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...London last week, the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, was making a speech to his bishops and clergy. In the rich voice with which he dominated the radiocast of the coronation, the archbishop was ranging through the state of Christianity around the world when ears suddenly pricked to what sounded like fighting words-not against enemies of religion but against the Roman Catholic Church...
...World Conference on Medical Education, meeting in London, heard an eminent British neurosurgeon, Sir Geoffrey Jefferson, denounce the practice of having medical students sit in the gallery watching operation after operation. "A shocking waste of time," said Sir Geoffrey. "They would be much better employed in the wards." Besides, said Sir Geoffrey, too many surgeons wax theatrical before a student audience, "give tongue only to reprimands or agonized cries about the incompetence of their assistants . . . This is often good entertainment, [but it is] a bad example to their juniors who may come to believe that bluster and theatrical imbecilities...
When should a newspaper print profanity? For 125 years the answer of the Montgomery Advertiser (circ. 56,266) had been: never. But when Alabama's Governor Gordon Persons publicly and profanely denounced the Advertiser's Political Writer Geoffrey Birt, it seemed to Editor Grover C. Hall Jr. that it was time for a change. For the first time, the Advertiser printed the words "son of a bitch" -and waited for a storm of protest from its readers. By last week the storm signals were down. Only five readers had written in, three of them criticizing the governor...
WESTWARD THE SUN (287 pp.)-Geoffrey Cotterell-Lippincott...
British readers take to 33-year-old Geoffrey Cotterell's novels as naturally as U.S. movie addicts to popcorn. His five novels have sold a tidy 80,000 copies, and four of them have been British book-club choices. Well buttered with stock situations and salted with everyday speech, the Cotterell brand of popcorn is easy to munch but slim fare as a literary meal. Strait and Narrow, his first novel to be published in the U.S., was about a go-getting young Briton whose law career rose almost as fast as his character dropped. In Westward...