Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wisecarver, 17, tabloid-trumpeted wolf cub, who at 14 ran off with an unmarried mother seven years his senior ("You take Sinatra . . . I'll take Sonny"), ran off again at 16 with another matron of 25 ("an interlude of golden ecstasy"); and Betty Zoe Reber, 17, a plump, Mormon high-school girl; he for the second time, she for the first; in St. George, Utah...
Actress Laraine Day cleared up a little something that had puzzled people who have never been attracted to the Brooklyn Dodgers' Leo ("Lippy") Durocher. "What do I see in Leo?" echoed the Mormon-bred actress rhetorically. "I see a great charm-a great magnetism, and he doesn't drink or smoke, either...
Miss Day, who is 26, Mormon-bred, and does not smoke or drink, had an appropriate answer for that one. "Judge, why do you crucify me?" she asked. "Don't you want me to be happy?" The judge looked stern. "We did it on the spur of the moment," seconded 39-year-old Leo, hopefully. But Judge Dockweiler, apparently, had never seen the Dodgers play...
Swimming to an easy 58 to 17 victory over thrice-benten M.I.T., Coach Hal Allen's untested Mormon last night gained their second straight one sided riumph. Much closer was the Freshman meet, where the Crimson oked out a 36 to 30 win over the Techmen. Trailing by a single point, the Yardlings captured the final free style relay by a scant three fact to defeat the boys from down the Charles...
Your research regarding Joseph Smith and the "golden tablets later translated into the Book of Mormon" seems to have been very limited. Not only does Mormon history fail to corroborate your footnote [TIME, Sept. 9]-"Smith sternly refused to show the tablets, warned that a mere peep would cause instant death, himself examined them through 'magic spectacles' "-but on the contrary the testimony of eleven witnesses ... is printed on one of the first few pages of every Book of Mormon published...