Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...floundering in the water. When McCrea protested that the scene had ruined one of his suits, Hitchcock sent him one the next day, made for a ten-year-old. As surprising a Hitchcock Trilby as was Joan Fontaine in Rebecca is Laraine Day (nee Johnson), a 19-year-old Mormon whose father was the first mayor of Roosevelt, Utah. In the excitement of making Foreign Correspondent, Hitchcock forgot his invariable signature, had to retake a scene in a railway station to get himself into the picture...
...Book of Mormon's story of the lost tribes of Israel...
Mount Sinai of Mormonism is the Hill Cumorah, a red-clay glacial hump near Palmyra in western New York. On Hill Cumorah, in September 1827, the Angel Moroni handed down the Word to a strapping, 21-year-old farmer-visionary named Joseph Smith, in the form of a book written on golden plates and a Urim and Thummim (stones fastened in silver bows) which enabled him to translate it. The result of Seer Smith's labors was the Book of Mormon, which ever since has been the treasured gospel of the sect he founded, the Church of Jesus Christ...
...Mormons never forgot their holy places. Finally they managed to buy back from unbelievers the farms of Joseph Smith, Martin Harris (who mortgaged his house to pay for the first printing* of the Book of Mormon) and Hill Cumorah itself. Five years ago Mormons erected a granite shaft on Hill Cumorah, topped it with a large statue of Moroni. On the slopes of the hill each summer they put on a pageant...
Givers of the pageant were the 167 Mormon missionaries to the Eastern States, in Palmyra for their annual conference. Mormon evangelists are young men and maids especially chosen by their bishops. They support themselves while proselyting, and generally serve a two-year period. Some missionaries are themselves converts. One such at Cumorah was blond, square-set Hollywood bit player Burnett Ferguson, who plans a return to acting when his evangelistic stint is done. Missionary Ferguson, whose last cinema appearance was in Dawn Patrol, had a fiery role last week as the prophet Abinadi, was burnt at the stake...