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...ring was first. Slimmed down, limply clad in a grey suit that once fitted him snugly, he strode into the courtroom at Nürnberg, flanked by two white-helmeted military policemen. He stood erect under the glaring lights, fixed headphones to his ears. British Presiding Lord Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence looked sternly down on the No. 2 Nazi and pronounced sentence: death by hanging...
...evening last week Britain's No. 1 test pilot shut himself into what was probably the most advanced piece of air machinery ever to get beyond the blueprinting stage, and took off into the darkening sky. The pilot was Captain Geoffrey De Havilland, 37, crown prince of one of aviation's few dynasties. His father, Sir Geoffrey, heads the De Havilland Aircraft Co.; his younger brother John was killed (1943) in the collision of two planes. Since 1938, Captain Geoffrey had made every first flying test of De Havilland's aircraft...
...easygoing start, the 55th triennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church warmed up to a lively boil. In Philadelphia last week the subject in the 150-man House of Bishops was Divorce. In the 700-man* House of Deputies it was Union. The Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, had come from England to watch the proceedings. Presiding over the House of Bishops was the Episcopal Church's nearest equivalent (it was not very near) to the Primate of All England: the Most Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, Presiding Bishop of the Church since...
Under Naziism, the soul of Germany all but died. Under the occupation, its failing spark has yet to be blown again into flame. Lest it go out altogether, the Rev. Geoffrey P. Druitt, British Assistant Chaplain General, last week delivered a message, almost a prayer, to the British forces in Germany...
Search for Truth. R.D.S. has proved to the average man that religious plays need not be boring. It got the chance during the war, when Browne directed a band of professionals called the Pilgrim Players. Community groups got interested in their morale-builders-Murder in the Cathedral, Geoffrey Whiteworth's Father Noah, Ernest Rhys's The Deluge-decided to do something themselves. Sheffield led the way. In 1943 its interdenominational Association of Christian Communities hired a professional actress as dramatic adviser, has since organized plays with groups varying from mothers' unions to tough boys' clubs...