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Editor today, and largely responsible for the Economist's prestige, is plump, affable Geoffrey Crowther, 36, who studied at Cambridge, at Yale on a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship (Rhodes scholarship in reverse), then at New York's Columbia University. In the U.S. he acquired, besides an education, a wife. He worked in Wall Street (as a messenger for J. W. Seligman Co.), returned to London in 1932 to join the Economist. He became editor in 1938, when...
...made them coo and baa like fatuous old uncles. "Lunching with her," sighed Thornton Delehanty, "is like sitting down to an hour or so of conversation with a charming and highly intelligent orchid." An A.P. feature writer uttered the glad cry, "As unspoiled as a fresh Swedish snowfall." Bosley Crowther in the Times, after some startling lyricism involving a Viking's sweetheart, Ivory Soap, peaches, cream and Dresden china, concluded: "This reporter would like to go on record that he has never met a star who compares...
...best advice came from Geoffrey Crowther, editor of the London Economist. Said he: "None of these differences are vital. . . . The next stage is to put the two plans alongside each other, and work out a United Nations plan...
...prominent figures of the motion picture industry will speak on the problems of war facing people in the arts, especially the films. Melvyn Douglas will represent the actors. Garson Kauin the film directors, and Richard Ford director of the British Library of information will speak in place of Bosley Crowther New York "Times" critic...
Leading the roster will be Melvyn Douglas, well-known star of sophisticated cafe society comedy films. Representing the directors will be Garson Kanin, who was the brains behind the filming of "The Male Animal," and Rosely Crowther, of the New York, Times, will talk for the critics...