An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo (57 page)

14
. Joyce Robinson, ‘Speaking from Experience’,
Twentieth Century
, 172 (summer 1963), pp. 85, 86, 88.

15
. Celia Imrie,
The Happy Hoofer
(2011), p. 13; Peter Scott, ‘A Clinical Contribution’, in Sir Norwood East (ed.),
The Roots of Crime
(1954), pp. 56, 66.

16
. Conversations with Dr Ann Dally; Mann,
Fifties Mystique
, pp. 162–64; Paul Addison,
No Turning Back
(2010), p. 96; W. H. Allchin, ‘Looking for Trouble’,
Twentieth Century
, 169 (winter 1962), p. 53.

17
. Lord Ailwyn, House of Lords debates, 1 May 1961, Vol. 230, col 1091.

18
. Cecil King, ‘The Dangers when Sex is Mistaken for Love’,
The Times
, 12 April 1969, p. 9e; Lord Jenkin of Roding, 1979, quoted Addison,
No Turning Back
, p. 356.

19
. Mann,
Fifties Mystique
, p. 99; Marjorie Proops, ‘Well, Who Cares What the Men Think?’,
Daily Mirror
, 23 September 1964, p. 9.

20
. Isabel Quigly, ‘Filthy Pictures’,
Spectator
, 15 April 1960, pp. 544, 546.

21
. ‘Pamela Green’,
Daily Telegraph
, 17 May 2010.

22
. Denis Thomas, ‘The Daily Dynamic’,
Truth
, 1 March 1957, 157, p. 226; Damon Wise,
Come by Sunday: the Fabulous, Ruined Life of Diana Dors
(1998), p. 63.

23
. Wise,
Come by Sunday
, p. 68; Green,
Rachman
, p. 71; Bloom,
No Sin
, pp. 61–2.

24
. Diana Dors, ‘Strip Poker’,
News of the World
, 31 January 1960, p. 4.

25
. Diana Dors, ‘Wild and Wicked – Secret of the Mirror in the Guest Room’,
News of the World
, 24 January 1960, p. 5.

26
. Geoffrey Willans,
Down With Skool!
(1959), p. 29.

27
. Robert Hancock, ‘41:19:36’,
Spectator
(9 August 1957), pp. 184–85; ‘“Women of the Year” Contrasts’,
The Times
, 28 September 1956, p. 6b; ‘Our London Correspondence’,
Manchester Guardian
, 28 September 1956, p. 8.

28
. Peter Evans, ‘Mink is My Security’,
Daily Express
, 19 March 1963, p. 17.

29
. Angela Thirkell,
Close Quarters
(1958), pp. 32–3; Elizabeth Taylor,
In a Summer Season
(1961), pp. 139–40; Ralph Harris, ‘A Competitive Market’,
The Times
, 22 July 1964, p. 11e.

30
. Bloom,
No Sin
, pp. 104–05.

31
. Testimony of Harvey Holford, 26 March 1963, NA ASSI 36/387; ‘The Blue Gardenia Trial: Holford – Christine – Bloom’,
Daily Express
, 22 March 1963, pp. 8–9.

32
. Testimony of Harvey Holford, 26 March 1963, NA ASSI 36/387.

33
. ‘Judges Reject Holford Plea for a Jury’,
Daily Express
, 5 March 1963, p. 9.

34
. ‘The Blue Gardenia Trial: At the Villa’,
Daily Express
, 23 March 1963, p. 9.

35
. ‘The Blue Gardenia Trial: Holford – Christine – Bloom’,
Daily Express
, 22 March 1963, pp. 8–9; ‘The Blue Gardenia Trial: At the Villa’; ‘The Blue Gardenia Trial: The Last Letter’,
Daily Express
, 26 March 1963, p. 10.

36
. ‘Holford in the Box’,
Daily Express
, 27 March 1963, p. 6.

37
. Arnold Latcham and Tom Mangold, ‘Three Years for Holford’,
Daily Express
, 30 March 1963, p. 1; Arnold Latcham and Tom Mangold, ‘Summing Up’,
Daily Express
, 30 March 1963, p. 2; Arnold Latcham, ‘No Full Acquittal’,
Daily Express
, 29 March 1963, p. 6.

38
. J. H. Walker to Sir Austin Strutt, 23 September 1953, NA HO 302/10.

39
Paul Johnson, ‘Are Virgins Obsolete?’,
New Statesman
, 4 January 1963, p. 9; ‘This England’,
New Statesman
, 7 December 1962, p. 821.

40
. ‘Oh, Marje! The Easter Brides have never had a word in their ears at the bedroom door like this!’,
Sunday Mirror
, 14 April 1963, p. 13; Marjorie Proops, ‘Giving the lie to “love makes the world go round”’,
Sunday Mirror
, 7 July 1963, p. 13.

41
. ‘Night Life at the Grotto’,
News of the World
, 18 November 1962, p. 4.

42
. Keeler,
Scandal!
, pp. 27–8.

43
. Jean Dawnay,
Model Girl
(1956), pp. 82, 174, 198.

44
. Anthony Powell,
At Lady Molly’s
(1957), p. 182.

45
. Paul Willetts,
Members Only: The Life and Times of Paul Raymond
(2010), p. 69.

46
. ‘Deep Freeze’,
Sunday Pictorial
, 24 February 1957, p. 7.

47
. Clive Irving, Ron Hall and Jeremy Wallington,
Scandal ’63
(1963), p. 8.

48
. ‘David Murray’,
Daily Telegraph
, 20 October 2004.

49
. Knightley and Kennedy,
Affair of State
, pp. 56–7.

50
. Knightley and Kennedy,
Affair of State
, p. 62.

51
. Profumo,
House Down,
p. 163; private information, 12 March 2012.

52
. Sybille Bedford, ‘The Worst We Can Do: A Concise Account of the Trial of Dr Stephen Ward’, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, folio 9.

53
. Penelope Fitzgerald,
Human Voices
(1980), chapter 8, p. 224; Rice-Davies,
Mandy
, pp. 7, 18.

54
. Knightley and Kennedy,
Affair of State
, p. 204.

55
. Keeler,
Truth at Last
, p. 58; Keeler,
Secrets and Lies
, pp. 61–2.

Six: Landlords

1
.
Muriel Spark,
The Girls of Slender Means
(1963), chapter 1 (Everyman, 2004), p. 129.

2
.
Robert Irwin,
Memoirs of a Dervish
(2011), p. 6.

3
.
Isabel Quigly, ‘Kindest Cuts’,
Spectator
, 8 April 1957, p. 177; London’s sexual ecology is explored in Frank Mort,
Capital Affairs: London and the Making of the Permissive Society
(2010), although this book’s bias, especially apropos the Profumo Affair, is deplorable:
see Richard Davenport-Hines, ‘Class Action’,
Times Literary Supplement
, 20–27 August 2010, pp. 11–12.

4
.
Richard Hornsey,
The Spiv and the Architect: Unruly Life in Postwar London
(2010), pp. 14–15, 46–7, 71–4; Judith Walkowitz,
Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London
(2012), pp. 289–91.

5
.
Wilfred Fienburgh, ‘The Politics of Welfare’,
Twentieth Century
, 158 (July 1955), p. 29.

6
.
Charles Gordon,
The Two Tycoons
(1984), p. 17.

7
.
Sid Chaplin, ‘My Money – and My Life’,
Twentieth Century
, 172 (winter 1963), p. 41.

8
.
Oliver Marriott,
The Property Boom
(1967), pp. 28, 271.

9
.
Marriott,
Property Boom
, p. 155.

10
. Marriott,
Property Boom
, pp. 156–57.

11
. Anthony Sampson,
Anatomy of Britain
(1962), p. 499; William Hickey, ‘Charles Forte is Now the Squire’,
Daily Express
, 22 March 1963, p. 3.

12
. Gordon,
Two Tycoons
, p. 5; Lord Weidenfeld,
Remembering My Good Friends
(1995), p. 166.

13
. Gordon,
Two Tycoons
, p. 5; private information.

14
. Raphael,
Personal Terms
, p. 93.

15
. Stacey,
Tradition and Change
, pp. 27–8, 31.

16
. Chief Inspector Harold Hawkyard, ‘Strictly Confidential’ report of 18 September 1943, NA MEPO 3/2657; George Titman, memoranda ‘Sourire de Paris’, 15 January and 22 February 1934, Lord Chamberlain’s correspondence, British Library; ‘Theatre Officials Fined’,
The Times
, 22 February 1934, p. 16e; ‘West End Revue Censored’,
Daily Telegraph
, 22 February 1934; ‘Vulgarity in a Revue’,
Courier-Mail
(Brisbane), 23 February 1934, p. 13h. On the Prince of Wales Theatre, see also Walkowitz,
Nights Out
, p. 273; Graham Greene, ‘The Theatre’,
Spectator
, 7 March, 6 June and 27 June 1941, pp. 251, 677, 771.

17
. ‘London Casino to Reopen’,
The Times
, 21 February 1939, p. 12c; Sir William Morren, Chief Constable of Edinburgh, to Sir Norman Kendal, Assistant Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, 26 August 1943, and Kendal to Morren, 27 August 1943, NA MEPO 3/2657; Matthew Sweet,
West End Front
(2011), p. 79.