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...Geoffrey Francis Fisher, archbishop of Canterbury and vice president of the Alliance, society for the encouragement of sex education, backed the demand. "I am not saying," he insisted, "that the obtaining of contraceptives in the ordinary way by adults should be curtailed. It is the indiscriminate, uncontrolled provision of them that is entirely evil. Children growing up in a world in which it is hard for them to avoid knowing too much about sex . . . now find it blatantly easy to turn their knowledge into practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blatantly Easy | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...George J. Feeney '50, Editor in Chief; Edward Tipton Kenyon '50, Managing Editor; Donald M. Landis '50, Business Manager; R. Johnson Shortlidge '50, Register Editor and Sports Editor; Edward B. Ayres '50, Activities and Organizations Editor; Thomas Holmquist '50, Biographies Editor; Andrew S. Kaufman '51, Assistant Business Manager; Geoffrey Groff-Smith '50, Photographic Manager; and David P. Lighthill '50, Feature Editor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '314' Yearbook Replaces Dead Album | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

Free Hand. If it did, Britain could thank sharp-faced, elderly (66) Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland. Sir Geoffrey, who had designed and flown his first plane in 1909 (it crashed), has turned out some of Britain's best-known military planes (Mosquito, Vampire). It was his firm that developed the famed Ghost jet engine that shot a De Havilland fighter to the world's altitude record (56,400 ft.) and started Sir Geoffrey thinking about a jet transport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: New Stars in the Sky | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Geoffrey, a free-enterpriser, wanted to build the first Comet for the government without government interference. To win that freedom, along with the necessary government contract, he risked a heavy loss by accepting a penalty clause. If the Comet was not completed on time and did not perform as specified, he would have to pay the cost himself. He won the bet. He reckons that his Comet can cut the New York-to-London run to six hours, make the round-trip possible in one day. As a result of such enterprise, Sir Geoffrey last week was getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: New Stars in the Sky | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

There is a descendant of Charlemagne, Lucrezia Borgia, Mary Queen of Scots, William the Silent, Vladimir of Russia, Geoffrey Chaucer, Pierre de Ronsard, Diane de Poitiers, Agnes Sorel and 1,048,567 other traceable ancestors, who frequently breaks 70 on the golf links. Three years ago he donated a silver cup-La Coupe du Roi des Beiges, for a tournament at Onex, Switzerland-and last year he won the cup himself. This year he reached the quarter finals of the amateur championship in Paris. Other members of the Onex club hail Leopold III, King of the Belgians, as "a perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: A Perfect Golfer | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

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