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Students by and large saw him as a jet-setter, "an eccentric Southern aristocrat" always "flying off the Rio or something." But Simpson doesn't remember Spiro making outrageous boasts. When newspapers reported Pavlovich as having a silver-blue Mercedes Benz, wearing three-piece suits to class and bragging of a Rhodes Scholarship, Simpson was surprised. When he saw Pavlovich, he says, "He drove a blue Plymouth and wore plain corduroy coats. He said he had studied in England, but not on a Rhodes...
Simpson recalls that Spiro let it slip he had been to Harvard before, and that his name was now different from what it once had been. "He said he hadn't wanted to be associated with Agnew." Why he chose Jason Scott Cord still remains a mystery. Pavlovich told a friend after his arrest that if the newspapers thought the name had come from Jonas Scott Cord, a villain in Harold Robbins The Carpetbaggers, "that was fine," but untrue. No matter what the name, however--nobody suspected...
Vagts, who administers the joint law business program in which Spiro was enrolled during his second time here, says he had "a vague feeling of familiarity" when he saw Pavlovich at a cocktail party, but thought he must just be another "old timer." After the arrest, Vagts was amazed that Pavlovich had enrolled for a second time in his seminar. "A death wish," Vagts calls...
Apparently Spiro was not worried. During his first or second year, Monette joined him in Cambridge. She was introduced as his wife, Monica Cord from New York, and although few remember her from that period, two recipes by a "Monica Cord" appeared in the Business School Wives Association's 1974-1975 cookbook...
...knows whether or not Spiro was feeding her lines he remembered from his own Business School days. The two were spotted together early in the year at Lincoln's Inn parties and crashing restricted Law School Forum receptions, but later the pair reportedly split up and went out with other students...