Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came from Middlesex to sling hash at 17, and at 21 was the West End's most-called girl; John Profumo, 48, the able War Minister and man-about-Mayfair, whose virile charm proved something of a Tory asset after those homosexual spy scandals; and Dr. Stephen Ward, 43, a socialite osteopath (and son of the Anglican canon of Rochester Cathedral), who said he liked helping attractive girls of humble birth adapt to "the needs and stresses of modern living...
...Tories' top ranks: Harrow and Oxford, fine war record, brains, drive, and a beautiful wife, Movie Actress Valerie (Great Expectations) Hobson. Together, the Pro-fumos were weekending at Cliveden, famed country estate of Lord and Lady Astor, when they were introduced to Christine in 1961. Also present: Stephen Ward, who had a cottage on the place. Thereafter, Valerie stayed home while Jack visited Christine at Ward's flat in Wimpole Mews. What the War Minister never knew was that Christine had another regular visitor, Evgeny Ivanov, who was a Soviet naval attache in London. A round-eyed observer...
Meanwhile Stephen Ward's explanations filled the newspapers and TV screens. The affair, he protested, had given rise to "a whole train of rumors, and all sorts of people were mentioned, with the implication that I'd been trying to procure them for Miss Keeler." Despite his subsequent attempt to protect Profumo and the government, said Ward, he had reported Profumo's liaison to British intelligence when it was at its height in 1961. Said he: "I've almost had a nervous breakdown. It's a terrible dilemma. One didn't want to bitch...
Divorced. By Wilma Rudolph, 22, Olympic track star and world record holder: William Ward, 25, onetime also-ran half-miler at Tennessee State, where Wilma received her B.S. last week; after 17 months of marriage; in Nashville...
...good old Esso pump. Their drivers: Scotland's Jimmy Clark, 27, and the U.S.'s Dan Gurney, 32, veterans of the European Grand Prix circuit, greenhorns at the Brickyard. Their chances? "It's nice to see them in the race," said two-time winner Rodger Ward nearsightedly...