Rhoda Henry (Polly Bergen) divorced Pug, changed her name to Nancy and married a younger man. He was then assigned to Iran, where terrorists had him exiled rather than endure him as a hostage. Leslie Slote (David Dukes) stayed with the State Department and, in the early '60s, helped mastermind the Bay of Pigs invasion. Palmer Kirby (Peter Graves) died of boredom while dictating his memoirs.

In his later years he dedicated his life to making rude and insufferable television commercials for Smith Barney. This allowed him to take more meaningless and technically unexplainable trips all over Europe and Asia, war or no war. However, the American Broadcasting Company was forming at about the same time and promptly put her in charge of its programming.Īaron Jastrow (John Houseman), who had already converted from Judaism to Catholicism, converted to Buddhism and then back to Catholicism and then back to Judaism again. Madeline Henry (Lisa Eilbacher) lost her job at CBS because it was discovered she had no talent, bad taste, little intelligence and total contempt for the human race. But it didn't take, and she never did graduate, so she did the logical thing and became a movie star. Natalie Jastrow (Ali MacGraw) made it through the war, found out she wasn't really Jewish (and after all that fuss! Isn't that a stitch!) and was sent to remedial acting school for the next several years. After the war, he divorced his wife and took his great knowledge of the Italian Renaissance to Venice-Venice, Calif., where he eventually turned up on 'Ripley's Believe It or Not' as the world's oldest living beach boy.

True, there is an 'official' published sequel, 'War and Remembrance,' that covers the next few years in the saga, but the word on the streets (Sixth Avenue and 54th, to be specific) is that author Herman Wouk might demand too much money from ABC for the rights to it, so an alternative author, the less well-known Herman Hawke, has written a top-secret, hush-hush, suitably implausible, unofficial sequel, 'The Winds of War and Remembrance.'įorthwith the whereabouts from that tome.īyron Henry (Jan-Michael Vincent) was lost at sea. Veritable precipices are positively the worst kind. Here's what happened to those foolish mortals you learned to love-or to tolerate, at least-in 'The Winds of War.' They were all left dangling at the veritable precipice of a dread abyss as the miniseries ended.

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