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Irving Ives promptly agreed. For Watkins the decision was tougher. As a practicing Mormon, he is opposed to gambling on principle, reluctantly accepts the Senate custom ("It isn't really gambling") for lack of a practical alternative. Moreover, out of eight previous turns at Senate coin tossing, he has lost eight times. At length, as Bricker flipped the coin experimentally, Watkins gave in. "Heads," he called as the quarter whirled in the air. It came up tails. Sighed Arthur Watkins: "My record of losing at this is still intact...
...only Western state in which the Republicans gained strength, attributable to very poor Democratic organization and the increased popularity of the GOP among the Mor-mons, who comprise two-thirds of Utah's population. Eisenhower's appointment and apparent approval of Ezra Taft Benson, a high official of the Mormon Church, as Secretary of Agriculture and of Ivy Baker Priest as Treasurer has greatly increased the power of the Republican party in Utah...
Eventually, he more than fulfilled his vow. In 1950 he took over as president, promptly launched the most vigorous building campaign that shaky B.Y.U. had ever known. In 1954 top Mormon leaders gathered on campus in Provo to dedicate not one, but 22 modern buildings. Last week they were back again to dedicate twelve more. In only seven years, Ernest Wilkinson, 58, has turned B.Y.U. into one of the largest church-owned universities in the U.S., with a 1957 enrollment of more than...
...Reason to Go. Since the day in 1875 when Mormon Leader Brigham Young decided that his followers must have an academy to train Mormon teachers ("I want you to remember," he told its first permanent head "that you ought not to teach even the alphabet or the multiplication tables without the spirit of God. That is all. God bless you. Goodbye"), B.Y.U. has had a most uncertain career. Though it has turned out such men as Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, Senator Arthur Watkins and U.S. Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland (one of Franklin Roosevelt's "nine...
...prosperous Washington, D.C. lawyer, Wilkinson proposed a plan that was exactly the same as one he had advocated while editor of the student paper. "The way to build this university," said he in 1921, "is to use the machinery of the Mormon Church." As president, he persuaded Mormon leaders to shower the university with money. He also persuaded them to tell the church's stakes, wards and missions" to send him their brightest boys and girls. In some quarters, his brisk way of doing things earned him the title of "Little Napoleon." To others he was "the Little Dynamo...