Word: farr
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...FINIS FARR 300 pages. Little, Brown...
...does have to go back, Farr could do much worse than the L.A. jail, where he enjoyed a kind of celebrity status. Because the law requires the separation of civil and criminal offenders, Farr was put into a kind of isolation in the jail's hospital, where, unlike other prisoners, he was given a private room 8 ft. by 12 ft. It had no bars, just a small window in the door. Farr ate there alone, away from the common thieves and muggers. ("The food is good. Starchy, but plentiful and pretty good.") He could not take exercise with...
...Farr wore the same light blue denim shirt and dark denim pants as the 3,700 other inmates, but there the similarity ended. One of the senior jail officials came by frequently to chat. "He was a reader of Intellectual Digest," Farr said. "We would discuss how to run the jail. He's very serious about trying to treat his prisoners differently, because he believes in the innocent-until-proven-guilty thing...
...fact, Farr rarely lacked company, despite the nominal quota on visitors of six a week. There is no limit on journalistic interviews or conferences with lawyers, and since most of Farr's friends are newsmen or attorneys, he was frequently able to leave his small room and go to the visitors' area. Friends were even able to bring him mail that had been delivered to his home, a convenience denied most prisoners. An arrangement with the public library supplied him with as many books as he wanted, and again unlike other inmates, he was allowed to receive...
...have no bitterness against Older," Farr insists. Nonetheless, his life was disrupted, and may be again soon. Now 38 and divorced, Farr had been considering remarriage to his longtime girl friend, but that prospect has been relegated to limbo because of the uncertainty about his future. Despite the amenities of the jail, there was an obvious chafing. "The judge says, 'He's not even in jail, he's in the hospital,' " says Farr. "You could put this cell in the Waldorf-Astoria and it would still be jail...