Article: THANKS, BOB, FOR THE MEMORIES - ESPECIALLY THE PERSONAL ONES.(VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON)

Byline: Jo-Ann Clegg

I had always figured that when Bob Hope passed on, I would write an obituary with a personal touch - one in which I told of my own close encounter with one of the greatest comedians and finest human beings of our time.

I would relate, as I first did more than 20 years ago, the story of how we and the man of a million memories once stayed in the same hotel.

I would tell how, very late at night, Bill and I turned a corner in the hotel corridor and came face to face with a legendary figure who was smaller, more frail and far more humble than we had expected.

I would share the conversation we had in which the performer ...

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