Word: leader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many Christians are convinced that the finest Christian leader thus far produced by the 20th Century was William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury when he died in 1944. His faith, courage, wisdom, humor, leadership, humility-and holiness-made him the rare combination of a prelate who was also a prophet. Those who knew Temple will never forget him. For those who did not know him, there is now a fine full-length portrait: Dean F. A. Iremonger's official biography, William Temple (Oxford University Press; 663 pages; 25 shillings...
Temple became the leader and symbol of the surge toward church unity. At one of the meetings that paved the way for the final, formal establishment of the World Council of Churches (TIME, Sept. 13), the disagreements were so sharp that it seemed humanly impossible to reconcile the conflicting views. Temple was presiding, with his usual unruffled skill. "How will this do?" he asked, and read a few scribbled sentences. There was an awed silence, broken by two voices, one conveying the grave congratulations of a European theologian and the other from a U.S. delegate who said "Archbishop, you tickle...
...puffs a little as he climbs to the attic bedroom of his stately 22-room Georgian house in Richmond's swank Hampton Gardens. But Freeman has no intention of dropping any of his fulltime jobs. For 33 years he has been editor of the Richmond News Leader, of which he is also a "substantial" stockholder.* And for 23 years Freeman has been a daily news broadcaster. When he finds time in between, he labors on his huge historical projects...
Freeman eats his breakfast slowly (he never hurries anything) then allows 17 minutes for the 4.7-mile trip to the News Leader building in the heart of Richmond, and that's what it takes. As he rolls past the handsome statue of Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue, he gravely raises right hand to forehead in salute to the "great gentleman" whom he considers the finest man the South has produced. "I shall never fail to do that as long as I live...
...Time for Smoking. At 8:16 a.m. Freeman is back in his office. Waiting for him are the key newsmen of the News Leader, prepared to have their brains picked by the editor. Each one is expected to have at least one juicy item a day. Freeman starts with the capitol reporter ("Mister, how's the Governor today?") and goes right down the line. No one smokes, because Freeman objects to the lingering odor (he dropped smoking years ago when he found that the buying, lighting, smoking and crushing out of cigarettes, "wasted" 8½ hours a week). Freeman...