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Tracy's wife and his daughter's in-laws (Billie Burke and Moroni Olson) begin jockeying to get their loving hands on the expected child. Tracy himself is drawn into the contest as they compete with offers of house space, gifts, suggested names. He suffers other pangs: the fright of finding his daughter a back-to-nature devotee of childbirth-without-fear; the nuisance of patching up her jealous spat with her husband (Don Taylor) ;the strain of rushing to the hospital for a false alarm. His grandson completes the torment by taking a special dislike...
...discovered more awesome treasure. It was a pentecostal time of wild religious mysticism and hysteria. Scores of thousands of Americans were pondering the second coming of Christ, thronging into camp meetings where they danced, hopped, screeched and talked convulsively "in tongues." Joseph Smith's story: an angel named Moroni had told him where to unearth some golden plates covered with mystic symbols...
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...
...battle each soldier is alone. To Private Alvan Mendelsohn it was a foxhole on a hilltop beyond El Guettar, reading a magazine when the shelling got heavy by day and at night lying there waiting to know if his number was coming up. To Corporal Isaac Lorenzo Moroni Parker it was the sonofabitching Kasserine Pass. To Private First Class Michael Scotto di Clementi it was digging a slit trench beside the colonel's tent in an oasis and wondering if anybody remembered Micky Scott of Our Gang comedies. To Major General Terry Allen it was a satisfying pride...
...dream the Angel Moroni appeared to young Joseph Smith and told him where to find the gold plates on which was written, in cryptic characters, the Book of Mormon. The boy went and found the plates, and translated them. Thus, in the year 1830, in Fayette, N.Y., he founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, long hated and reviled by Gentiles because it hallowed the custom of taking several wives...