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Theodore Wedel, wife of the new president of the House of Deputies: "We Episcopalians will grow up eventually." At other meetings throughout the week, the delegates: Heard an opening sermon in Boston's Old North Church by the world's No. 1 Anglican, Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury. Warned Dr. Fisher, making a rare appearance on television:*"The essentially Christian virtues of moderation and toleration are assailed by extremisms and fanaticism all over the world, by doctrines of 'apartheid,' by demands that 'what we want is therefore our right, and we must have...
...Geoffrey de Havilland may have passed Mach i in 1946, but his plane went to pieces and he was killed (TIME, Oct. 7, 1946). The first man to break through the sonic wall in level flight: the U.S. Air Force's Captain "Chuck" Yeager, on Oct. 14, 1947, in his rocket-powered Xi. *A wing whose thickness is small compared with its breadth from leading edge to trailing edge is "thin" aerodynamically, though its actual thickness may be large...
...Geoffrey de Havilland, Rickenbacker's challenge posed a tough problem. Sir Geoffrey has been complaining that he would need an order at least that big to justify the expansion necessary to put Comets into volume production (current production: one a month). But Rickenbacker's time limit was hard for the leisurely Britons to meet ("Really now," commented one British aircraft builder, "you cannot suddenly swell an industry to twice its size, you know"). De Havilland's bosses promised Rickenbacker a firm answer within a week...
...Geoffrey Francis Fisher is a deeply pious Christian. He is also a gentleman of rational disposition, settled habits and scholarly inclinations. This blending, perhaps more frequently found in the British Isles than elsewhere, has made him just about the ideal man for his job: 99th Archbishop of Canterbury,* Primate of All England and the active spiritual head of the Anglican communion...
Central Churchmanship. Geoffrey Fisher's father was a country vicar in Warwickshire; so was his father before him. Geoffrey grew up in the calm Christianity of the family parsonage, and never forgot it. After a brilliant record at Exeter College, Oxford (where he was a crack lightweight oarsman), he turned to the church. He was ordained in 1911. Three years later, at 27, he was appointed headmaster of Repton School...