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...majority are their baby-boomer parents, taking stock of the past as they swing around to look into the fog of the future. "You peel off life's accessories and come in nakedness before the Lord, asking 'What do I do with my life?'" says Father Tom Gedeon of Notre Dame's Retreat International association, explaining the appeal of retreats. But isn't this just the latest fad of the Me generation? Twig Branch, 42, a Presbyterian insurance agent based in Charlotte, N.C., who first attended the Abbey of the Genesee last November, disagrees. "First of all," he says, "unlike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Thee To a Monastery | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

...area has its own history of brutality and violence. Near the foot of 46th Street, Nathan Hale was executed in 1776. In more recent years there have been less heroic deaths: the Veronica Gedeon murder, the Titterton and Lonergan killings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: First Avenue, New York | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...exceptions missed by the Tribune in its head-down dash through history: 1) the Lindbergh kidnapping case, where Bruno Richard Hauptmann was named before confession or indictment; 2) the murder of Manhattan Model Veronica Gedeon by Robert Irwin; 3) many another murder where witnesses have been able to name the killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: If the Trib Says So | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...since the Easter Sunday (1937) murder of Model Veronica Gedeon had Manhattan newsmen had a really good chance to indulge in boob-catching antics like diagrams with X's marking spots. This one looked as if it would back the Gedeon killing on to the trash pile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Murder at Retail | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...pontiff is rawboned, militant "Judge" Joseph Frederick Rutherford, 70, who in 1896 accompanied William Jennings Bryan on his first Presidential campaign, who in 1930 startled the U. S. by deeding a California house, garage and two automobiles, in perpetuity, to await the reappearance on earth of King David, Gedeon, Barak. Samson and other Biblical worthies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Witnesses Examined | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

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