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September Storm (20th Century-Fox) will soon blow over, but while it lasts the public is invited to contemplate-along with Mark Stevens, Joanne Dru, a wicked-looking foam-rubber shark and a fishily familiar search for sunken treasure -a cinematic curiosity: the first 3-D picture Hollywood has released in five years...
Comfort & Courage. Divorced by Josephine Dillon in 1930, he married Maria (Rhea) Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham, a Houston socialite whose first marriage had occurred before Gable was born: despite his obvious virility, he apparently needed the comfort and security provided by older women. The first Mrs. Gable is now 76, lives alone in Hollywood with her chihuahua, and provided a startling contrast last week when, white-haired and frail, she was photographed looking at a picture of her young husband of years ago. Rhea, now 70, lives alone in Houston...
...founder, grandson of the prophet's martyred brother Hyrum, son of former Mormon President Joseph F. Smith, and himself senior member of the Council of the Twelve (the group of elders who are the spiritual and administrative leaders of the church). Traveling through southern Brazil on the first leg of an inspection tour of Mormon missions in five Latin American countries, Smith could be well satisfied with what he saw. Working without pay and under primitive conditions, Brazil's 267 Mormon missionaries have won 30,000 converts, expect to baptize 2,000 more within the next six months...
With Smiles & Songs. After the Mormons finally agreed to stop multiple marriages, Utah was admitted into the Union in 1896. Despite the limitations of monogamy, Smith has a sizable Mormon brood: eleven children, 54 grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren. His third wife, Jessie (the first two died), is a soloist in the famed Mormon Tabernacle Choir. All the family adhere strictly to the Mormon regime of no coffee, tea or alcoholic beverage. One Brazilian jovially complained to Elder Smith last week: "The danger to the world today is not Communism, but Mormonism. You people work fast in our country with smiles...
...Center for Advanced Study to bring together scholars, officials, politicians, businessmen and journalists-all of them sorely in need of a chance to see the forest for the trees. Under a plan costing $13 million in all, Brookings aims to create Washington's first real Delphi-a place for probing the hidden patterns of modern society and assuring the "intellectual preparedness" of key Americans...