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Thus begins the autobiography of Christine Keeler, whom some may remember as the call girl in the scandal that forced John Profumo to resign as Britain's Minister of War in 1963. She has yet to find a book publisher, but her story is now unfolding in eight installments in the News of the World, a Sunday broadsheet that has built a circulation of 6,500,000 by emphasizing the news of the bedroom. Britons who do not like News of the World ignore it -or pretend to. But its regurgitation of the Profumo affair is provoking outraged cries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memoirs: The Perils of Christine | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

...Simpson, if he had wanted to; but for him as King Edward VIII to marry a divorced American woman was unthinkable. Class resentment and sexual envy were aroused in the British public by the disclosure that the Tory Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, had fraternized with Christine Keeler and assorted other shady characters. But when Profumo lied about the matter to the House of Commons, he destroyed his standing with the Establishment as well. Such flouting of tradition brought about his own resignation and contributed to a Labor victory the following year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: PUBLIC FIGURES AND THEIR PRIVATE LIVES | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

Dames at Sea--An ingenious musical spoof of the kind of entertainment Busby Berkeley, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler and Joan Blondell used to provide during the depression: a lot of fun. The cast includes a lovely girl with a weird voice who goes by the name of Bernadette Peters. At the BOUWERIE LAND THEATRE, 330 Bowery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spring in New York: The Plays to See | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...individual competition, David Arnold of Winthrop was the pacesetter. Dunster's Rockey Keeler, Eliot's David Grant and Steve Clark, and Leverett's Mike Egan rounded out the top five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strauss Cup Race Tightens Up With Winthrop, Quincy Victories | 3/6/1969 | See Source »

Last November the contingent successfully defended its unblemished record in intercollegiate competition by defeating a strong Columbia team at the Brandeis Invitational Knockout Tournament. The members of that squad playing together for the last time are: Don Bloch, Peter Y. Connor, Lawrence A. Darby, Emmett Keeler, John V. Lindsey II, and Mark Thompson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undefeated Harvard Bridge Team Will Try to Retire Coon Trophy | 2/24/1968 | See Source »

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