Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaders were able to report direct and literal heavenly guidance on even such mundane subjects as Illinois real estate. But a divine revelation in 1947 would amaze no man more than Mormonism's tall, white-bearded, 77-year-old President George Albert Smith, seventh successor to the prophet Joseph Smith, and the mortal instrument through which a heavenly message would be received...
Mormonism sprang from the mind of Joseph Smith, who was born in Vermont in 1805, grew up on a Manchester, N.Y. farm, and hated to plow. He was handsome, tall, wavy-haired, had long eyelashes and a faint but unmistakable resemblance to Comic Danny Kaye. He had a fecund imagination and an instinctive sense of drama and command. At 18 he professed to be able to look into a "peep stone" and find hidden gold. He found none...
...Metropolitan's Richard Bonelli (voice), England's Griller Quartet (chamber music) and Composer Ernest Bloch (music craftsmanship) are on the faculty. Sponsors include Pierre Monteux, Artur Rodzinski, Bruno Walter, Yehudi Menuhin, Artur Rubinstein, Laurence Tibbett, Helen Traubel, Lotte Lehmann and Joseph Szigeti. Hollywooders Darryl Zanuck, Ronald Colman, Alec Templeton and Jeanette MacDonald chipped in scholarships...
...Farmer's Daughter. Loretta Young as a country maid who runs for Congress; with Joseph Gotten and Ethel Barrymore (TIME, April...
Living Dangerously. In Elmira, N.Y., St. Joseph's Hospital treated a right middle finger, dislocated when the patient pulled his hand out of his pocket. In Greencastle, Ind., thirsty John Torr tilted his head to drink a bottle of pop, was hospitalized with a cracked vertebra...