Word: vernon
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...Died. Vernon Carl Walston, 58, founder (in 1932) and president of Wall Street's Walston & Co., one of the nation's top ten stockbrokers; by his own hand (20-gauge shotgun); in Manhattan. A moody, drivingly ambitious onetime fruit vendor, Walston started the firm in San Francisco under the aegis of Barik of America Founder A. P. Giannini, moved to New York in 1958, where he built up to assets of $151 million, with 90 offices from Honolulu to Switzerland. His one and great pleasure was going on African safari, from which he returned to decorate his office...
Serious Theology. It was Asbury's stern belief that "the saddlebags are the best schooling for traveling preachers." Today, says the Rev. Walter Vernon of the church's Board of Education, Methodism is "taking theology more seriously." The Methodists have no Tillich or Barth, but they have seldom before had so many competent and respected thinkers to boast about. Among them: Ecumenist Albert Outler, a Methodist observer at the Vatican Council last year, and radical young (37) Systematic Theologian Schubert Ogden...
...chance, a Roman Catholic walked into Sunday worship at the Church of the Divine Wisdom in Mount Vernon, N.Y., he would feel right at home. The priest at the altar would be wearing alb, chasuble, maniple and stole, the familiar Eucharistic vestments of the Western church; the liturgy he celebrated, except for the use of English instead of Latin, would be almost identical with the Roman Mass. But the worshippers at the church are not Roman Catholics, or even High-Church Anglicans; they are members of the little-known Western Rite of the Orthodox Church...
...brother J. Noel, 64, the Westchester group has developed into a journalistic property that attracted many bidders. After inheriting the nucleus of the chain and $30 million from their father in 1930, the two Macys spread their enterprise over such well-fixed Westchester communities as Tarrytown, Mamaroneck, Mount Vernon and New Rochelle. The chain's 175,000 circulation is a useful addition to the Gannett fold. But the major beneficiaries are likely to be suburbanites in Westchester, where the caliber of the local journalism can only improve...
...habits. Since Nov. 22 he has worshiped at: Washington's National City Christian Church; the Harriet Chapel, a little Methodist church near Camp David, Md.; St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Washington; St. John's Episcopal Church, on Lafayette Square across from the White House; Mt. Vernon Place Methodist Church in Washington; and St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Fredericksburg, Texas, an old log cabin that can seat 30 people on a busy Sunday...