Don Lundry contacted me about the biography and pemitted me to post his anecdote about meeting Sally Rand at MidAmeriCon in 1976:

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At the 1976 Worldcon honoring Heinlein, I was assisting at the Guest of Honor speech. While waiting for people to start arriving, I was approached by a well groomed sixty-ish woman who very quietly asked where the speech was being held. She was neatly (and modestly) dressed and looked like almost anyone’s grandmother. I told here the room was being set up and asked if I could help her. She said that she understood there might be a special seat for her as she was there at the express invitation of Mr. Heinlein. I had no idea of any such arrangements, but escorted her to the front row of the auditorium.

Later I asked who she was and was told that it was Sally Rand and that she and Heinlein had gone to school together. I was very surprised, since even I (in my youth) had heard of Sally Rand. When I told my father about it later, he was very impressed since he had been a cabdriver inn Chicago around the time of her fame (or notoriety)!

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And the following year Lundry was chair of Suncon in Florida. See what meeting Sally Rand can do for a guy!?