Flip Wilson
* While driving on the Ventura Freeway on June 3, 1978, I saw a blue Porsche stopped on the roadway. I stopped to help and it was Flip Wilson (obituary, Nov. 26). The FLIP on the license plate told me who it was. I drove him to North Hollywood and he said, “How can I pay you?” I said send me a signed picture. Instead he wrote me a check for $1 for the freeway pickup and on the back said, “You saved my ass, Geraldine--It was great being in your hands.” This is because I am an Allstate agent. I still have the check.
MIKE COHEN
Northridge
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