Is it Mr Finnie or Captain Mainwaring?

From: The Scotsman | Date: September 5, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

IT HAS been impossible to open the papers in the past few days without being confronted by the jowly chops of Ross Finnie, although the number of sightings is distorted by numerous pictures of his dopp- elganger, Captain Mainwaring.

How were the commissioning editors who chose to serialise Arthur Lowe's biography to know that Finnie and his prejudices would break cover in the same week?

"Self-important. Vain. Bigoted", ran one headline beside Finnie holding a gun, or was it Mainwaring?

"Intemperate", "undiplomatic", they were saying of Mainwaring. Or was it Finnie?

One thing is certain, at ...

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