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...direction. Said he in his Sunday sermon: "The publicity attendant on the departure of a priest of this church for Rome has highlighted the question of authority in the Episcopal Church. The statement of this former clergyman . . . illustrates the words of the bishops of the Anglican Communion at the Lambeth Conference [in 1948]: 'A perplexed generation is in search of an authority to which to give its allegiance and easily submits to the appeal of authoritarian systems, whether religious or secular...
Cheers in the Streets. His reward for a lifetime of doing his job well came in the Silver Jubilee celebration of 1935, the year before he died. Drawn by four greys with postilions, the King and his Queen drove around the poorer quarters of London, through Battersea, Kennington and Lambeth, Limehouse and Whitechapel. Everywhere, his subjects turned out to applaud and cheer...
...kingfisher, his Auster shot under Waterloo's central arch. The Mad Major rounded the bend that takes the Thames toward Westminster. He jinked past a river steamer, circled the county-council hall and swooshed under Westminster Bridge (clearance: 40 ft.), within yards of New Scotland Yard. Next came Lambeth Bridge (clearance: 43 ft.), then Vauxhall, Chelsea, Albert and Battersea Bridges. Not one is 50 ft. above the water yet the Mad Major flew his plane under arch after arch at 90 m.p.h...
Matter of Privacy. In London, the borough of Lambeth council voted to close down their two $23,800 community laundries, commented sadly: "People don't want to wash their clothes in front of their neighbors...
Hope shuffled grimly through his first attempt at the Lambeth Walk, then gagged it up again with Singer Maxwell, for photographers, who just happened to be waiting for such a scene...