Johnston’s Love Story connection sounds more like a cocktail-party anecdote
Reporters and pundits, many of whom did not appear to read the book, credited David Johnston as the inspiration for a fictional character in the most popular novel of his generation, Love Story.
Governor General-designate David Johnston says his "passion" as a hockey star at Harvard in 1963 inspired a character in Love Story. Media broadcast the claim and even embellished it. The Monarchist League enthused it was Johnston's "principal claim to fame" among Canadians.
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