Word: minster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...history," said Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once, "before I read it." He played games amid relics of the Roman, Saxon and Norman conquests; his father was vicar of a church built by the medieval Minster monks. As a boy he watched British seapower-in full sail-pass through the Channel. He prepped at 1,200-year-old Sherborne School, which claims Alfred the Great as a pupil...
...church music's most honored living men, British-born Dr. Noble was organist (for 15 years and some 14,000 services) at 600-year-old York Minster, celebrated for its architecture and its acoustics.* When he left in 1913 to come to the U.S., Archbishop of York Cosmo Gordon Lang (later Archbishop of Canterbury) charged him: "I want you to go to America and take some of York Minster into your church on Fifth Avenue. You must carry some of the old world into...
After a trip back to York Minster this summer, Organist Noble plans to go on composing at his ocean-front home in Massachusetts, "until the publishers start turning me down." In retirement, he may also have enough leisure to correct the oft-published story that he is the uncle of British-born Jazz Bandman Ray Noble. Says Dr. Noble with a smile: "We're no relation at all. I can't imagine why he should want to claim...
King George had gently suggested that his representative be someone less active in party politics than Billy McKell. When Chifley, who under the Statute of West minster has the last word, overruled the King, official London was quietly horrified. (An editor privately muttered: "If the King suggests, dammit, that should be enough...
...Most notable recent arestees: Pierre Etienne Flandin, ex-Foreign Minster under Marshal Pétain; Marcel Peyrouton, ex-Minister of the Interior under Pétain; Pierre Boisson, turncoat Governor General of French West Africa, who fired on a joint British-Free French landing at Dakar...