Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prince of ponces. For 56? a day, he was 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...
Handcuffed and wearing sunglasses, Ward stuck his tongue out at photographers as he was led into London's Marylebone Magistrates' Court for a hearing to decide whether his case should be referred to the Old Bailey for trial. The charge: eight counts of procuring, living off the earnings of prostitutes, running a brothel and arranging abortions. In his opening statement, Prosecutor Mervyn Griffith-Jones warned that the hearing would unfold a "somewhat sordid story." It was sordid all right-and more than somewhat...
...parade of girls-tall, short, blond, brunette, redheaded-took the stand. But, inevitably, the star witnesses were Christine Keeler and Marilyn ("Mandy") Rice-Davies. During Christine's testimony, Ward quietly sketched her from the dock. Christine said that between lovers of her own, she would stay platonically with Ward at his Wimpole Mews flat. "We were like brother and sister," she said, but fraternally, Ward kept her supplied with men. "My life used to revolve around Stephen from the moment I got up until the moment I went to bed," she said. "I thought I could never stand...
...Ward told her it was all right for a girl to sleep with a man for money as long as she did not get the "prostitute mentality." Though payment for services ranged up to $140, half of which usually went to Ward, she said: "I 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...
Miss X. Christine said that she took up modeling so that she could keep meeting girls to introduce to Ward. Often when she and Ward were out walking, "he used to tell me which girl he liked in a shop and say 'Go and get her.' " Christine, "the model,"*would introduce the girls to Ward under the guise that he was her brother or that he wanted to sketch them. Ward would then seduce the girls and later discuss their talents with Christine. "He used to say 'That was wonderful,' " she said...