Word: geoffrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chapters in its 179-year history. Under Editor John Thadeus Delane (1841-77), Prime Ministers had good reason to feel they had the Times tucked into their pockets. When World War II loomed, the Times obediently joined Whitehall's chorus of appeasement. "I did my utmost," said Editor Geoffrey Dawson of Hitler and his crew, "to keep out of the paper anything that might hurt their susceptibilities...
...remaining three are recruits from last year's JV's: junior Bob Whitney at seven, senior Ed Quattlebaum at three, and junior Geoffrey Gratwick at two. Senior Ted Washburn is in his second year as coxswain. Parker plans to stay with this combination for a while...
Kirchner really triumphed, however, in conducting Les Noces. In addition to a select chorus of Harvard and Radcliffe singers, he had an expert solo vocal quartet--Beverly Sills, Eunice Alberts, James Miller, and John--and an extraordinarily impressive team of pianists: Luise Vosgerchian, Laurence Berman, Ursula Oppens, and Geoffrey Hellman. Together, they solved the problems of Les Noces, which are primarily rhythmical...
...where the fire apparently had started. And by now, the flames had burned their way through the floor. So thick was the smoke that Passenger George Chapman was forced to grab a gas mask as he tried to force his way below to his sleeping three-year-old son Geoffrey. "I thought if I had to die, I wanted to die with our baby," Chapman says. "Halfway down, I saw an engineer coming up through the smoke with Geoffrey in his arms. That man saved his life...
...position, he says, is "unemployed parson" and thus he has more time for travel. So Lord Geoffrey Fisher, 76, retired Archbishop of Canterbury, flew into Sydney with his wife to visit their son. "We've come to Australia to see him and his wife before they've forgotten they're both English," he explained. As for the rest of his time since retiring, Lord Fisher has been doing what he likes-"going to schools and universities to give talks and be heckled...