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...Road Hill House murder became a national obsession. It seemed to reveal some sick secret truth lurking in the hushed, upholstered heart of the Victorian household; Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone, the first English detective novel, is based on it. The task of solving the crime fell to one Jonathan Whicher, the son of a gardener and one of the original eight London policemen selected to join a new, élite unit of detectives headquartered at Scotland Yard. Kate Summerscale's THE SUSPICIONS OF MR. WHICHER (Walker; 360 pages) is not just a dark, vicious true-crime story...
...Oklahoma City, McVeigh and Nichols did, with premeditation and malice aforethought, cause the killing of the following persons engaged in the performance of official duties as law enforcement officers: Mickey Bryant Maroney, special agent, U.S. Secret Service; Donald R. Leonard, special agent, U.S. Secret Service; Alan Gerald Whicher, assistant special agent in charge, U.S. Secret Service; Cynthia Lynn Campbell-Brown Special, special agent, U.S. Secret Service; Kenneth Glenn McCullough, special agent, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; Paul Douglas Ice, special agent, U.S. Customs Service; Claude Arthur Medearis, special agent, U.S. Customs Service; and Paul G. Broxterman, special agent, Department of Housing...
...horseshoes with them. It was then that the news came out of Oklahoma City. Bush flipped the television coverage off and on, called his Secret Service detail chief for word from the disaster area. As it turned out, one victim had once been part of the Bush entourage: Al Whicher, a Secret Service man. Bush wrote in his letter, "He was no Nazi. He was a kind man, a loving parent, a man dedicated to serving his country -- and serve it well...
...spirit of give-and-take that most are worked out with assistance from mediation and reconciliation centers. The Los Angeles Conciliation Court and other divorce counselors estimate that 15% to 20% of their cases now end in joint custody. That percentage is likely to grow. Predicts Susan Whicher, a Boulder, Colo., lawyer who heads the American Bar Association's special committee on joint custody: "Legally it's terrifying for a lot of lawyers and judges, but by the end of the 1980s it will be the rule rather than the exception...
Free Love & Bolshevism. He introduced its first undergraduate course in social science, injected large doses of philosophy into the curriculum. He brought in such men as Poet Robert Frost, Author Stark Young and Critic George Whicher. But in trying to reconstruct the college, he infuriated many oldtimers on the faculty. He also irritated his trustees by completely disassociating himself from fundraising. Finally, in one of the most publicized academic uproars of the time, he was forced to hand in his resignation in 1923. That commencement, 13 students flatly refused to accept their degrees, and eight professors and associate professors quit...