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...themselves the Church of England in South Africa. For more than 70 years the smaller church has wanted a bishop of its own, but the regular Anglican Church refused to provide one. Last August the dissidents finally decided to get a bishop on their own initiative, elected George Frederick Bingley Morris, retired Anglican Bishop of North Africa, and installed him in Johannesburg. Faced with schism, the Archbishop of Canterbury warned Morris to withdraw or be considered excommunicated. Morris's answer did not sound as if he intended to give up his bishopric. He threatened to sue the Archbishop...
...angrily. " 'I like Kukes,' said the Meiklejohns. So he's dead and his wife has only half a face. Bowyer liked Kukes; they ripped him up in his bath, and we had hell's own job to stop his bowels going down the drain. Bingley and Ferguson trusted Kukes; they're both dead. Gibson said his Kuke servants would warn him if he was in danger; who let Gibson's murderers...
...Indies, remarking casually to his aunt that he would come back a duke. "Ah, Duke of Puddle Dock," snorted the old lady (referring to a filthy slum in London's East End). When, 21 years later, the onetime clerk came home to die, he was Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles, Kt., founder and administrator of the rich island-fortress of Singapore, an imperial hero of the stature of Robert Clive and Warren Hastings, the man who put a stop to East Indian slave dealing and for whom one of the world's most famous hotels would be named...
Died. Mrs. George (Blanche Bingley) Hillyard, 83, pioneer woman tennis star in the age of whalebone and bustles, six-time winner of the Wimbledon ladies' title between 1886 and 1900; in Pulborough, England...
...Darcy, the wit and spirit of Elizabeth Bennet (Greer Garson) eclipse the distressing machinations of Mrs. Bennet (Mary Boland) in her search for rich husbands for her five marriageable daughters. He breaks up an unsuitable affair between Elizabeth's sister and his friend Mr. Bingley, then with an air of misfortune announces that he is willing to make an unsuitable match himself. At which point, Austenites recall, Elizabeth gives him his comeuppance. Before Darcy's pride and Elizabeth's prejudice give way, some ob servers may find the going a little lacy...