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...members), solidly respectable Mormon Church has learned that polygamy dies hard. Despite Mormon President Wilford Woodruff's 1890 revelation that the world was not yet ripe for plural marriage, there have been periodic polygamous scandals. Many polygamists went underground, kept their plural families in hideaways sometimes known as "lambing grounds." In the last few years the Mormons have expelled more than 200 men and women for polygamy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fundamentalists | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...Fundamentalists are a severely secretive group. They build no churches, meet quietly in members' homes. But their unabashed magazine Truth advocates polygamy as a divine command. For the Fundamentalists, who hotly reject President Woodruff's revelation, consider themselves the true disciples of the many-wived Mormon Founding Fathers, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fundamentalists | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...middle of the line Chief Specialist Frank Naumetz, co-captain at Boston College last year, coached Ed Donovan, second string last fall for Columbia, and Rick Woodruff, who made the Varsity squad here. Twenty-five ends tossed the pigskin around at the end of the field under the watchful eye of Ensign Ray Adkins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 120 Football Candidates Report to Lamar For First Fall Workout at Soldiers Field | 8/31/1943 | See Source »

...known group includes Paul Perkins, Swede Anderson, George Hibbard, Steve Mallett, and Bobby Byrnes from the Varsity squad; Paul Garrity, Rick Woodruff, and Don Blake from the Junior Varsity; and Herman Stromberg, Ray, Eder, Townsend Ellis, and Howie Gleason from the spring practice squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL MEETING TONIGHT AT 7:30 | 8/24/1943 | See Source »

...Eliot B-53 TRO 8224 Whiting, F. S. '46, Lowell H-11 TRO 9687 Wilson, G. L. '45, Leverett A-33 TRO 4222 Weis, L. W. '44, Dunster C-23 ELI 1097 Wind, L. C. '45, Lowell C-34 KIR 2193 Winthrop, R. '46, Eliot D-23 TRO 4711 Woodruff, T. O. '46, Kirkland M-42 KIR 1641 Woodward, R. F. '43, Winthrop G-43 TRO 6674 Y Yalman, R. '44, Winthrop G-25 KIR 9754 Young, M. '44, Lowell J-12 ELI 2971 Z Zamore, R. W. '46, Winthrop G-35 TRO 6667 Zeiser, B. H. '45, Leverett...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Telephone Supplement | 3/31/1943 | See Source »

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