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...Shocked Americans. Matters reached the explosive stage last week on the night before shooting was scheduled to begin. Police arrested Sir Ranulph Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, a 22-year-old lieutenant in the Royal Scots Greys with a 900-year-old pedigree in Burke's Peerage (family motto: "Look Here for a Brave Spirit") on charges of trying to set fire to an outhouse near the dam. A wine importer, Christopher Knight, 23, was also hauled in, accused of trying to blow up the dam itself. On the same night, police also apprehended a car carrying two more young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: 19th Century Fox | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

...Frederick Altamount Cornwallis Twistleton, fifth Earl of Ickenham, who shoots off the top hat of a London barrister by means of a slingshot loaded with a Brazil nut-thus confirming his title as "England's answer to Annie Oakley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Man on Top | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...Pongo Twistleton, Uncle Fred's nephew, who goes all "white and shaken, like a dry martini" on seeing the punctured topper fly through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Man on Top | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

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