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...Profumo scandal was re-examined last week from the viewpoint of applied political science and the class...
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...
...able under British prison regulations to get a cell with a soft bed, a carpet on the concrete floor, curtains on the barred window, an armchair, and another prisoner to clean up 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...
...have never considered myself a call girl or prostitute." Sometimes when Ward "complained about having no money," Christine testified, she would simply say: "I'll go see Jim." He was a wealthy businessman, who had paid her "hundreds of pounds," but the name might well have been Jack. Profumo also gave her money, "but not for myself; it was for my mother...
PRINCE PHILIP AND THE PROFUMO SCANDAL, shrieked the tabloid London Daily Mirror from the top of Page One. The astounding suggestion that British royalty was involved in the shameful mess was almost a guarantee that the paper would be bought and the story read to the last word. The trick was a familiar one to British readers, wise to the ways of the brazen innuendo, the veiled hints of Fleet Street's popular press. Hemmed in by archaic libel laws, the scandal sheets are almost always read for the information they do not actually print-the stories that...