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Strachey's strangest alliance was with a woman, of all people-a hoydenish little kook named Dora Carrington, described by a friend as "a tin of mixed biscuits." Carrington met him at a house party in 1915. He offended her one evening, and next morning she crept into his bedroom, intending to cut off his beard by way of revenge. Instead, she fell in love with him, and moved in to take care of him for the rest of his life. That was fine with Strachey, who later fell in love with a beau of Carrington's named...
...answer was yes, and the police got it on the spot from Lawyer Frank Carrington, 31, a legal adviser to the Chicago police department who had come along for the pinch. Reinforced with knowledge of the law, the cops rushed to the nearby building, arrested the bookie and four customers, and picked up policy slips and other incriminating evidence. "It was a good pinch," says Carrington. "I think it will stick in court...
...guidelines for policemen to follow in searching, seizing and questioning suspects, many law-enforcement officers complain that they are hamstrung. Said one disgruntled Corpus Christi, Texas, cop: "It's getting so bad that lawyers practically have to ride around in patrol cars." That's precisely what Frank Carrington and a number of other young lawyers, trained at Northwestern's Law School under a $300,000, five-year Ford Foundation grant, have been doing. "The resolution of conflicts between maximum police efficiency and maximum individual liberty," says the program's codirector, Professor James Thompson, "calls...
...month of grouse shooting, and he finished up the year back at Sandringham where he spent his own and the Princess's birthdays. He found the intrusion of political affairs intensely annoying. "Another General Election will be a very serious matter," he wrote in 1886 to Lord Carrington, "and a most untoward event in the middle of the London Season...
...Very Small Remnant, as in his first novel, Carrington, Straight mines and mourns U.S. behavior to the Indians during the often bloody westward expansion at the close of the Civil War, Carrington was a small masterpiece; Remnant is not so successful, but its heroes are the same: those few white men who had the courage to risk unpopularity to deal honestly with...