People and Events

When the Friars Club in Beverly Hills inducted attorney Gloria Allred as its first woman member last May, it may or may not have realized the ramifications.

It seems she tried to have lunch at the New York City Friars Club, where her Beverly Hills membership card did not impress the management. Club executive director Jean-Pierre Trebot informed her she would have to eat elsewhere.

She asked if it was because she is a woman. Mr. Trebot, she reports, said, “Yes.”

Perhaps he was unaware of Ms. Allred’s feelings in such matters. On Friday, the feminist attorney named the New York club in a sex discrimination complaint she filed with the New York City Commission on Human Rights.

“This sex segregationist practice is humiliating and treats me not only as a second-class citizen, but also as a second-class member of the California Friars Club,” Allred contended.

She pointed out she pays the same dues as a man.

Trebot says the New York Friars are considering changing their by-laws to admit women and that it is possible she may lunch there by next spring.

Allred chose not to wait.

As they have for the last seven years, about 20 Civil Air Patrol members took off Friday morning in eleven planes for the Baja California town of Santa Rosalia with 1,200 pounds of food, clothing and toys for the poor.

One of the planes, however, got only as far as the Rose Bowl.

Roy Vaughn, 54, of Sylmar, said his Piper Cherokee “lost an oil line” after takeoff from Whiteman Air Park in Pacoima with fellow CAPer Fernando Roiz aboard. He had to make a 180 turn over Pasadena and return to base.

Thus his 135 pounds of clothing and toys did not make it to the old Mexican copper mining town on the Gulf of California. It was Vaughn’s first time on the annual airlift.

Although the charity flight is not an official CAP activity, the fliers belong to the patrol’s Senior Squadron 18. They also left from Van Nuys Airport and from Santa Barbara.

“It’s what we do after Thanksgiving every year,” Lt. Don Greif said. “We try to give someone else Thanksgiving.”

Bozo the Clown gave out his “Boza Awards” on Friday.

Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos won one for lifetime achievement.

Joan Collins won in the show business category for her prolonged divorce battle with Peter Holm. Dan Rather was the winner in the journalism category for walking off the news set when some tennis playoffs went overtime.

There were others: Jim and Tammy Bakker, Gary Hart, Donna Rice . . .

You get the idea.

It was only a few days ago that Bozo held his third annual No Bozos Day, in which he customarily advises his young television fans to avoid smoking, drinking and drugs.

This time he added casual sex.

The Cancerettes, those dancing cigarette packages that will be seen once again on Sunday in Pasadena’s annual Doo Dah Parade, are not zealots on the subject of smoking, insists their founder, Gail Burns.

“We’re not talking anti-smoking,” says Burns. “We’re essentially talking truth in advertising. There are people within our group who smoke. We do not discriminate.”

Burns, a part-time bookkeeper for the Southwest Museum and the mother of children 18 and 20 years old, says she started the Cancerettes about eight years ago when she was associated with the American Lung Assn. because “I wanted a comical approach to something that I saw as a very serious problem.”

Obviously, she says, the Cancerettes point up the dangers of smoking, but they do not want be “fanatics” in their references to individual smokers.

This year, Burns says, the group is being billed as “Cancerettes for Precedence,” a declaration of candidacy for some office that remains obscure. “We feel we have a good chance of being elected,” she says. “We’ve been in the public eye this long without a hint of scandal.”