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Also elected to the slate of Alumni officers, who will take office after Commencement Day and serve for one year, were three vice-presidents: Dr. Augustus Thorndike '19, Geoffrey S. Smith '22, and Courtland S. Gross...
...mumbo-jumbo medicine man. He carries credentials: a note on the stationery of Lambeth Palace and signed by the late Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. William Temple: "Mr. Godfrey Mowatt is taking services and speaking at meetings by my wish and authority." Under these words Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, the present Archbishop, has written: "I am glad to add my endorsement and extension to the above...
When Editor R. M. Barrington-Ward left on a voyage last winter, Deputy Editor Casey moved into the magnificently shabby Editors Room at Printing House Square. When Barrington-Ward died in Tanganyika, nobody expected Casey to succeed him. Fleet Street rumors pointed to the Economist's brilliant Editor Geoffrey Crowther or the Times's Senior Assistant Editor Donald Tyerman (whom Tories consider too far left); Colonel the Hon. John Jacob Astor, who owns a controlling interest in the Times, couldn't get Crowther so didn't try, and needed Tyerman where he was. He decided...
After two months and 10,000 miles of travel in the U.S., chubby Geoffrey Crowther, editor of London's famed Economist (TIME, Feb. 2), found the U.S. state of mind very different from 1929, when he had made his first visit. Then, wrote Crowther in This Week magazine, "everybody you met . . . was sure that American business had discovered the secret of eternal prosperity. Now the mood is very different. Business is very good, certainly, but in every smoking room you are told the reasons why it can't stay that...
...Geoffrey Gorer is a British anthropologist who writes of the American people with the poker-faced detachment of an anthropologist studying the tribal dances and customs of an Indian tribe. Most Americans, reading his book, will probably feel that they have been made fun of, mocked and double-crossed, for having let an outlander into the midst of their tribal rites...