Word: mormons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saint or sinner, Joseph Smith Jr., founder and prophet of Mormonism, possessed a personality so powerful and fascinating that men, and women too, have sought down the years to "know his heart." One of these is Mormon-born (but Mormon no more) Fawn M. Brodie. What she has learned she tells with skill and scholarship and admirable detachment in No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith (Knopf...
With a dedicated air, rather like the Angel Moroni revealing the Book of Mormon to Joseph Smith, ex-Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, 76, has published his Memoirs of Governor Murray and True History of Oklahoma (1,683 pages; weight: six pounds). The title is a generous understatement. The three volumes are not only a history of Oklahoma, but a history of the world (often somewhat original...
...nearly a week the peaceful, prosperous town (pop. 15,000) of Idaho Falls, on the lush east bank of Idaho's Snake River, had been swarming with Mormon pilgrims and sightseers at the rate of 8,000 a day. The Chamber of Commerce scoured the countryside for 50 miles around to find places for travelers to eat and sleep...
...enter a temple, good-standing Mormons must be "morally clean," accept doctrines and sustain authorities of the church, have no sympathy with new-rule-breaking polygamists. Anybody may go into a not-so-holy Mormon tabernacle or church...
Secretly Governor Wallgren began calling in sound engineers, grew more & more excited. Finally he announced: "The Capitol possesses a musical sounding board the equal of the most famous in the world. . . ." There were hasty comparisons to the Vatican and the Mormon temple...