Brown-eyed, heavy-jowled Robert Boothby, M.P., is a natty and exuberant fellow who used to be Winston Churchill's private secretary and was expected to go far in politics. But Bob Boothby has sometimes been a little careless about the means he employs to make money. Once he made speeches in the House of Commons plugging a vitamin product in which he had been financially interested. When Britons learned that he had severed his vitamin connections they forgave the irregularity.
Last week light-living Bob Boothby was found to have been guilty of more serious financial carelessness....