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Died. Henry Dinwoodey Moyle, 74, Salt Lake City millionaire and (since 1961) second-ranking officer of the 2,000,000-member Mormon Church, who sold his own oil company in 1947 to help administer the Latter-day Saints' formidable commercial empire, urging it to expand out of Utah into cattle ranches in Florida, Texas, Canada and Australia, choice Manhattan, London and Berlin real estate; of a heart attack; in Deer Park...
...well-to-do Mormon bishop bought Breedlove an airplane jet engine. Designers helped him with problems of aerodynamics. He drew up a brochure, built a tiny-scale model of his car, went in search of sponsors. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. donated the special tires he needed, and Shell Oil Co. agreed to pick up the rest of the bill. "He's a remarkable salesman," said one Shell executive. Shell's contribution came to about...
During the long and uncertain trek westward over the plains in 1847, Brigham Young's Mormon pioneers obeyed this admonition, never beginning a day without a song or meeting the night without a hymn of thanks. So ingrained did the joyful habit of singing become that Young founded a choir at journey's end. This week the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, having long since won world renown, starts its 35th year of radio broadcasting-the longest sustained network program in history...
Polyphony, Not Polygamy. The program and the choir were never-and are not-intended to proselytize. In fact, the word Mormon is mentioned only twice in each show, and then only in the name of the choir. "The aim of the broadcasts was and is intended to achieve a universality," says Apostle Richard L. Evans, who for 33 years has supplied the spoken word. His sermonettes heard with the choir contain no doctrine of the Latter-day Saints, in stead deal with Christian ethics. "Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin...
...choir sings Mormon hymns no more often than Catholic or Protestant ones. But Mormon President David McKay called the choir's general effect "inestimable" in helping 13,000 Mormon missionaries over the world bring in multitudes of converts (100,000 last year) to a church once only known and derided for its long-banned polygamy. "The choir makes friends and opens doors," says Richard Condie, 65, choirmaster since 1957 and a professor of music at the University of Utah. He directs 375 singers, divided into four-part men's and four-part women's choruses. All members...