Already in 1973 First Chicago Bank had identified Sears as its real competitor. Citicorp CEO Walter Wriston reached the same conclusion later in the 1970s.

By 1984, however, Walter Wriston concluded “ the bank of the future already exists, and it ’ s called Merrill Lynch .” In 1986 when major bank holding companies threatened to stop operating commercial banks in order to obtain the “ competitive advantages ” enjoyed by Sears and Merrill Lynch, FDIC Chairman William Seidman warned that could create “ chaos .”

Banking regulators and commentators debated whether “ firewalls ” could truly separate a bank from its affiliate in a crisis and often cited the early 1980s ’ statement by then Citicorp CEO Walter Wriston that “ it is inconceivable that any major bank would walk away from any subsidiary of its holding company .” Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker testified to Congress that firewalls so strong that they truly separated different businesses would eliminate the benefits of combining the two activities.

In 1976, under the leadership of CEO Walter B. Wriston, First National City Bank ( and its holding company First National City Corporation ) was renamed Citibank, N. A.

The Wriston Lecture series, established in 1987 in honor of Walter B. Wriston, seeks " to inform and enrich intellectual debate surrounding the great public issues of our day, and to recognize individuals whose ideas or accomplishments have left a mark on their world ".

( Under each of his successors, the bank's name has changed: George Moore shortened it to " First National City Bank " and formed a holding company, First National City Corp .; under Walter B. Wriston these became " Citibank " and " Citicorp "; under John Reed the firm merged with Travelers Group to become Citigroup.

* 2003 – Walter B. Wriston Lecture Award, The Manhattan Institute

; human rights leaders Harry Wu, Desmond Tutu, and Elena Bonner ; scientists Bruce Ames, John Christy, and Charles Townes ; judges Vaughn Walker and James P. Gray ; journalists Alexander Cockburn, John Stossel, Bill Kurtis ; business leaders David Packard, John Templeton, Robert Galvin, and Walter B. Wriston.

Walter Bigelow Wriston ( August 3, 1919 – January 19, 2005 ) was a banker and former chairman and CEO of Citicorp.

In 1942, Walter Wriston married Barbara Brengle, with whom he had one daughter.

( Discovery )-- Walter B. Wriston

* Walter B. Wriston Archives at Tufts University

As chief executive of Citibank / Citicorp ( later Citigroup ) from 1967 to 1984, Wriston was widely regarded as the single most influential commercial banker of his time.

" With then New York Governor Hugh Carey and investment banker Felix Rohatyn, Wriston helped save New York City from bankruptcy in the mid-1970s by setting up the Financial Control Board and the Municipal Assistance Corporation, and persuading the city's union pension funds and banks to buy the latter corporation's bonds.

His honors and awards include the Distinguished Public Service Award of the Boston Bar Association, 1994 ; an honorary degree from Bowdoin College, 1993 ; selection as a Citicorp / Wriston Fellow for Economic Research, 1988 ; and the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the National Tax Association, 1985.

Wriston was born in Middletown, Connecticut to Ruth Bigelow Wriston, a chemistry teacher, and Henry Wriston, a history professor at Wesleyan University who was later president of Lawrence College and Brown University.

Wriston attended grade school and high school in Appleton, Wisconsin.

Wriston was an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.

* LaFeber, Walter, " The Rise and Fall of Colin Powell and the Powell Doctrine ," Political Science Quarterly, 124 ( Spring 2009 ), 71 – 93.

Historically, one of the most important protagonists of the movement was Walter Martin ( 1928 – 89 ), whose numerous books include the 1955 The Rise of the Cults: An Introductory Guide to the Non-Christian Cults and the 1965 The Kingdom of the Cults: An Analysis of Major Cult Systems in the Present Christian Era, which continues to be influential.

* Walter Laqueur, Black Hundreds: the Rise of the Extreme Right in Russia, New York: HarperCollins, 1993

The expression " cult apologist " was used in a different manner than its current usage by the evangelical Christian countercult movement writer Walter Martin in 1955, in Martin's Christian handbook The Rise of the Cults.

* Walter Jon Williams-Dread Empire's Fall

* Laredo, a fictional planet colonised by Hispanic people, in the Dread Empire's Fall series by Walter Jon Williams

* Frieburger, William, " James Ellroy, Walter Mosley, and the Politics of the Los Angeles Crime Novel ", in Clues: A Journal of Detection 17 ( Fall – Winter 1996 ): 87 – 104.

* Zenith, the currency used in the universe of Walter Jon Williams ' " Dread Empire's Fall " series

" Fall Again " was originally written by Walter Afanasieff and Robin Thicke for Michael Jackson's Invincible album to compose, but did not make it on the track list.

`` His address '', Walter added, `` is that great foundling home, the American Express.

From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.

Walter Reuther, leader of the industrial union faction of the AFL-CIO, says another two years of this squabbling will be disastrous for all American labor.

Gershwin did not particularly like Walter Damrosch's interpretation at the world premiere of An American in Paris.

* 1886 – Walter Edward Dandy, American neurosurgeon and scientist ( d. 1946 )

* 1914 – Big Walter Price, American singer-songwriter and pianist ( d. 2012 )

* 1910 – Walter Scharf, American composer ( d. 2003 )

* 1909 – Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American novelist ( d. 1971 )

* 1963 – Lisa Ann Walter, American actress

* 1937 – Walter Dean Myers, American novelist and poet

* 1915 – Walter Trampler, American violist ( d. 1997 )

* 1875 – Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer ( d. 1940 )

* 2011 – Walter Breuning, American super-centenarian ( b. 1896 )

Canberra is a planned city that was originally designed by Walter Burley Griffin, a major 20th century American architect.

* 1968 – Walter Tewksbury, American athlete ( b. 1876 )

* 1859 – Walter Camp, American football player, coach, and writer ( d. 1925 )

* 1897 – Walter Winchell, American broadcaster and journalist ( d. 1972 )

* 1950 – Walter Huston, Canadian-born American actor ( b. 1884 )

" To Walter Isaacson, this makes Franklin " the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become.

In the 1920s, the American geologist Walter H. Bucher studied a number of sites now recognized as impact craters in the USA.

Boveri influenced two generations of American cytologists: Edmund Beecher Wilson, Walter Sutton and Theophilus Painter were all influenced by Boveri ( Wilson and Painter actually worked with him ).

Walter Camp, the " Father of American Football ", pictured here in 1878 as the captain of the Yale Football team

Walter Camp, known as the " Father of American Football ", is credited with changing the game from a variation of rugby into a unique sport.

The Walter O. Evans collection of African American art.

" Other notable writers who have explored regional and ethnic communities in their detective novels are Harry Kemelman, whose Rabbi Small series were set the Conservative Jewish community of Massachusetts ; Walter Mosley, whose Easy Rawlins books are set in the African American community of 1950s Los Angeles ; and Sara Paretsky, whose V. I. Warshawski books have explored the various subcultures of Chicago.