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After two overwhelming victories over M.I.T. and Tufts, the freshman basketball team is making coach Bruce Munro seem like an expert prophet. At the beginning of the season, Munro warned that his team had no individual stars, but functioned well as a close unit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Quintet Wins First Two Contests With Team Play | 12/20/1960 | See Source »

Rattling off memorized Portuguese phrases and well-remembered American hymns, an ebullient, white-haired apostle of Jesus last week exhorted Mormon converts in Brazil to "know in your hearts that Joseph Smith is the true prophet of God." The speaker's evangelical fervor poured forth naturally: he was Joseph Fielding Smith, 84, grandnephew of the founder, grandson of the prophet's martyred brother Hyrum, son of former Mormon President Joseph F. Smith, and himself senior member of the Council of the Twelve (the group of elders who are the spiritual and administrative leaders of the church). Traveling through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Senior Apostle | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

...other five works were plays. One of these was put on by the Harvard Dramatic Club's Theatre Workshop: The Prophet, by Gerald P. Burns '62, awkward exercise in portraying a Second Coming amid juvenile delinquency. Judith Abrams '60 and Sheila A. Greibach '60 collaborated on written for performance at Radcliffe on Senior Class Day. The other three items, of which more below, were The Beloved, by Timothy '60; The Card Game, by John D. Asher '61; and Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur L. Kopit...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Harvard Theatre Has Busiest Year Yet | 11/12/1960 | See Source »

...Bobo's former husband, and biggest wheel in the drive to bring industry to Arkansas, took to radio and TV to announce for Nixon-Lodge in an attempt to get a two-party system going in Orval Faubus' one-party state. ¶ Aging (87) David O. McKay, "Prophet, Seer and Revelator" as well as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sat side by side with Vice President Nixon (in the company of Mormon Apostle Ezra Taft Benson) in the church office in Salt Lake City and said: "I sat by your competitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Who's for Whom, Oct. 24, 1960 | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

...cars now last longer, require less maintenance cost; with more two-and three-car families, the depreciation costs run so high that owners keep their cars longer. Result: auto volume is "geared more closely to scrappage rates, population increases and the growth of the economy as a whole." The prophet of the compact car, Romney also predicted that in the 1961 model year, compacts will account for half of all new car sales - and that Rambler's 1961 sales will jump more than 26%. "The era of the dinosaur* in the auto business is drawing to a close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Reason & Realism? | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

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