Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Semi-Educated. DeVoto's battles began early. The "child of an apostate Mormon and an apostate Catholic," he entered the University of Utah at 17, founded...
PAPA MARRIED A MORMON (298 pp.) -John D. Fitzgerald -Prentice-Hall...
...grandeur of the mountain peaks. I love you with the humility of a peasant for a princess . . . Don't be afraid of the wrath of your people. My love for you will shield and protect you." Papa was a Roman Catholic and a journalist, and Mama was a Mormon, but they soon eloped to Salt Lake City. It was the first of four marriages to each other (two civil, one Mormon, one Catholic), which is as close as anybody in this book gets to polygamy...
Papa Married a Mormon is a mock bucolic western in the vein of an Agnes de Mille ballet scored for six guns. It is rarely convincing, but frequently amusing, and few readers will want to revoke the "poetic license" Author Fitzgerald claims in salting the tales of his kith and kin. Take his Uncle Will, for instance -that's his gamblin' and killin' uncle. In a 15-hour poker session Uncle Will won the Whitehorse Saloon and helped the former owner forget his troubles by plugging him with his pearl-handled revolver. The Whitehorse was the hottest...
...signs of slump. Farm debts are at record-low levels; seven out of ten farms are free of mortgage; the ratio of debts to assets is only 11%, compared to 19% in 1940. Viewing that part of the picture last week, Ezra Benson could say with a clear Mormon conscience: "The facts are that American agriculture is in sound financial condition...