I had dinner with my folks this weekend, and my Dad asked me what the connection was between Snoopy and D.H. Lawrence, author of many novels including Lady Chatterley's Lover.
I couldn't figure it out. He said Lawrence had been married to Frieda von Richthofen, who was a sister of the Red Baron.
He added a wonderful story that he'd read. It seems that after Lawrence's death, his wife travelled to the United States, bringing his ashes with her. She brought them along when she went to a cocktail party where she lost the ashes, and they were never seen again.
I don't know why anyone would bring ashes to a cocktail party, but there you go. It's a good story. It may be apocryphal, but I hope it's true.
The links I found say that Frieda Lawrence was a distant relative of Baron Manfred Von Richthofen, Snoopy's nemesis, the Red Baron.
[Image of a grumpy looking David Herbert Lawrence from cswnet.com]
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