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medieval knight, and his arrival man who will crown the Queen. He was a teacher 13 years ago

chused a perisation.

Next day Vittoriano rented a ittle too und set up shop. AL first only a few women dured to entrust their long black tresses 10 Vittoriano's sclcsorn, But when the others ROW the masterpieces that came out from under Vittoriano's magic cask they flocked to the young, hand- some Figuro.

Vittoriano became the tot of San Nicandro's women, and re- volutionised the life of the vil

Inge: Girls, married women even few mature ladies, beautiful and rejuvenated by Vittoriano's art, became dash-

When lipstick made

coquettisht.

its first appearance

village, engagements were broken right and left, rows flared up in the homes and the spaghetti came on the table with 100 'much salt in it or none at all.

5.

In

the

His birthday

WHEN

66

to

AM inclined think," the Arch- bishop said, "that it is not `n bad thing for a man to change the direction of his life at the age of 45."

Few people can do it, of It needs courage, course. will-power, brains, and 11 great sense of purpose. And probably luck and a cerlain amount of help.'

But at 45 Geoffrey Fran- eis Fisher resigned from his job as headmaster of Rep

on. Thirteen years later the schoolmaster had be- come the Most Réverend and Right Honourable the Lord Archbishop of Canter- bury, Primate of All Eng- land and Metropolitan.

What sort of a man

Vitoriano's birthday came, to show him their gratitude, the women went out In the Belds and collected wild Bowers to

decorate his Hitle shop. The men were furious. be? Two students sent him a rotten cabbage In a bunch of nettles,

They were both in love with

mis sue

is.

In a sense he has always been something of a sitter

Isabella, the most beautiful girl for the critics: a "very or

In the village,

bullets.

but she had dinary

marked

IS 45

BEST

TO

THE

AGE

Governnicht, and speak for the raid to have killed off William Church in the Lords. He must Temple in under three years. cucourage and guide the slow, Dr Fisher, as conscientious and delicate Christian renaissance hard working, is a ft man, which he firmly believes is whose cager brain bels him beginning in our midst. And through 0 day's work that try to remain Geoffrey Fisher, would drive a career politician a human being, as well.

into retirement. But for how long?

He was unprepared; he took his time; he did not try to Imitate anyone, but remained himself. And he bas won through.

He controls that flery collec- JULE

HIS STAFF

Church allows the Primate tw chaplains and Individualists, the five secretaries. A stalk which lawn sleeved would be small for a big-busi- bishops In Convocation, with ness

man. masterly case.

BEGINE

and

A NEW LIFE?

-by-

Derek Monsey-

great dignity,' between media- erity and brilliance;

“Change direction at 46, yes"

he. says." "But I never

moderate; man;. the safe"

und chosen for office, they said, just for these dull and negative had & plan for life. It virtues. No one has ever never mapped cut. expected much of him. But happened." was

really

WOR Things

filted them and decepled

ourtship of the dashing hafr dresser.

Vit- The birthday. foriano's triumph and death. As he was riding home on his bleyele late at night he ambushed and riddled with the "very ordinary man" When, at 27, he became one

has shown time and again of the youngest ever public tar police have been that he is, in fact, of # school headmaster, it WOR tinable to find the murderers,

"entirely the doing They stopped and questionesi❘ strangely extraordinary friends." Chief friend already the two students, but they had

was the retiring head of Repton, perfect alibis and had to be re- leased.

He is a short man, grow. the meteoric William Temple, ing portly, 66 years old, occasionally afflicted with port and not only gout (though not a drinker).

They questioned on old man from whom Villoriano had won 230, at cards-Vittoriano Was lucky all round

In lovo-but he, too, had a fool

proof alibl

quality.

FINE JOB

of my

At the moment he gets Brecon always provide a through somehow breaches, less formula to reconella

than he would like in his own tremists. Ife has

he shown theres ads le thon

would like speaks

In the courage to re- Lords less than ho would buke publicly an like, roda teng than hc admired

should, and just finds time to Bishop Barnes, polish off The Times Crossword for his heterodox es relaxation, most nights be- views, and tell fore bed.. should leave the

hu he

L

a

45,

The

Archbishop of Canter

how-

##

Church. And the greatness, few years later, to pay bury should not be encouraged sincere tribute to the "courtesy, to charge into on carly, courage, and deep devation" of ever honoured, grave. Eispeelally the same man, when he retired if he is as great a 7X-421 this month.

Geoffrey Franels Fisher has shown he can be, since ho He stalks the world, whether

fic seems to have put ute changed his job and his life al his own "diocese, or on his flying" "Inches on to his short stature, visits to America, Australia or and it is plain that the "very New Zealand, talking to people ordinary man" will dominate, and making personal converts the Coronation scene. Dignified as if he had been brought up and assured, exclusively on Rudyard Kipling's not only that

the nature of the crowning shall be dominant, not only that all the people shall join in communion with their Queen with God."

***

he is depiritual |

EMPHATIC

-

of

He is in fact the quiet, simple champion of the ordinary simple virtues; the more-or-less ignor but also that the whole splendid ed ones, Home, family, service, service shall be as perfect an faithful reverence for the tradi- England can make, individual responsibility and a offering as the Church tions and mysteries of Christ- fully understood and cepted. make up

the Arch- bishop's religious front.

With his wife, true-worsted,

RCHBISHOP TEMPLE used pillar of the schoolmaster was dug the Biother's Union, they form a

A his controversial, bulwark

the Phatle personality ngalast

to force become overnight the Lord

modern Bishop of Chester, it was again and the sanctity of

onslaught on the family people to think. His disciple, Dr Fisher, Is using office to try marslago. "not of my seeking." Chlet

family only truly begins is probably a better bet for the to make them work together. It friend still was certainly Temple, by now the powerful, is fond

Dr with the third child," Dr Fisher

British. rubicund, controversial

of saying he favours Arch six and bishop of York.

upwards and was the youngest son

bald- genial,

crowned, and possessed ofGHTEEN years later, when staunchly Intelligent,

the shrewdly incisive ad- out of contented obscurity to solid Tight-tipped

THE inquiry is going on but Turtle clocut

ext-

getting the killers, as Son Nicandro's men become *tremely tight-lipped when the

hairdresser. is mentioned.

But the story-tellers, who in that part of the world take the place of newspapers, radio, TV and the comics, know why Vittoriano has lost his life. They sing a. tale, (which rhymes prettily in the Italian language) to the notes of a gultur

The handsome hairdresser had cut too many tresses.

And somebody for vendetta has blown off his head."

POCKET. CARTOON|

by OSBERT LANCASTER

JER SPOTTER 1/100 gentleman 77 mi

ministrative brain of industrial tycoon.

HOMELY

An

TUFFED of the forbidding.

aro

*

Aard

.cm-

He has already done a lot to 1. rectory change the age-old hostility He had made a fine thing of family of ton--"My word, what between button-gaiterod, black cos-

we are missing, today without into a developing, friendliness. clergy and bishops tume of his rank he once said his job at Repton; he was

distinguished if not a creative these children." to Danny Kaye: "The difference scholar (he still has not pub-

the 'mon "with no parochial between us la that you

as been the Bret admit freely that funny Intentionally" he might shed a book).

the Church is "the br taken

Arst at

sight

worst pald profesion for a country doctor or

in England" and neglected scholar.

insist that the wretchedly re- a reasonable minimum wage.

of a

a

Labrador

But the young man who had played Rugby enthusiastically and just failed. to get his rowing

retriever. photographs em- that many of his clergy felt he

WON THROUGH

was 1945 that William

--

blue at Oxford, who had been I Temple died, after being warded parish priest be given His face la shrewd but ordained in his early twenties, friendly: the hard lines of 30 married at thirty, and now had Primate for only two years, years ago have softened among a family of six sons, was thought Temple's friend and disciple, bring

Dr Fisher, for over 30 years Fisher's sole ambition is to loose folds of flesh that give "extremely

about greater lucky to get a became the ninth Bishop of among Christians, whether they him, in repose, something of the bishopric.

unity London to go to Canterbury, belong or not to the Established quasi-dignity

More than that. Ho

Straphanging in the tube on his Church. Most of his

only this.

Palace.... was no man for the job, that the day after the announcement,

home to Fulham Way phus the second look which some had even "prayed about he still brooded on the deeply AN IDEAL reveals real nobility in his face, the matter beforehand, but the felt, pubile-school spirited

state the vivid pateness of his eyes, is what we have got," that the the dignited intellectual fore- first but by no means last word ment he had just made. head, and firm. humorous in

in his condemnation

"Nobody," he said, "can fill himself will work with

any Christian. He will have mouth of a man who could variably 13 ho repeated in self- Archbishop Temple's place and possibly expect to be loved but mockeryno parochial experi- I am not going to attempt to do nothing to do either with the laymen of certainly expect to be ence, my dear friend; and, you so. But since this has been put smartly superior

Stranding the fire know, it doesn't really work."" upon me and

that all who are not C. of E. place in the deep-carpeted. Bishop of Chester 1032, Bishop my duty--I shall told. it is Eleries of the Church who insist

do my best,"

are outsiders, "Schian," he says, airy, panelled study at Lambeth of

two-palaco He was 1939 and right

"is among us all. No one is “in- man: Lambeth London,

In

The Palace, galtered legs apart, through the war..

aldo and no one out. We all hands clasped behind him, his

Old Palace at Canterbury,

As Primate the care of the belong one, to another" chin threatening to sink nimost

The old dream world of a overseas through the Dominions united Church, acting positivo-

would..

London

was in-

ΠΟΥ

to the great gold' cross on his UNDERSTANDING whole Church at home, and breast, he seems surfeited, ful-

filed

light brilliantly, the man

* and Empire, its relationship with ly among the millions of British

1:

'world to it-

Then suddauly a move, his He made an immense reputa- other great Churches of the who claim to, be› Christion and finger points and the pale ytor, and won round his parish Protesta were added to his acoffrey Fister. It is an

tlan as a brilliant adminis world Roman Catholic or do nothing to make the claim

In Europe and good, is Do dream determined, a force to priests by an understanding of

of America—were reckon with. This is of mucia their problema and work as fundamental job as Bishop of tatable ideal, an the Fisher trick as a natural, much sa by his manner, the the Canterbury dļoceso..

ire, Can ho attain it? Characteristic: the poise h warm, humorous ease of the He was now a State Figure,

The tween apparent torpor and a man which makes everyone he required for all big ceremoplat bard work and responsi

tion, between ordinariness and meets a friend immediately. occasions; he must advise the billifee of the Primate's job aro

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