John Macfie of Parry Sound, Ont., tells us that Don Harron gave a hint of his later radio and TV career even as he trained at No. 7 Bombing and Gunnery School at Fingal, Ont., during the Second World War.

Harron tended to get airsick, particularly while lying in the nose of an Anson during night-bombing practice. One midnight, during post-flight tepid tea in the mess, someone asked Harron how he was making out with his unfortunate weakness.

“Oh, fine,” he said. “You must come up some evening and see my retchings.”

Macfie must have learned from Harron because he concludes: “Like the rest of us, Harron scattered 11 1/2 –lb. practice bombs uniformly across southwestern Ontario rather than clustering them around the approved targets. You might say he has hardly ever bombed since.”