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...Marshal Pétain. "In spite of everything, I am convinced that in other times Marshal Petain would not have consented to don the purple in the midst of national surrender . . . But alas! under the outer shell, the years had gnawed his character. Age was delivering him over to the maneuvers of people who were clever at covering themselves with his majestic lassitude. Old age is a shipwreck...
...Hugh (Wyatt Earp) O'Brian was bushwhacked by the critics. They spoofed his six-gun William Tell act of shooting balloons off a man's head, charged that some other hombre backstage reached out with a long pin. "Course I shoot the gun," drawled the punctured marshal. "I just don't use live ammunition." But even worse to the critics was Earp's de-Westernized act of crooning love songs in top hat and tails, plus some other "sissy stuff" of smooching with leggy gals all over the stage. Fumed Actor O'Brian...
Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery. Monty has discovered a new weapon-ink-and he splashes it on friend and foe alike...
...graduating class of the R.A.F. College at Cranwell. England, Air Marshal Sir Richard Atcherley, chief of the service's flight training program, confided: "You are going to be passed out by a mountebank who never passed in." The Atcherley secret: on their first try for Cranwell, Sir Richard and his twin brother David (killed in a 1952 air crash) flunked their physicals, he for weak eyes, David for a tricky kidney. Two months later they tried again. "In a contingency of this sort," said the marshal, "there are obvious advantages in being twins. So when we returned, with very...
...Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery...