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Wintle's War. He fought his superiors in World War II when they tried to fob him off with draft duties instead of action. "He became a little bit of a nuisance," admitted Field Marshal Sir Edmund Ironside. When France tottered, Wintle became exasperated at official in action; he called an airfield, told them he was speaking for the Air Ministry, and ordered a plane readied to fly him to Bordeaux. His plan: to get his French mili tary friends to fly the French air force out to Britain. Hauled up before an air commodore for this escapade, Wintle...
...sentimentality in favor of movement and daughter; Cyril Ritchard turned Captain Hook ( "the swiniest swine of them all") into a Pirate of Penzance with a fine mixture of cringe and gusto. Of the two sponsors (total payout: $450,000), Ford made palatable its light-touch commercials; RCA tried to fob off Vaughn Monroe in a fantasy of its own and suffered by contrast. After a look at the size of the audience (an estimated 65 million) NBC announced that it will stage a second production of Peter Pan at Christmastime...
...their daughters," says Thornton), his wife read Yeats and Maeterlinck for their beauty. Mr. Wilder was always fearful for his children's spiritual safety, and was forever lecturing them on how to defend themselves against a wicked world. "Now, dear boy," he would say, twirling his amethyst watch fob, "even if you are at a bishop's table and you are served wine, I want you inconspicuously to turn down the glass." ("He meant 'conspicuously,' " Thornton smiles...
...costs. Then, moving on to Paducah, Ky., the Stevenson party stopped off to visit "Angles,".home of Veep Alben Barkley, who served 140 fried chickens and eleven hams to his guests. During lunch at Angles, Stevenson was presented with a trophy of the 1892 presidential campaign-a watch-fob bearing the pictures of Democrat Grover Cleveland and his vice presidential running mate, Stevenson's grandfather. The giver, a Paducah lawyer, explained that he had had the watch fob for 60 years and he wanted Stevenson to keep it for another 60. "And when I get through with it." quipped...
...Gift of the Magi (0. Henry's most popular story) about a poor bookkeeper (Farley Granger) who sells his gold watch to buy a set of jeweled combs for his wife (Jeanne Grain) for Christmas, while she sells her beautiful hair to buy him a platinum watch fob; The Last Leaf, in which an unsuccessful artist (Gregory Ratoff) paints his masterpiece to keep a dying girl (Anne Baxter) alive; The Clarion Call, about a cop with a conscience (Dale Robertson) who has to arrest an old chum (Richard Widmark...