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Utah's Founding Father Brigham Young had 27 wives, but his Mormon Church banned polygamy in 1890 by "revelation"-after losing several U.S. Supreme Court cases. Just last year Mormon President Spencer Kimball warned that "the Lord brought an end to this program many decades ago." That divine word has not reached everyone. There are some 35,000 heretical Mormons in the U.S. and Mexico who still practice polygamy...
...favorite dinners of short-rib stew or chicken-fried steak will be ready, he does not let her protective mantle smother him. Connors' father never joins his wife and son on their trips. In Los Angeles, Connors can usually be found at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club, unbending with Spencer Segura, Pancho's son and Connors' longtime friend, by playing endless games of relaxed tennis and backgammon and downing gallons of Coke...
...chill dampness, this student becomes lost in visions of refrigerators crammed with roast beef and coke, cupboards overflowing with Oreo cookies and cinnamon buns, trays filled with chocolate candies and salted peanuts (and perhaps marmalade candies if it's Passover). A late night movie starring Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy is on the living room television as the student fixes himself a salami and cheese sandwich with a pickle on the side (Mom and Dad have gone to sleep an hour ago). A high school friend stops by to smoke cigarettes and reminisce about old escapades. Vacation finally rolls around...
Gabts A Clark Gable triple feature at Gund Hall. It Happened One Night by Frank Capra and with Claudette Colbert is the best. Also Wife vs. Secretary with Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy and James Stewart, made in 1923. And San Francisco with Spencer Tracy and Jeanette Mac Donald, who tries to sing "San Francisco, open your Golden Gate." There's a great earthquake scene near...
...believe in free enterprise," says Jim Rosner, 30, president of the firm and another former employee at Spencer-Roberts. Rosner and Roberts used their public relations know-how last fall to push their training program. They put on a low-key ad campaign, supplemented with plugs by some of the nine staff members on local talk shows. Seven hundred would-be companions responded. Threshold has not yet advertised for paying clients, however, preferring to build up a stable of trained companions first. The applicants are psychologically screened to eliminate the unstable and any religious enthusiasts intent on deathbed conversions...