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Before starting work, Rumpole fortifies himself with a full English breakfast at the Tastee Bite, a place of Formica-topped tables, fried food and steaming tea urns. His young pupil Phillida Trant chose this venue to confide that she was pregnant, and Hilda's friend Dodo once popped in just as Rumpole was demonstrating manual strangulation on another lady pupil, Liz Probert. The Tastee Bite is fictional, but Bailey's Café, at 30 Old Bailey, is a good spot to sample the kind of fry-up Rumpole would have enjoyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sense of Place: London | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

...year-old white male who resides in Scituate, R.I., and did not specify whether he is a Harvard affiliate. The report also stated that a second vehicle parked up the street was found to have a smashed front passenger’s-side window. CPD spokesman Mark C. Trant said that while the department does not compile official crime statistics until the end of the year, the level of crime around Harvard has remained at its normal level for this time of the year. “People start targeting this area more often in the fall because students come...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cars Burglarized Near Quad Houses | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

Walt Hewlett, Harvard's leading on-trant the last two years, ran well of the pace and decided to drop out at the 21-mile mark "As long as I wasn't going anywhere," Hwelett said, "I didn't want to risk an injury by continuing after I got tried...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Japanese Runners Win Marathon But Harvard Also-Rans Also Run | 4/20/1966 | See Source »

Thurs., Sept. 10 Staccato (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Latest en trant in the shamus sweepstakes. John Cassavetes plays Johnny Staccato, the jazz pianist who gets his big kicks as a private eye. In The Naked Truth, Johnny straight ens out a bit of blackmail without missing a beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...blackmailer. Author Quentin is a skilled carpenter at knocking together a neat puzzle and in sending the reader haring off down a dozen false trails. But it is hard to be sympathetically involved with any of this yarn's not-very-winning people. The attractive character is Lieut. Trant of Homicide, who is "priestlike," gentle, almost sorrowful-and coldly aware of all the damaging facts the suspects are trying to hide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in Midsummer | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

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