Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jarvis, his third wife and her sister live in an unpretentious two-bedroom, $80,000 house (on which he annually pays $1,800 in taxes based on a 1976 assessment) in West Los Angeles. Though he was raised as a Mormon, he drinks vodka and smokes a pipe as well as cigars. He spends most of his days in a cluttered downtown office, dividing his time between his duties as un-salaried chairman of the taxpayers' group and paid director ($17,000 a year) of the Apartment Association of Los Angeles County, a landlords' organization. He devotes hours...
Three weeks after Howard Hughes died of kidney failure in 1976, his purported will surfaced mysteriously in Salt Lake City on a desk at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Dubbed the Mormon will, the document bequeathed his fortune to an improbable collection of institutions and individuals, including a Utah gas station attendant, Melvin Dummar, who claimed that he had once given Hughes a ride to Las Vegas...
Though the will contained misspellings and references atypical of the reclusive billionaire, onetime Hughes lieutenant Noah Dietrich, who was designated the estate's executor by the Mormon will, pressed the case. He engaged Los Angeles Attorney Harold Rhoden, who lined up several handwriting experts. All testified that the will was written by Hughes...
Peterson is a practicing Mormon but he said that his religion is not a major factor in his decision. "It's more challenging in some ways to be a Mormon in Cambridge," he said. He added that the return to Utah is, in a sense, a "return to my 'roots...
MARRIED. Donny Osmond, 20, third youngest of the seven singing Osmonds and TV co-star with sister Marie; and Debra Glenn, 19, a Brigham Young University freshman, who met Donny on a double date; in Salt Lake City's Mormon temple...