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No. He was assigned to various ridiculous pictures, not his own stuff. Their most successful picture, I guess, of Bill's was made from a story of his called Turn-about, which was a story of World War I. In it, first the air people take up some kids from the Navy and they run a little motorboat or something and the air people are very contemptuous of them and they give them a lot of stunt riding and the boys react pretty bravely to it. Then the boys invite the air people back on their little boat, and that's when the air people find out that the debonair kids, who they thought just were running this motorboat, take explosives in the boat and ram it into the German boats. And sometimes they get away in time. And sometimes they explode with the boat. It turns out the Navy kids are the real heroes, you see. It's a wonderful story. Joan Crawford was starred in the picture and it was a great success.

Then, of course, there's “A Rose for Emily”...I don't know whether that was made into a.movie or not. But it certainly was his best-known short story. Every anthology for the last fifty years has had “A Rose for Emily” in it.

Did you encourage him to go to Hollywood?

Oh, it was nice for him to get the moneyf It was always good for a lot of new funny anecdotes too.

One time, for example, he drove some mules all the way back from Hollywood to Oxford. Bill loved mules. He