Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outfit would stand up and accept an award for running an airline under "extremely sensitive political conditions"? Yet there was George Doole Jr., Air America's managing director, smiling like a Rotarian and receiving a citation for the line's achievements from Washington's Aero Club at a luncheon in the capital last week. After the luncheon, Doole, a former Pan American Airways pilot, shrugged off newsmen's questions about his company's activities. "One wouldn't know," he said, if any particular contract was actually for the CIA. "If that were the case...
...Nashville, Tenn., in 1964, William and Dorothy Redmond read a magazine ad for a North Carolina correspondence club called "Identification" that appealed to "broadminded persons." Curious to find out whether they filled the bill, the Redmonds answered the ad and learned that the club's services included developing films of nude members and introducing like-minded couples. The Redmonds photographed each other, took shots of their genitalia, shipped the undeveloped film to North Carolina, and got back eleven assorted prints and negatives...
Personal Use. Soon after the pictures arrived, U.S. postal inspectors raided Identification and seized the club's membership lists. The Redmonds were arrested and charged with having tainted the mails, in violation of a federal anti-obscenity statute that carries a maximum rap of five years and $5,000 for the first offense. Found guilty, William was sentenced to nine months in prison, Dorothy...
...England's good old days, the tavern, like the inn, was a refuge for travelers, providing bed, board, a warming fire and flagons of wine. For Samuel Johnson, who according to legend used the Cheshire Cheese as both club and office, there was "nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced." In the shadow of the tavern there was also the more modest "publick house," whose clients came mainly from the neighborhood. Divided into a public and private saloon bar, the pub usually included a snack bar, called a "snuggery," selling such...
Besides Mayer and Babe, HDC members participating in the project include Peter A. Jaszi '68, a member of the HDC executive committee who will act as producer, Honor, Moore '67, president of the HDC, and Francine L. Stone '68' secretary of the club...