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Consider David's first run-in with nasty white duplicity. At Pengard, an "integrated" Midwestern college, David manfully rejects the homosexual advances of Randy Clevenger, Virginia-born scion of "Southrun" aristocracy. Before anybody can say "tea and sodomy," David himself has been accused of perversion by the effete Dean of Men, whose name, for Pete's sake, is Merriweather Goodhue. Only by the intervention of a tough but noble leader named "Bull" Evans does the poor kid clear himself. Evans simply hires a private eye to prove that Dean Goodhue and Clevenger have been in, well, cahoots...
Died. Viscount Astor, 58, son of Virginia-born Lady Astor, Britain's first woman to sit in Parliament and hostess of the sparkling intellectual "Cliveden Set" at the family estate in the '30s, himself a onetime M.P., who rented a cottage to Osteopath Stephen Ward in 1956 and thereby spawned a demimonde that featured Call Girl Christine Keeler until it collapsed amid the Profumo scandal of 1963; of an apparent heart attack; in Nassau, the Bahamas...
...William F. McKee, 58, retired Air Force general, will become Federal Aviation Agency administrator, replacing undynamic Najeeb Halaby, who has resigned and plans to write a book called Washington Cockpit. Virginia-born, West Pointer "Bozo" McKee is little known to the civilian aviation industry, but made a name for himself in the Air Force as a management expert; he is the only non-aviator ever to be made a four-star Air Force general. McKee was Air Force Vice Chief of Staff before he retired last August to join the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
Down with Duds. In 1919, Virginia-born Nancy Astor became the first woman ever to sit in Britain's House of Commons. She shocked that hallowed chamber by describing her entrance into politics as "this downward career from home to House." Like many another politician, Winston Churchill refused to speak to the female fellow M.P. for several years, explained later that her presence in the traditionally male sanctum made him feel "as if a woman had come into my bathroom and I had only the sponge to defend myself." Retorted Lady Astor: "You are not handsome enough to have...
...Born. To William Waldorf, 3rd Viscount Astor, 56, son of Virginia-born Nancy Astor, who in 1963 made the family's Cliveden estate almost as famous for profumation as it was for pro-Munich politics before World War II, and Lady Astor, 33, former model Bronwen Pugh: their second child (his fourth), second daughter; at Cliveden...