Word: warded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Christine's sponsor was a social gadabout named Stephen Ward. 43, an artist and osteopath who lives in a Thames-side summer house on Viscount Astor's famed estate at Cliveden. "I know a lot of very important people and am often received in some of the most famous homes in the country," says Ward. "Sir Winston Churchill and many leading politicians have been among my patients; Prince Philip, the Duke and Duchess of Kent and Lord Snowdon have been among my sitters." Ward also had a genuine interest in young girls of humble origin. "I like pretty...
Chain of Events. Ward arranged an unsuccessful screen test for Christine with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., introduced her to a naval attache at the Russian embassy, and to a "senior naval officer of the American fleet who sorted out her problems." But Christine, said Ward, also had "occasional foolhardy adventures in the completely different world of colored men." One day last December, Johnnie Edgecombe, Christine's West Indian lover, showed up outside Ward's West End flat, where Christine was visiting, and fired several shots at the door. Police carted Johnnie away and tagged Christine to be the principal...
...came a peculiar chain of events. Christine Keeler failed to show up for Johnnie's trial, and the leading newspapers hinted that Christine feared cross-examination about her private life and had dropped out of sight to protect her prominent friends. On top of that came news that Ward's Cliveden house, the scene of many a fashionable party and fortuitous introduction, had been ransacked; Ward's letters were stolen, and scattered all over the floor were a nude photograph of Christine and a slew of pornographic pictures, which Ward claimed were not his. In Whitehall...
...work in Stratton's office, Daley picked up additional revenue for Chicago that now runs about $24 million a year. Stratton also agreed to help push through long-needed legislation to give Chicago home rule. With this power in his pocket, Daley could extract from the ward dukes of his city council a large measure of subservience; he had control over contracts, budgets and jobs. After a series of battles in the council, Daley succeeded in transforming the aldermen into a civic chowder-and-marching society...
...ignored during most of his lifetime, then lionized, and then ignored again. Since his death at 77 in a psychopathic ward in Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, interest in him has several times waxed and waned. Last week Manhattan's Balin-Traube Gallery, displaying 36 of his works, posed the question again: What is Eilshemius' place in American...