to two of the characters, Nat and Dan. Early in the book, Nat is responsible for introducing Dan to the school which is the setting of the novel. Later, when Nat is falsely accused of theft, Dan stands by him and then later takes responsibility for the theft himself, saying that he could bear the mistrust and anger of the other boys more easily than his weaker friend. In fact, neither boy is guilty, and they are later cleared of involvement. Two clerks arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct in Charles Dickens's story "Making a Night of It" (in Sketches by Boz) allude to Damon and Pythias. In A Bell for Adano, by John Hersey, Captain Purvis's and Mayor Joppolo's friendship is compared to the friendship of Damon and Pythias because they dated sisters. In 1895, Jack London used Damon and Pythias as the nicknames of the two main characters in "Who Believes in Ghosts!" In the 1940 movie The Philadelphia Story, Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) remarks, with great irony, that C. K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) and George Kittredge (John Howard) are just like Damon and Pythias. During World War II, P-51 fighter pilots Major Dominic Salvatore "Don" Gentile (6 December 1920 – 28 January 1951) and his wingman Captain John Trevor Godfrey (1922–1958) both of the 4th Fighter Group were referred to as "Damon and Pythias" This remarkable team destroyed over 50 German aircraft. In the 1950 Bowery Boys movie Blonde Dynamite, the boys establish a male escort service out of their foil Louie's ice cream parlor while they have conveniently sent him to Coney Island on vacation; Slip Mahoney (Leo Gorcey) tells the other boys to "Let Damon and Pythias fight it out!"—meaning to let Sach (Huntz Hall) and Whitey (Billy Benedict) fight to see which would be included in a group date with a bevy of femmes fatale. Jim Kjelgaard's 1957 novel Double Challenge names two trophy whitetail bucks as Damon and Pythias in the rurals of Pennsylvania. On the Season 2,Episode 32: Aired: May 7, 1959 Leave It To Beaver "Friendship" Ward Cleaver uses it as a reference to his sons,due to Beaver having an argument with his friend Larry Modello. In the 1971 PG Wodehouse novel Much Obliged, Jeeves, Bertie Wooster tells his Aunt Dahlia that at Oxford, his friendship with Ginger Winship was comparable to that of Damon and Pythias. In Episode 8,