In 1951, shortly before Neville and his wife sailed for Barbados, his brother-in-law Sam (married to his wife's sister) came to him with an urgent problem connected to his banking career. Sam, a Harvard Business School graduate, was head usher and a financial-board member at the Church of the Ascension on Fifth Avenue, but could not find satisfying guidance from his own minister and turned to Neville instead the evening before their trip.
Date (happened)
1951
conclusion
Why
dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
Reasoning
1 claim, no conflict: 1951 (passage:539361).
1951
stated · preferred
Reasoning
Neville opens the story by directly stating the year: 'The year is 1951.' He places it shortly before he and his wife sailed for Barbados, which agrees internally with the rest of the passage's narrative sequence.
Told / reported
6 January 1969
conclusion · probable
Why
dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
Reasoning
1 claim, no conflict: 1969-01-06 (node:1412).
6 January 1969
estimated · probable
Why
No conflict here — catalog claim (#506) and the newspaper-ad claim (media:757) agree on 1969-01-06; non-catalog source used anyway per lane convention.
Reasoning
The witness passage is in lecture nid 1412, dated 1969-01-06 by both a legacy catalog claim (certain, under-review catalogue block) and an independently-sourced newspaper advertisement (probable, verified) that agree exactly. Per lane guidance the non-catalog claim is preferred as the basis even where the two agree, so the told claim inherits the ad-sourced precision/confidence (estimated/probable) rather than the catalog's certain.