Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unchallenged will was found immediately after Hughes' death, his cousin William Rice Lummis was appointed temporary co-adrninistrator of the estate, while local law firms handle Hughes affairs in the four geographical areas where his assets are concentrated. But three weeks after his death, a so-called Mormon will mysteriously turned up at a church office building in Salt Lake City, making bequests to the Mormons, various worthy institutions and a gas-station attendant, Melvin Dummar. It also named Hughes' estranged aide Noah Dietrich as executor. Trial on the authenticity of the will is scheduled to begin...
...college and a sense of how the financial system works, and you get success." In his case, that has meant a 15-acre estate atop San Francisco Bay, a 41-ft. sailboat named, of course, Pong, a Lake Tahoe ski cabin and a Mercedes 450 SL. A former Mormon who has been divorced since 1973, Bushnell admits to "liking girls." Says he: "I find I have phone numbers in a lot of cities." King Pong hopes ultimately to work for the Government in such areas as energy...
...manic exuberance. In part three (1820-1860), David Brion Davis by contrast manages to make the often opaque character of Ralph Waldo Emerson both fascinating and comprehensible. Davis, who won his Pulitzer for The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, also offers a splendid essay on the Mormon experience as a paradigm of American dissent: a people at odds with society while yearning to be part...
Engaged. E.J. ("Jake") Garn, 44, Republican Senator from Utah; and Kathleen Brewerton Bingham, 27, former wife of the Senator's administrative assistant. Garn's first wife Hazel died in an automobile accident in August; he and Bingham will wed on April 8 at the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City...
...With names of ancestors, and towns, counties and states where they lived, visit the nearest of more than 20 genealogy libraries maintained by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). The branch can draw on resources of the central Mormon library in Salt Lake City, which has the world's largest repository of family genealogical information (on microfilm alone it has the equivalent of 4.3 million 300-page printed volumes). Its resources are open to non-Mormons and Mormons alike...