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...roly-poly, rubicund Anglican vicar named R. Anderson Jardine felt an urgent spiritual call. In defiance of the Archbishop of Canterbury he married the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield. Later he turned up in Hollywood, earned a living by marrying romantic couples who wanted to be wed by the man who had married the Duke and Wally...
Last fortnight de-oomphing had got as far as Washington, D. C. For two days the vicar looked over dozens of spiritual girls. At last he picked Ellen Burton, 19, big-eyed and brunette, to be Miss Spiritual Washington. True, the winner came from Alexandria, Va., eight miles across the Potomac. But she had spirituality...
...Said the vicar's cameraman: "There is sorrow in her countenance. It lends her a spiritual look...
Perversely Anglophile as ever, Ouseley-Gogarty leaves De Valera's Ireland to visit his old friend, the vicar of Mea Culpa at Waltham Whirling on the Thames. He discovers the vicar's niece Parmenis, who is as rude as she is beautiful. He reminisces about undergraduate roistering at Oxford; the result is a fair example of the unresting Gogarty wit and the chief Gogarty interest: "I could not help recalling the scene, near midnight one long-vanished summer, between the bridges of the canal behind the college, the silhouetted bowler hats of the proctors converging from each side...
...Piccadilly provost marshal remanded to Bow Street one Rev. Maurice Kenal Exham, 71, former Dorset vicar, for "wearing a military uniform calculated falsely to suggest that he was an Army captain." Quick was the vicar to explain: 1) the family of his 12th-Century ancestor, Sir Richard Exham, had been granted the right to wear military uniform "in perpetuity" by Henry II for aid in the Irish troubles; 2) the right had never been abrogated...