Article November 24, 2008 Issue

AROUND THE WORLD WITH A BLESSING MISSION

BY JOHN YEMMA

ONE OF THE GREAT Journalists among many great journalists during The Christian Science Monitor's first 100 years was an ebullient Briton named Geoffrey Godsell. Geoffrey reported from the Middle East in the years after the Second World War, served as the Monitor's international news editor, and was something of a celebrity in Boston in the 1970s because of his appearances on a weekly newsmakers' TV show.

I didn't know him well, but he was kind enough to spend an afternoon with my wife and me just before we left on a Monitor assignment in the Middle East in the 1980s.

With a nonstop stream of facts, anecdotes, and funny asides at his command, Geoffrey raced us through a merry tour of Boston—from Lexington Green to the scene of the Boston Tea Party—before settling down for conversation over smoked finnan haddie at the old Jimmy's Harborside Restaurant.

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