Roland Gammon was a noted American writer

Writer

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. A native of Caribou, Maine

Caribou, Maine

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, he graduated from Colby College

Colby College

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 and then studied at Oxford University. He served with the Air Corps in World War II

World War II

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 and then became a reporter for Time-Life

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In the 1950's, Gammon was part of a publicity team in mid-town Manhattan

Manhattan

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, whose clients included Sen. John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

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In the 1960's, Gammon devoted increasing amounts of time to writing, resulting in five books on religion: "Nirvana Now," "Believers Are Brothers," "Truth Is One," "Faith Is a Star" and "A God For Modern Man." He was president of World Authors Ltd. and Editorial Communications Inc. He was also past president of the Universalist Church in New York City

New York City

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 and dean of its all-faith chapel. Notable contacts in Gammon's life as a writer included Walt Disney

Walt Disney

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 and Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer OM was a German theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary. He was born in Kaysersberg in the province of Alsace-Lorraine, at that time part of the German Empire...

, who wrote a paper with Gammon just weeks before his death in 1965. http://home.pcisys.net/~jnf/mdnstory.html

(Some of the above text taken from the New York Times obituary of Gammon in 1981:) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803E5D91E26E232BC4C53DFB76E958A