On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 06:31:01PM +0000, Carl Remick wrote:
>
> Which reminds me: By far the stiffest lip ever on public display was
> affixed to Noel Coward playing Capt. Edward V. Kinross, commander of HMS
> Torrin, in the 1942 "In Which We Serve." This hymn to the Royal Navy, which
> Coward himself wrote and co-directed with David Lean, was based on the
> real-life exploits of Louis Mountbatten as commander of the destroyer HMS
> Kelly. Mountbatten was known for feats of derring-do verging on suicidal
> insanity and got the Kelly pretty banged up before presiding over its
> sinking, with the loss of half the crew, during the evacuation of Crete in
> 1941. (Mountbatten himself survived the war and marriage to the formidable
> Edwina only to be blown up by the IRA in 1979 -- funny old world etc.)
>
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