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...This year he shelled out some money of his own for campaign expenses. And while he takes a very hard attitude on federal welfare handouts, Barry himself is "an easy touch," says a bank officer. His contributions to such philanthropies as Trinity Cathedral in Phoenix, Washington's Mount Vernon Seminary girls' school and the United Fund last year ran to nearly $25,000-most of it in stock. As a result, the Goldwaters find themselves digging into their capital...
Lloyd S. Michael talks reluctantly about his personal background--his Mt. Vernon, Ohio birthplace, and the chronology of his rise to the superintendency of Illinois' Evanston Township High School. But, when the conversation turns to the present problems of education, Michael slowly smooths his white hair and speaks with great deliberation, pondering aloud the complexities of educational policy...
Married. Kim Stanley, 39, Broadway actress (The Three Sisters); and Joseph Siegel, 35, her lawyer, the man who indulges Kim by insisting on stage contracts of no longer than nine months ("After that," she claims, "it sounds like a recording to me"); she for the fourth time; in Mount Vernon...
...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...