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GARY M. CLASSMAN Mount Vernon...
...Atlanta in the first public-housing project for blacks, earned a law degree, ran the Southern Regional Council's Voter-Education Project and was the highly successful head of the United Negro College Fund. While Jordan was with the fund, Young asked him to become his assistant. Vernon replied that he would not become anyone's deputy. Said Young: "The only other job for you here is mine, and it's not vacant...
...while in adolescence. Marjoe's father left home, and from that point on, the story becomes Rashomonesque. Marjoe says that he left home too, at 14, and picked up with an older woman who acted both as a surrogate mother and lover; Marjoe's father Vernon claims that Marjoe was still living with his real mother. Then Marjoe married, fathered a daughter, now eleven, and drifted through a series of fit-and-start careers. The movie does not mention the marriage, which ended in divorce in 1968. There is a California warrant still open for Marjoe...
...Vernon E. Jordan Jr., LL.D., executive director of the National Urban League...
California's peregrine falcons are rarer than giant condors. Only about a dozen of them have been sighted in the whole state. So when two fledglings hatched in a nest near the top of a sheer, 580-ft. rock on Morro Bay, neighborhood Bird Watchers Vernon Davy and his wife organized a round-the-clock vigil. But falconers, who want the birds for hunting, were also on the alert...