Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-five years ago Louis Eckstein, rich Chicago merchant and real estate operator, began sponsoring summer orchestra concerts at Ravinia Park, 37 acres of woods he owned on suburban Chicago's North Shore. Later, not instruments but voices made Ravinia famed. The Ravinia Opera which Louis Eckstein produced, signing up the best artists, casting them, supervising every production detail, cost him some $1,500,000 before Depression halted it four years ago (TIME, April 11, 1932). Patron Eckstein, who kept hoping to revive Ravinia, died last winter. Last week there was orchestra music once more in the open-sided...
CHARLES COULSON RICH-John Henry Evans-Macmillan ($3.50). Of all the restless religious sects spawned in the U. S., Mormonism went furthest, made the biggest splash. Nowadays as settled and respectable as any other church, in its early years it roused its neighbors to a fury of apprehensive persecution, even threw a scare into the U. S. Government. Present-day "Gentiles" know little of Mormon history, few Mormon heroes except Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. After reading Charles Coulson Rich they could add another name to their list of Latter-day Saints, many an historical fact to a little-known...
Mormonism got Rich at both their beginnings; he was 21, the Faith, 1. That was in 1831. He was a big boy (6 ft. 4) who worked on his father's 600-acre Illinois farm in the summer, in winter taught school. After his conversion he left home from time to time to preach the new gospel. On one of these sallies he heard of a pious and nubile maiden named Sarah Pea, straightway sat down and wrote her a sober proposal of marriage. Like a good girl, Sarah shut her eyes, opened her Bible, stabbed with her finger...
...delicately called it, plural marriage-was not et an acknowledged Mormon practice. Mormon communities in the East and Midwest were surrounded by citizens who frowned on such Old Testament goings-on. But Prophet Joseph Smith had already secretly taken the step, initiated a chosen few into the same fellowship. Rich, a sobersided, promising and healthy recruit, was one whom the Prophet commanded to do likewise. He talked the matter over with Sarah and both decided to comply with the semi-divine command, provided Sarah chose the candidates. In quick succession Husband Rich took on four more wives, later a fifth...
...Meantime Rich had left home, settled with fellow-Saints in Missouri. When local antagonism against the Mormons got too hot for them, the Riches went along with their brethren on the 1,100-mile trek to the Promised Land of Utah. As a hard working, efficient officer, finally as second in command of the Mormon army (the Nauvoo Legion), Charles Rich made a name for himself as one of the most useful Saints in Zion. After the hardships of the journey and the first starvation days in the new land, he was further upped in rank...