A Covert Affair (65 page)

After a bumpy courtship, Julia and Paul were not about to let a pre-wedding car accident keep them from exchanging vows on September 1, 1946.

Dick Heppner and Betty MacDonald also married in the summer of 1946, and were thrilled that other members of their detachment had found happiness after the war.

The Childs in their grand “Roo de Loo” apartment in Paris with their cat, Minette, who was the beneficiary of many of Julia's early failed soufflés.

In a pointed repudiation of the charge of homosexuality, Julia and Paul boldly posed naked in a tub of bubbles for their 1956 Valentine's Day card.

Julia spent most of her time in Paris practicing what she had learned at the Cordon Bleu school in her tiny kitchen, where the stovetop was back-breakingly low.

Jane Foster returned to painting after the war, and Paul envied her small studio in Paris, where she sometimes produced a picture a day.

Jane's woodcut of the U.S. Board of Passport Appeals in Washington, D.C., which in March 1955 turned down her passport application on the grounds that she “followed the Communist party line.”

Jane's husband, George Zlatovski, peeking through the half-open door at the mob of reporters outside their Paris apartment the morning after they were indicted as Russian spies.

Jane had expensive tastes in everything from clothes to restaurants and always lived beyond her means.

The beautiful Martha Dodd and her wealthy husband, Alfred Stern, threw fabulous parties in their penthouse apartment in the Majestic that attracted such notable leftists as Lillian Hellman, Paul Robeson, Margaret Bourke-White, and Clifford Odets.

The mysterious Boris Morros, a Russian-born Hollywood producer, posing here with Ginger Rogers, was secretly working as a double agent and spent twelve years helping the FBI corral Soviet spies.

Jack Soble, in handcuffs, and his wife, Myra, being led by a federal agent, pled guilty to “receiving and obtaining” U.S. defense secrets and testified that Jane and George were members of their Soviet spy ring in return for a more lenient sentence.