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Married. Diane Dow Buchanan, 21, daughter of former U.S. Chief of Protocol (1957-61) Wiley T. Buchanan and great-granddaughter of the founder of Dow Chemical Co.; and John Traina Jr., 33, American President shipping line manager; in a Methodist ceremony boycotted by her father, who disapproves of the match; in Washington...
Three generations of Akers' forebears were Methodist ministers; he was a preacher only at heart. After his stint on the Post-Dispatch, he became a political reporter in Springfield, later moved up to Chicago for the A. P. during gang-war days. In 1937, Akers took a fling at politics himself and wound up as an assistant to Interior Secretary Harold Ickes. But he soon beat a hasty retreat. "Anybody who leaves the newspaper business for a political job," he says now, "is kind of silly...
...SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY...
...right to worship freely. Until 1848, the 35,000 Waldensians-descendants of a breakaway Catholic sect that was excommunicated in 1184, and turned Protestant in the 16th century-were forbidden to attend universities, practice law or medicine, or open new churches. The unification of Italy brought an invasion of Methodist and Baptist missionaries from Britain and the U.S., but Mussolini's 1929 agreement with the Vatican made Catholicism the state church, and Fascist laws strictly curtailed Protestants...
...Post-Op. Houston's normally seething traffic is mercifully light when DeBakey takes off for Methodist Hospital in his Alfa Romeo Sprint (a gift from a grateful Italian patient) at an unpredictable speed and in no particular gear. A man who never walks if he can drive, he gets his exercise by refusing to wait for elevators. He lopes up and down stairs and covers the hospital's labyrinthine corridors at a brisk pace. Professor DeBakey has a handsome, spacious, blue-carpeted office in Baylor's College of Medicine, and rarely uses it. In Methodist Hospital, Surgeon...