Actor Rex Harrison and his former wife Elizabeth were dining with a few friends at the "21" Club. While they were preparing to order, as happens so often with actors, a handsome young man got up from a nearby table and came over to meet them. He said, "We just got in on the last flight. You've given me so much pleasure through the years, Mr. Harrison, I just had to come over to thank you."

Harrison nodded his head graciously and returned his attention to the wine list as soon as the young man had left again. "What a very odd fellow," Rex said later. "I don't know why he made such a fuss over his last flight. I came in on the last flight from London, but I don't go on about IT, do I?"

"Rex," said his wife, "that was James Lovell. He just came back from flying around the moon." (1)

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