People: Sep. 24, 1965

First he had the beastly taste to turn the family's ancestral Woburn Abbey into a ducal Disneyland, with a zoo and souvenir stands. Now Britain's merrily huckstering peer, John, Duke of Bedford, 48, is peddling The Duke of Bedford's Book of Snobs, a 142-page guide to gate crashing the Establishment, in which he details his rules on the names one should have (Rodney is "not so good today"); on accents ("The military bark is the safest bet"); on dress (suits may be elegantly aged by "filling the pockets with stones and hanging them out...

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