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...most dynamic congregations in Christendom. As a boy, Smith's father followed Brigham Young across the plains, traveling in a covered wagon with his mother, widowed when a mob lynched her husband. Growing up near the Great Salt Lake, he had five wives and 42 children; his tenth son was Joseph Fielding Smith, who recalls: "I called my mother 'Mom' and my father's other wives 'Aunt.' They each had their own house and lived separately. The Lord had commanded us to have plural marriages; they were needed because we had lost so many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Senior Apostle | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

...Washington State's McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary, finishing a five-year term for mail theft and forgery. Stilling its doubts, Stanford took Strucinski, who came highly recommended not only by an Atlantic editor but also by the warden at McNeil. Last week, when police arrested Strucinski for the tenth time in his life, Stanford realized that the opportunity it gave Student Strucinski had indeed broadened his talents-but not for writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Writer with a Talent | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

...unandmous" satisfaction prevails among the inhabitants of the Leverett Towers prompts me to offer a few words on recent Harvard architecture, and on the expansion of the college. I connect these two subjects because it would seem that "Towerism" is to be a vehicle for expansion, even if the tenth House, and others which appear to be forthcoming, are not constructed precisely like the Towers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BIRTH OF A GIANT | 11/26/1960 | See Source »

Although most of the Masters favor the construction of a tenth House, they hold varying views of the ideal form for it. Pointing to the general need for further deconversion, several consider an additional House not merely desirable but necessary. They differ, however, as to size and most suitable architectural style...

Author: By William D. Phelan jr., | Title: Masters Present Diverse Views On Size, Style for Tenth House | 11/22/1960 | See Source »

...addition, Finley protested the effect of such building as Leverett Towers on the Harvard skyline. He noted, however, that completion of the medical center and of a tall tenth House next to Eliot might possibly counterbalance the Towers...

Author: By William D. Phelan jr., | Title: Masters Present Diverse Views On Size, Style for Tenth House | 11/22/1960 | See Source »

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