🇺🇦 Scandal at a secretive men's club

AIR MAIL: Bohemian Grove's penny-pinchers; Gay Talese on Frank Sinatra; the "Winnie-the-Pooh" to Brian Jones to Airbnb pipeline; and more. Happy Sunday!

August 27, 2023 Issue N⁰ 215 You are not currently a paid member and have limited access to AIR MAIL. Subscribe today. Good Morning! At Bohemian Grove, the 150-year-old, ultra-exclusive, all-male campground on the Russian River, in Monte Rio, California, a recent lawsuit from three longtime valets alleges that they were chronically worked to the bone and under-compensated during the annual "Summer Encampment," a July bacchanal populated by 2,500 or so of the most powerful men in the nation—including, at one time or another, the likes of Henry Kissinger, Charles Schwab, IBM founder Thomas Watson Jr., and Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas. Read William D. Cohan's investigation into the shockingly stingy men's club to America's elite, and more of my favorite stories—Gay Talese recalls "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold"; Airbnb lists Winnie-the-Pooh's old house; Brigitte Bardot's favorite beach club lives on—in the newest issue of AIR MAIL. —Nathan King, Deputy Editor A Scandal in Bohemia At Bohemian Grove, one of America's oldest, most secretive men's clubs, the rich and powerful have long played hard—and made everyone else work longer and harder Getting Frank In an exclusive excerpt from his new memoir, New Journalism legend Gay Talese reveals how "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold"—considered the greatest magazine profile ever—came to be Bleak House Cotchford Farm, former home to a Rolling Stone and Winnie-the-Pooh, is now available to rent. But its blighted past may be difficult for some vacationers to ignore … Turning Back Time The colorful, throwaway timepiece of the 1980s—the Swatch—is back and in high demand, says Nicholas Foulkes Sunny Days and Wild Nights Épi Plage, a small beach club near St. Tropez, has been drawing the style set since the late 50s. Now under new ownership, the party rages on It's Complicated Daphne Merkin revisits the life of Eileen O'Shaugnessy, George Orwell's first wife, who abandoned her own ambitions to edit his work—all while dealing with his rampant misogyny and adultery Memo from Montauk With Labor Day fast approaching, take one last walk along the beach and savor our essential end-of-summer finds Read Now

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