The big questions on Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and the allegedly ‘all-White’ beach club

Diversity, of course, has made scant inroads on the Newport of Bailey’s Beach, whose membership profile might be defined less by who people are than what they are not. ”Jewish, yes,” Audrey Oswald, a lifelong member, replied when asked about the club’s demographic composition. ”Blacks, not really,” Ms. Oswald added, although that is not altogether the case. Mrs. [Eileen] Slocum, by all accounts the reigning dowager of the resort, has grown grandchildren who sometimes visit the beach and who are biracial, the offspring of her daughter Beryl’s marriage to Adam Clayton Powell III.