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...read. It has hurt the country, too. We don't know our candidates like we used to." Ten Carloads of Horses. Knight's parents both came of solid, pioneer, Mormon stock. His maternal grandfather, Judge John Milner, was a British lawyer who went to Provo, Utah for his health, became Brigham Young's secretary, a Mormon, and a fount of culture and learning...
Goodwin Jess,* their second child, was born in a tiny house in Provo in 1896. Father Knight was restless and bored with the law, and when Goodie was still a small boy, the family moved on to Los Angeles, taking along ten carloads of mountain horses to sell in California as a grubstake...
Matter of Pride. Among the larger cities on the itinerary were New Orleans, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Denver. But the Boston also carried its flag into such towns as El Paso, Texas, Santa Barbara, Fresno, and Sacramento, Calif., and Provo, Utah. Wherever it went, the Boston offered only one standard: the same kind of solid musical fare it plays at home, with generous servings of Brahms, Berlioz, Stravinsky and Honegger...
...homeward through Denver and Chicago, the traveling Bostonians began to think that perhaps the heathen west of the mountains were more eager for salvation than the faithful at home. "They just seem to explode with the music, here in the West," said a percussionist after an overflow concert in Provo. Said a clarinetist, thinking of the many times that Southern and Western audiences had given the Bostonians standing ovations: "Back home, they take us so much more for granted...
...Which? Dr. Hammon was reporting on results of the $1,000,000 tests (paid for by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) in Provo, Utah, Sioux City, Iowa, and Houston (TIME, July 14). In all, 54,772 children aged one to eleven got inoculations while polio epidemics were raging. Half the children received shots of gamma globulin, the small fraction of human blood which contains protective antibodies. The other half received useless (but harmless) gelatin. Nobody, not even the doctors, knew at the time which child got which shot...