who the heck is/was Duncan Sandys?
Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Sun Mar 3 14:16:49 CST 2013
Mike Jing's thread's purpose being translation, this point which I was
wondering about is probably at best a sidebar:
some pictures:
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp05265/edwin-duncan-sandys-baron-duncan-sandys
info after the fact about the sex scandal which is one of his main
claims to fame, and which perhaps Slothrop is imagining (the text
suggests) he will find, as he makes his "Commando Raid""
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/aug/10/sarahhall (would seem to be
temporally non-linear (1963))
It was a scandal that rocked the nation: an aristocratic beauty was
photographed performing fellatio on a lover, while shots of another
man gratifying himself were unearthed in her boudoir.
The sexually explicit Polaroid snaps proved central in the 1963
divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, and became part of a
government investigation.
The duchess's reputation was ruined, but her lover escaped blameless,
his identity preserved for almost 40 years by the camera cutting him
off at the neck.
Tonight, the mystery of the "headless man" - or rather headless men -
is resolved for the first time, with new evidence identifying not one,
but two, lovers.
The man in the more notorious shot is unveiled as Duncan Sandys, then
a cabinet minister, and his masturbating rival as Douglas Fairbanks
Jr, the Hollywood legend who dallied with Marlene Dietrich and married
Joan Crawford.
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