My grand Aunt Agnes (born 1894) was a guest in the Chappaquitc (sp) the night when the drunk Teddy left Mary Jo to drown. Her key observation was how the Inn was taken over by guys in suits.
Those were the good old days when damage could be minimized with the lack of speed of the 60s news media technology, and cash. Put Mary Jo’s death in 2009, and some bystander would have caught the entire thing on his cell phone video recorder, posted it on youtube and blogged by noon the next day, not to mention someone else would have recorded them making out at the party and then leaving together, and another individual would have recorded Ted’s frantic cell phone call to his brother, where we could all hear him crying and begging for help.