1999ApJ...514L..25L

The blue star reported in the field of the young LMC cluster NGC 1818 by Elson et al. in 1998 has the wrong luminosity and radius to be a ``luminous white dwarf'' member of the cluster. In addition, unless the effective temperature range quoted by the authors is a drastic underestimate, the luminosity is much too low for it to be a cluster member in the post-asymptotic giant branch phase. Other possibilities, including that of binary evolution, are briefly discussed. However, the implication that the massive main-sequence turnoff stars in this cluster can produce white dwarfs (instead of neutron stars) from single-star evolution needs to be reconsidered.