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...letters columns of Britain's newspapers erupted in praise and censure of the bishop. Romanesque Anglican Harris packed off to a small hotel in Devon, "desolate" at his dismissal. He could not and would not become a Roman Catholic, he said. But he still had a puckish message for "certain" people in the Church of England: "Up the Pope...
...Birmingham Mail on the streets by having a go at the Linotype machines ("Eh, mate. Can't we have overalls like you?" called one begrimed girl to a man, gasped when she recognized Eric Clayson, chairman of the board, who had donned work clothes to help out). In Devon, an ironmonger's wife who works as a stringer correspondent for several regional papers decided to put out one of her own, used foolscap and duplicating machines to publish the Chulmleigh Chimes. In such villages as Honiton and Devizes, town criers polished their bells, walked the streets belting...
...Ottawa's Foreign Trade Service hopes to improve with a booklet for businessmen pointing out Ireland's liberal tariff and import policies for Canadian products-aluminum, wheat, lumber, newsprint, hides. The main problem is that Canada fails to reciprocate. Wrote the Toronto Telegram's Financial Editor Devon Smith: ''Ireland is another of those countries which Canada treats in as offhand a manner as Canadians claim the Americans treat ourselves...
...Liberals went all out. They picked as their candidate personable 36-year-old Mark Bonham-Carter. For three weeks the battle raged through the narrow lanes and market villages of North Devon-from Sheepwash to Zeal Monachorum, from Milton Damerel to Buckland Brewer, from Wrinkeberry to Woolfardisworthy to Frithelstock. The candidate's energetic mother, 70-year-old Lady Violet
...Tories" and harking back to the glorious days of Liberalism when her father, Lord Asquith, was Prime Minister (1908-16). Last week Bonham-Carter triumphantly topped the Tory candidate by a narrow 219 votes (with Labor a poor third) and became the new M.P. from Torrington. Mused a Devon farmer in corduroy breeches and leather leggings: "The Liberals may be no better'n no worse'n the others-but they might be better; can't tell till...