; in Scottsdale. Ariz...