Word: geoffrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might be expected, the Archbishop of Canterbury is against sin, but he is against it in a special way. Last week Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher added his voice to the growing body of British opinion in favor of the Wolfenden Report (TIME, Sept. 16), which recommended that 1) homosexuality between consenting adults no longer be considered a crime, and 2) that since little could be done about the prostitutes that swarm over London, perhaps their fines should be increased to ?10 ($28) for a first offense. Dr. Fisher's reason for giving the report his qualified endorsement: he approves...
...themselves, at first sought to minimize its misgivings (TIME, Sept. 2). What particularly raised British hackles was an awareness that actions in Accra were not just the doing of a headstrong Nkrumah but were shrewdly encouraged by a white eminence, Ghana's recently appointed Attorney General, Ulster-born Geoffrey Bing...
...GEOFFREY SKILLMAN...
...feted in June, when the weather is good) by reviewing the Irish Guards at the annual Trooping of the Color. The same day she announced her birthday honors list. New peers: Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank, Sir Horace Evans, the Queen's physician, and Lieut. General Sir Willoughy Norrie. Geoffrey Crowther, editor emeritus of the prestigious weekly The Economist, and Oxford's Isaiah Berlin were knighted, and peppery old (78) Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham became a Companion of Honour...
...GEOFFREY H. LANE Sarnia...