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...Mulder and Mortensen's Among the Mormons is an excellent example of this new objectivity. Although both the editors are Mormon in background, they have written a book whose tone is remarkably detached...
...Mulder and Mortensen have also garnered brief accounts of Mormonism from a lineup of 19th century notables: Horace Greeley, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson (who called Mormonism an "after-clap of Puritanism"), John Greenleaf Whittier, and Mark Twain. The latter's revulsion at the concept of polygamy melted at his first sight of the "poor, ungainly and pathetically 'homely' creatures" that were the Mormon wives. "No," Twain wrote, "--the man that marries one of them has done an act of Christian charity which entitles him to the kindly applause of mankind, not their harsh censure--and the man that marries...
However, this is the first book of its kind, and it is one which succeeds in capturing the drama and the color of Mormonism. One of the main reasons for this success is the extremely well-written editors' introductions to each account, which seem to bear Mulder's stylistic imprint...
...fairly even fights; King's opponent, Abe Allen, lost by one point to Dan Ray last year; Chuck Olentine, who will face Harvard's Rod Skinner at 155, bowed to Don Louria for two years but was never pinned; Stan Thompson, at 165, will be rated over Dean Mulder; Claflin will take on Philo Lange, former Exeter wrestling captain and an All-American lacrosse player...
...does every week, small businessman Jim Mulder of Lemon Grove, Calif. tucked his paid bills, sales slips and the salary record of his one employe into an envelope and dropped it into a mailbox. The envelope, and all Jim Mulder's bookkeeping worries, went to "Mail-Me-Monday." By last week, some 3,000 small businessmen in 58 U.S. and Canadian cities were doing the same thing...