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There's an aside in Carey McWilliam's "Southern California: An Island on the Land" (1946):

"Some years ago a leading citizen of Pasadena was arrested on the morning of the day when he was have to received an honorary degree from a local college. Along with seven or eight other other leading lights of Pasadena, all men of advanced years, he was charged with having engaged in a charming assortment of sexual perversions with school-aged youngsters. He later committed suicide. The prompt and efficient manner in which this particular scandal was buried under an avalanche of dense silence remains one of the most remarkable accomplishments of the remarkable Los Angeles press." Chapter XV "The Los Angeles Archipelago", 5. "The Crown of the Valley"


Anyone got the story on that, or is it really lost down the memory hole? I've never had any luck trying to research it.