Bye, Bettie

"The Notorious" Bettie Page died the other day, age 85.

Like so many others -- you knew about Stepin Fetchit and Gloria Swanson already, didn't you? -- she had a close Key West connection.

"In 1959," said the obit, "she was lying on a sea wall in Key West when she saw a church with a white neon cross on top. She walked inside and became a born-again Christian."

Not the usual trip here, but not much about her was usual.

Oh, there was a northern Southernmost connection, too: Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, Page's home state, launched a congressional investigation of her work and character.