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...thought him mighty civil and handsome. No other living Asian leader, with the exception of Chiang Kaishek, has fought so doggedly for his country's aspirations. He is not the kind of man who invites a slap on the back and a friendly "Hi, Pandit" (which, according to Geoffrey Gorer, a studious misinterpreter of U.S. folkways, is the only basis on which Americans really like anybody). Nehru has said of himself that he failed to identify himself with the unending procession of humanity, "and then I would separate myself and, as from a hilltop, apart, look down...
...thousand miles of open sea is a long way to go in a 49-foot boat, but P. Geoffrey DeSa 2B plans to sail that far in the course of a 15-month land and sea trip from Cambridge to his home in Somerset, England...
...lend-lease plan under which McHale worked began as an idea of T. S. Matthews, editor of TIME. In London one day last spring, Matthews had a talk with Geoffrey Crowther, editor of the Economist. Crowther agreed to give one of our writers "house room," but modestly insisted that he saw no way in which TIME would benefit. Matthews replied that he'd take the chance. So began McHale's tour of duty on the 117-year-old British publication...
STRAIT AND NARROW (384 pp.)-Geoffrey Cotterell-Lippincott...
Even in England, the enthusiasm for Jocelyn Brooke and his metaphysical puzzlers (See above) is pretty much restricted to the critics and the advance guard. The ordinary armchair Englishman is far more likely to prefer Geoffrey Cotterell. There are no great puzzles in Cotterell. A 31-year-old middle-class Englishman, Cotterell writes about other middle-class Englishmen in a manner designed to let the whole breed murmur to themselves: There but for the grace...