THE CAPITAL: Virtue's Reward

Since last year's Senate inquiry into his habits of dispensing various favors in return for an occasional home-freeze unit, Major General Harry Hawkins Vaughan, court jester and military aide to the President, has led a relatively quiet life. He has also curbed his old habit of making such public observations as "Winston Churchill is a garrulous old gentleman." Last week, just as people were beginning to ask "Whatever became of Harry Vaughan?", he reappeared briefly upon the scene.

For obvious reasons, General Vaughan was a leading candidate for elimination from the Social List of Washington, D.C. In last week's...

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