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For the grand finale of a BBC-TV series on how he did it (official title: Command in Battle), foxy Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein first showed a film of the 1945 German capitulation at Luneburg Heath, then whipped out the rarely seen original surrender document—a plain little piece of regulation army foolscap which Monty has hoarded carefully in his files. Eyes atwinkle. Old (71) Soldier Montgomery defied anyone to take it away as long as he lives. "The question of my right to possess the document was raised by a Labor member in the House of Commons some years ago. Winston Churchill very rightly said that anybody who takes the surrender of 2,000,000 of the enemy in battle is entitled to keep the receipt."
Weary of waiting for his due, a Florida photographer sued jaded, penny-foolish Millionheir Playboy Horace Dodge Jr. and his blonde showgirl-wife Gregg Sherwood for an unpaid bill of $855.93, thereby made the artful Dodges defendants in Palm Beach County circuit court for the 35th time in the past five years.
In the midst of preparations for another religious crusade (in Australia) tireless Evangelist Billy Graham finally let Mayo doctors look at his bothersome left eye. Diagnosis: a contraction of the blood vessels (technically, angio-spastic edema of the macula) which has cut normal vision in the eye to almost half and was possibly brought on by nervous strain and overwork. Billy promised to follow doctors' orders and rest a little.
Totting up some inheritance-tax receipts, a Wisconsin taxman reckoned that the late Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy left to his widow and sole heir, Jean Kerr McCarthy, an estate of about $114,000.
The late Novelist-Screenwriter Octavus Roy Cohen (TIME, Jan. 19) left the bulk of his estate (at least $50,000) to a friend, Mrs. Margaret Brigham, $1 to his only child, Writer Octavus Roy Jr., 42.
Hearing the rattle of gunfire on the marshy Georgia estate of Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John Hay Whitney, two federal game management agents skulked low until the huntsmen popped from their blinds, ambushed a high-ranking catch: four retired Air Force officers—General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker, Major Generals E. P. Curtis and Frank O'D. Hunter —each overloaded (two beyond the limit) with dead ducks. Result: four $25 fines. Said one of the ambushers afterward: "They were all very agreeable about it."