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DAVID NIVEN SELLS HIS BODY
Wanna make a fortune? David Niven's got the formula and it's fool-proof.
In fact, he tried it once, and it would have worked— "Except for my brother," David explains. "My brother scotched the whole plan. But it would Ve worked!"
It all started years and years and years ago when David was broke. Not only broke, but in debt and worried about where he was ever going to get. enough money to get himself out of hock.
Until a brilliant idea came to him. He'd -ell his body to a London hospital!
Not while he was alive, of course. But research and medical schools always need corpses — more than they can ever get. And the beauty of the thing was that he'd have the money to spend while he was alive — and who cared what happened after he was dead?
So David went about making inquiries, and found the payment for his torso was 50 good "that I went about selling my remains to a number of institutions!
"I figured that once I was dead, they could fight it out among themselves," he grins, remembering the David Niven of a couple of decades ago. when he was very young and very foolish.
But David figured without his very proper older brother.
"When my brother heard the story, he was so horrified he visited all the hospitals, bought me back — and gave me to myself for Christmas!
"But anyway, without the petty larceny —you can make . . . well, maybe not a fortune. But it's fool-proof!
"Unless," David adds, grinning, "you don't have a brother who'll buy you back. Then it might be jail-bait!"
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David Niven is in Columbia's Bonjour Tristesse and UI's My Man Godfrey.
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