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Robert B. McNeill was on the way through law school at the University of Alabama when he switched to Richmond's Union Theological Seminary. But for Alabama-born Seminarian McNeill, the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth had separate entrances marked WHITE and COLORED; as a member of the basketball team he refused to play against Richmond's Negro College, Virginia Union, and at an inter-seminary conference he balked at sitting down to lunch with the Negro delegates...
Imperative Demand. Two years ago, McNeill upset some 50 members of his influential, 1,200-member First Presbyterian Church by writing a magazine article calling for "creative contact" between whites and Negroes in the South-"representation of both groups on city councils, grand juries, school boards, medical societies, ministerial associations and other public agencies." Fortnight ago, he wrote a note in the church bulletin urging parishioners to read without prejudgment an article by a Columbus newspaperman saying how much better the racial situation had become in Columbus...
Last week, after 44-year-old Presbyterian McNeill had finished his Sunday sermon, the Rev. Frank C. King of Valdosta, Ga. rose to read the decision of a commission appointed by the Presbytery of Southwest Georgia to study reports of dissension within Pastor McNeill's church. The decision : Robert McNeill must go: "The interests of religion imperatively demand...
...pace of U.S. business picks up, so does the demand for money. Last week bankers indicated they expect a rise soon in the discount rate, now 2½%, as well as a corresponding hike in the prime rates. Said Hanover Bank's President R. E. McNeill Jr.: "I would not be surprised to see an increase in the discount rate. There is a high level of business, inventories are down, money is fairly tight, and banks are well invested." With higher rates ahead, U.S. bonds had another sinking spell last week, reached the lowest level in years; many Treasury...
Building further their brothers-under-the-greenbacks camaraderie, ardent Art Fancier Averell Harriman, Democratic Governor of New York, offered to Republican Governor-elect Nelson Rockefeller, an art lover even more ardent, a token of no hard feelings: the loan of eight etchings and two oils by James Abbott McNeill Whistler and one oil by John Singer Sargent for Rockefeller's use in the executive mansion...