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Lots of Englishmen take to the U.S. like ducks to water, but few learn to quack the idiom as fast or as well as Geoffrey Bridson has. Redhaired, red-mustached, bouncy little Bridson (pronounced Brideson), 33, has for the past four months been interpreting the U.S. to Britons via BBC. He has done so with uncommon perception and success. Onetime insurance salesman, poet, at present Geoffrey Bridson is BBC's best known writer-producer-director...
...Said Britain's Bishop of London, Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher: "There is concern about the landslide in sexual morality...
Editor of this hopeful publication is Geoffrey Crowther, who is also editor of the Economist (TIME, Aug. 30). To the 50,000 British readers which Transatlantic wants, Editor Crowther observes: "Transatlantic's hope is that it may help you to base your likes and dislikes on knowledge instead of on ignorance. . . . It is not an attempt to seduce you from your proper loyalties. . . . Will it look at America through rose-tinted spectacles? Certainly not. . . . Friendly candor is to be the keynote...
Editor today, and largely responsible for the Economist's prestige, is plump, affable Geoffrey Crowther, 36, who studied at Cambridge, at Yale on a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship (Rhodes scholarship in reverse), then at New York's Columbia University. In the U.S. he acquired, besides an education, a wife. He worked in Wall Street (as a messenger for J. W. Seligman Co.), returned to London in 1932 to join the Economist. He became editor in 1938, when...
...list was Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, who took command of the U.S. II Corps for the victorious push in Tunisia. General Bradley was leading a corps of the Seventh Army. Dispatches at the fall of Palermo (see p. 33) identified Major General Geoffrey Keyes as General Patton's deputy commander, and indicated that he might be leading another army corps. Keyes is an old associate of Patton's and an armored-force expert, whose last published command was the 9th Armored Division at Camp Campbell...