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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...
There is another, more subtle, more insidious excuse for not worrying about Avatar's fate. "It's a bad magazine, the writing is poor, and there's that kook who thinks he's God in it." To begin with Avatar has improved immensely and personally I really like the rag. Go into the University Restaurant some afternoon when a new issue has just come out. Everyone has a copy and many a professor has been caught chuckling over its refreshing tone...
...assault left the First Lady speechless. But not the usually jovial wife of New Jersey's Governor Richard Hughes, mother of eleven. "Anybody who is taking pot just because there is a war in Viet Nam is some kind of kook," shot back Mrs. Hughes, whose first husband died in World...
...Welding Co. in Newark, whose sign "You specify it; we fabricate it" he had seen while driving to and from his home in South Orange, N.J. "We were a little bit surprised at first," says William Schmidt, the welding company's president. "I wondered, is this guy a kook...
Compulsive Kook. Offstage, the Smothers Brothers are like the two halves of a split personality. Dick is the stable, soft-spoken father of three who would like to retire and tinker with his fleet of seven cars. Tom is a walking jangle of exposed nerve ends. He has an ulcer and has divorced his wife. He arrives at the studio on a motorcycle toting a kiddie's lunch box filled with avocado sandwiches, which he munches during rehearsals to placate his ulcer. He is a compulsive kook, strolls into a nightclub and begins waiting on tables, tools around town...