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...miles away) in the afternoon; "put off his Boots and riding Cloaths, and went dress'd as if be had been an Inhabitant of the Place to the Bowling-green," where he asked the Lord Mayor what time it was. Later a jury acquitted him, on his lordship's swearing to his alibi. King Charles II, hearing of this exploit, graciously congratulated the hero...
...past seven months burly Baron Digby has risen at 6:30 a.m. After breakfast his Lordship, wearing his habitual thick brown tweeds and checked cap on his bald head, steps into the stone-paved yard of his rambling Tudor manor house. Standing by the dairy is a neat, navy blue, electric van, loaded with Guernsey milk from Lord Digby's 30 pedigreed cows, pastured on his 200-acre farm. Accompanied by his helper, aged Edwin White, Lord Digby hops in and sets off to deliver milk to the inhabitants of Cerne Abbas...
...When his Lordship first arrived with milk, class-conscious housewives were somewhat embarrassed. Today the van's super service and Baron Digby's affable, businesslike manner have ended all that. Not only does he supply rich milk (at the regulation fivepence a pint), but the van is loaded with vegetables, flowers and fresh fruit, grown on Lord Digby's larger estate at Minterne, a mile away...
Baron Digby turned milkman when none of his 40 employes could drive the newly purchased delivery truck. Now his Lordship likes to drive it so much that he won't give...
Ecumenical Church. Having painstakingly diagnosed Protestantism's compound ailments, Dr. Morrison fairly raced to a prescription for the cure: U.S. Protestantism's 200-odd separate "churches" must become a single Church united under the Lordship of Christ...