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...plenty to tell. A former assistant to Hays recalls that when Liz Ray started working in the Congressman's office in the spring of 1974, she was a disaster: unable to type twelve words a minute, forgetting the names of callers, snapping at people. Soon she was eased out of formal duties-but not off the payroll. After that, her contacts with the office were mostly private phone calls to Hays; they were wild, frequent, and insulting to the staff. Typically, she would bark: "Let me talk to him!" The staff knew that the calls were...
...draft of her forthcoming "novel" (see box next page), Ray tells a similar story. In her account, she sicced Anderson onto a Congressman because she was mad at him for exploiting her. Remorseful, she confessed to the Congressman. Instead of being enraged, he saw this as a way of trapping Anderson. He set Liz up with the recorder, got her to entice the newsman into making compromising statements, then played them back to Anderson. At least in the draft of the book, Anderson called off his investigators. The real Anderson story played out differently: he wrote several items criticizing Gray...
...will handle this," Albert had told party lieutenants. But Albert was in an awkward position. The Speaker himself had often been seen accompanying young women around town. Moreover, his home district back in Oklahoma was in an uproar over TIME'S story (June 7) about reports that Liz Ray and other women had participated in orgies in the "Board of Education," a Capitol hideaway assigned to Albert. Said Albert: "If that's true, I've never heard of it, and I don't believe...
Although it is a dreadful piece of soft porn-so repetitive in its acts that it makes sex boring-Elizabeth Ray's autobiographical novel, which Dell Publishing Co. is rushing out next month, is certain to cause a great guessing game in Washington. She contends that the events and personalities in the paperback are real, but for obvious legal reasons she has changed the names.* So who are they? The latest manuscript includes...
...name that is not changed: Delia Smith Allen, her grandmother, to whose memory Ray dedicates her book...