Word: sirring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hardest job of his life, Father Franks lives close to his work. The day begins at 7:15 when the Franks children (Caroline, 10, and Allison, 4) rouse their parents. Breakfast is in a small room off Lady Franks's bedroom (just fruit juice and coffee for Sir Oliver, who has to watch his weight; once when he was laid up with a broken...
Shortly after 9 a.m., his quiet "Good morning, where is the mail?" starts his private office staff fluttering. The first half-hour goes to the mail, the second to reviewing the pile of cables decoded during the night. His first conference is with Minister Sir Frederick Hoyer Millar, a veteran of 26 years in Britain's Foreign Service and the Ambassador's alter ego. The morning's problem may be anything from London's attitude on the Austrian peace treaty to an analysis of how to soothe ruffled U.S. feelings over the Anglo-Argentine trade treaty...
Following Sir Frederick comes the Embassy No. 3 man, genial, 39-year-old Counselor Dennis Allen. He may refer...
...Franks may find an official from one of his 20-odd consular offices waiting to report. The procession continues through the afternoon. As his day's work ends, Lady Franks may come in with a hostess problem: Would champagne for the visiting British bishops be too ostentatious? Sir Oliver thinks...
Free Hand. If it did, Britain could thank sharp-faced, elderly (66) Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland. Sir Geoffrey, who had designed and flown his first plane in 1909 (it crashed), has turned out some of Britain's best-known military planes (Mosquito, Vampire). It was his firm that developed the famed Ghost jet engine that shot a De Havilland fighter to the world's altitude record (56,400 ft.) and started Sir Geoffrey thinking about a jet transport...