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60 Minutes‘ Morley Safer Doesn’t Want His Private Club To Create ‘Special Facilities For Transexuals’

What will be next?. Disassociation with clubs that do not cater to vegans on their menus? Kosher dining rooms? Special facilities for nudists and transsexuals? Abolition of ‘Centurion’ to describe our members, given that the term is, according to the OED, derived from the all-male Roman army?

—Morley Safer, the 60 Minutes presenter, in a leaked email exchange where be battles to keep the exclusive Century Association in Manhattan (to which be belongs) from severing ties with cousin club in London, the Garrick, which permits women only when accompanied by men [via]

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