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...highfalutin. But I just couldn't do anything other than be a minister"). She took a B.D. at King's College, London University, in 1946 was appointed first woman chaplain to the armed forces. The next year she married a Church of England priest, the Rev. John Carrington. For a while she was pastor of the Vineyard Congregational Church in Richmond, Surrey, about four miles from Hampton, where her husband is vicar, but she gave that up officially (she still preaches there) to join the interdenominational religious staff...
...Walter Carrington, a member of the national board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said that he, too, was certain of the need for desegregated schools by September, 1955, if possible, and by September, 1956, at the very latest...
...Carrington added that if desegregation very delayed for any considerable period its enemies would have a chance to rally and obstruct it. "We have a good example of what vacillation on the part of a school board can do," he said, "when we see how bigots were able to re-establish segregation in the Milford, Delaware, public schools after its board wavered in their decision to desegregate...
...Carringtons have come to depend on the drum. At 5:30 in the morning the mission awakes to it (da dee da da dee da da dee da-sukóla sukóla sukóla-wash wash wash). Often when her husband is in the jungle, Mrs. Carrington beats out a quick tattoo to summon him back to lunch (da da da da dee dee da dee . . . bosongo olimo konda...
Crocodile & Leopard. How accurate is drum talk? Wrote Correspondent Shenker: "The drums of the village three miles across the river are heard regularly at the Yalemba mission, and the native pupils are always coming up to Carrington with messages from the other side. One reported: 'My father is on the other side with food.' How did he know? 'The drum said so.' Just to make sure, Shenker asked Carrington to station two drummers 200 yards apart and put them to a severe test: "The sentence I dictated to Carrington was: 'The Giants beat the Indians...