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...Music Room of Buckingham Palace, Dr. Geoffrey F. Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, using water from the River Jordan, baptized lace-robed Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward, the seven-week-old baby who stands second in line of succession to the British throne. Before the royal family and 60 guests, the archbishop turned to Prince Andrew's five godparents, including the Duke of Gloucester and Princess Alexandra, and intoned: "Dost thou, in the name of this child, renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all the covetous desires of the same...
Except for such dim traces, Dilmun vanished centuries ago. But just after World War II, a scholarly young Englishman, Geoffrey Bibby, visited Bahrein on oil business, and was fascinated by 100,000 burial mounds on the island's north end. Under them were T-shaped stone chambers with the remains of a single person in each. Before he could investigate further, Bibby left Bahrein. Later he married a Danish girl, settled in Denmark, and worked his way up to the post of director of oriental antiquities in Aarhus University's prehistoric museum...
...seller: the great-great-great-grandson of the Andrews couple, who posed under a tree that is still alive. The ostensible buyer: Dealer Geoffrey Agnew, but U.S. Oilman Paul Getty hovered at Agnew's side, looking grimly determined...
...TWIST OF SAND, by Geoffrey Jenkins (276 pp.; Viking; $3.95), proves once again that a proper adventure story translates the reader instantly from a world that is merely actual-represented by thinning hair and thickening wife-to one that is gloriously real. This putative planet, circumnavigated by Author Jenkins' sea thriller, is the realm of the dead mariner's cryptic map, the deathbed revelation cut off in mid-gargle, the implacable enemy, and the beautiful girl scientist who carries on the quest that killed her father. The story's hero has the sort of face that...
...Economist's influence stems from a journalistic ideal, first defined in 1843 by its creator, a liberal London banker named James Wilson, and restated a century later by Sir Geoffrey Crowther, editor from 1938 to 1956. The Economist's creed: "To hold opinions, to hold them strongly and if need be to express them strongly, but to have as few prejudices as possible." Following that creed, the Economist tries to be passionately nonpartisan on parties, passionately partisan on issues. Founding Editor Wilson argued spiritedly for free trade, and his successors have pounded relentlessly against import quotas...