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Some weeks ago the Archbishop of Canterbury took as Primate of All England a straddled position on the bill, saying he would abstain from voting, and this freed the tongues of such unconventional clerics as the Bishop of Birmingham who last week cried: "I challenge the suggestion that bishops of the Church of England should not vote for the bill because remarriage after divorce is contrary to the traditions of the Church of England. . . . One of the merits of the bill is that it would promote morality"-i.e., tend by making remarriage easier to lessen the temptation to adultery...
...Queen" Helen Werner, longtime Los Angeles political fixer who was tried and freed by State and Federal authorities last year on charges of bribe taking (TIME, Dec. 21), was found unconscious by police on a Long Beach lawn, booked for drunkenness. She forfeited $10 bail...
...helped by the cabin boy (Mickey Rooney), held the wheel against the ruffian mutineers. At St. Helena, Mate Thompson, with the gallows in his mind, planned to destroy evidence by linking the slaves' fetters to the anchor chain and dropping anchor. In a free-for-all, Skipper Lovett freed most of the blackbirds, shot Thompson in the belly. Put on trial for slaving, Lovett admitted his guilt. Nancy's testimony, in the picture's best dramatic scene, saves his life...
...fetus, Dr. Brunkow felt some resistance: the mon ster's head was attached to the sac. Dr. Brunkow cut this attachment and then found that the inclusion's liver, which had developed outside its body, was also attached to the sac. Another nick of a scalpel freed Barbara Stobie of her ab normal burden and permitted Dr. Brunkow to close her up. He left the skin-like sac within her, to be removed at some more favorable time...
Varro was patron to the son of one of his freed slaves, Terence, a potter by trade but an actor by inclination, who so strongly resembled the late Nero that he had once successfully impersonated him before the Senate. Nero's easygoing colonial administration had made him and his memory extremely popular in the East; the present government, with less flexible policies, was not. Varro's idea: to start the rumor that Nero had reappeared, then palm off his protege Terence as the revivified Emperor, thus stir up hornets for penny-pinching Cejonius. Varro knew...