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Lights Out. The alumni, for whom 40 rooms were reserved at St. Louis' Hotel Jefferson, ranged from Communist Robert Minor to elegant, man-about-Manhattan Herbert Bayard Swope. They rolled into St. Louis-on Pulitzer's money and no encouragement from the ODT-from all parts of the U.S. The P-D's No. 1 alumnus, aloof, astute Oliver Kirby ("O.K.") Bovard, 72, managing editor for 28 of the P-D's greatest years, was ill and sent regrets...
...looks in vain," says Bowers, "for any convincing evidence that Jefferson availed himself of fine ladies . . . but had he done so he would have been . . . reticent and discreet...
Except for a vague affair with a mysterious Belinda, whose importance in his life Bowers doubts, and his attempted seduction of a married woman, Jefferson's young manhood passed without romance known to history. His marriage to the young widow, Martha Skelton, was happy...
This lack of legends may be accounted for by the fact that Jefferson was more of an intellectual and less a man of action than perhaps any other American hero. His character was more complex, harder to classify than most. But as a youth he was not precocious or abnormal in the usual sense. He was tall, redheaded, a good horseman, a fiddle player, a hunter, youthfully fond of girls, dancing, cards and conversation. He youthfully spent too much money in his first year at William and Mary (playing cards and sowing his wild oats) and youthfully resolved...
Romance at 43. The closest Jefferson ever came to behaving with youthful indiscretion was at the age of 43, in his affair with Maria Cosway. At 22 this vivid, lovely, talented girl had married Richard Cosway, 39, a friend of the Prince of Wales and the most fashionable miniature painter in London. Maria was herself a painter of distinction, and apparently a virtuous woman, though gossips credited her with love affairs with the Prince of Wales, a singer, a painter, and the secretary of the Neapolitan ambassador...