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...prelate was recuperating from gout. He had been Archbishop of Canterbury for only two and a half years. Speculation about his successor, to be appointed by the King (on the advice of the Prime Minister), centered around two names: Dr. Cyril Forster Garbett, 69, Archbishop of York, and Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 57, Bishop of London. But one thing was certain: there is no one else quite like William Temple in the whole Anglican Communion. London's Tory Times and Communist Daily Worker mourned him equally...
...anthropologist who has never been in Japan has offered Allied leaders a new study of Japanese psychology. He is British-born Geoffrey Gorer, 39, anthropological researcher of Yale's Institute of Human Relations, now doing secret research in Washington for the British Government. He places great importance on the severe toilet training of Japanese infants...
...Geoffrey Crowther, editor of the famed London Economist and of Transatlantic, the new London monthly which labors to explain the U.S. to the British, said: "American listeners should realize that we are more frightened of an American depression after the war than we are of a British depression. We want to be sure that America will not allow another gigantic depression...
British expert G. Geoffrey Smith, whose authoritative work, Gas Turbines and, Jet Propulsion for Aircraft, will soon be published in the U.S. by Aerosphere, Inc., makes this distinction: a rocket carries its own combustion mixture, including oxygen; a jet-propulsion device has fuel but draws oxygen for combustion from the surrounding atmosphere...
...Manchester-born Englishman who could not go to college because he had to earn a living, Geoffrey Bridson got so bored selling insurance that "I just found myself starting poetry." He became a protege of T. S. Eliot, began writing for BBC eight years ago. One of BBC's most prolific writer-producers, he has many a notable show (The March of the '45, Transatlantic Call, etc.) to his credit...