Word: osteopaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First, of course, was the continuation of the Profumo Case. In Marylebone Magistrates' Court, Osteopath Stephen Ward, mentor of Christine Keeler and friend of disgraced War Secretary John Profumo, was ordered to stand trial on seven charges of procuring, arranging abortions, and living off the earnings of prostitution. By the close of the three-day hearing, Magistrate Leo Gradwell had permitted numerous witnesses to testify without revealing their identity, even allowed one witness to leave the courtroom shrouded in a topcoat...
...after him. During the three weeks Stephen Ward was in jail, John Profumo had been disgraced, Evgeny Ivanov expelled from the Communist Party and packed off to a Russian mental hospital, and Christine Keeler successfully screen-tested for the proposed "dramatized documentary" of her life. But last week Artist-Osteopath Ward, the fourth member of what Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson eloquently called "this dingy quadrilateral," at last held center stage...
Motive Within. She is an osteopath's daughter from Kirksville, Mo., who was raised in Chicago and did her first play with a Methodist church group. "I'm going to do this for the rest of my life," she decided, and enrolled at Chicago's Goodman Memorial Theater School of Drama. When she graduated, she formed a summer stock company, which she and several schoolmates kept running for a remarkable four years. She taught drama one year at De Paul University and worked with a rep group called the Valentine Traveling Players, building for herself a versatility...
...mentor, Osteopath Stephen Ward, he was in jail, bound for trial on charges of living on prostitutes' earnings. The evidence, it was widely suspected, would prove damaging to a great many people...
...immediate future, Stephen Ward will do his explaining in court. At week's end Scotland Yard plucked the osteopath from his white Jaguar sports car and jailed him on charges of violating Britain's Sexual Offenses Act by "living wholly or in part on the earnings of prostitution...