People: Sep. 8, 1961

"My new job won't stop me from coming here. Why should it?" wondered the recently ascended Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Arthur Michael Ramsey, 56, as he and his wife padded about their 20-year vacation retreat: an antique pub in rural Devonshire. Paying $29.40 a week room and board, the Primate of All England now and again abandoned his customary gaiters to tromp the neighboring moors, in a vacation ensemble of cloth cap, tweed sports jacket and flannel bags. As for the inner man. the Archbishop appeared to find the pub's cuisine quite as appealing as that of Lambeth Palace. "It's good...

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