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“It is most disquieting…”: CMP.

“Roosevelt has undertaken…”: Hyde,
Room 3603
, p. 212.

“much activity in Princeton…”: HWD.

“Gallup is devoted intensely…”: Ibid.

“rare businessman with…”: BBB, p. 85.

“When Dewey was…”: Ibid.

“small beer”: Ibid., p. 92.

“curiously lazy”: Ibid., p. 98.

“Needless to say…”: Ibid., p. 99.

“gentlemen don’t read…”: Troy,
Wild Bill and Intrepid
, p. 208.

“the beneficiaries of such…”: BBB, p. 99.

“hyper-critical levels”: Ibid., p. 93.

“brevity was discouraged…”: Ibid., p. 94.

“The Secretary of state…”: Ibid., p. 97.

“Our security was dreadful…”: CBC, Dahl, take 3.

“one of the most malicious…”: WD, p. 241.

“tremendous friction”: CBC, Dahl, take 1–2.

“The embassy waffled…”: Ibid.

“keeping a lid on”: Hyde,
Room 3603,
p. 229.

“We Americans should have to…”: Ibid., p. 230.

“a genuine flurry…”: WD, p. 412.

“to have collected…”: Ibid.

“Suddenly, in Drew Pearson’s…” CBC, Dahl, take 1–2.

“Man who gave…”: OH.

“Well, this wasn’t too…”: Ibid.

“That stopped that…”: Ibid.

“absolutely secure…”: Ibid.

“It took a whole roll…”: Ibid.

“It’s terrible, the advantages…”: ECP.

“charming…lazy”: Interview with Dahl, John Pearson Papers, Manuscripts Department, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington; by permission of J. Pearson.

“My dear boy…”: Ibid.

“A giant among…”: McLachlan,
Room 39
, p. 9.

“There was a great red glow…”: Pearson,
Life of Fleming
, p. 207.

“misfires in the cloak-and-dagger…”: YOLO, p. 55.

“In traditional spy-story style…”: Ibid.

“Hullo Bunny…”: Ibid., p. 56.

“To be opened…”: Ibid., p. 57.

“You are to run a test…” Ibid.

“Running to the telephone…”: Ibid., p. 59.

“wonder anaesthetic…”: Ibid., p. 60.

“at least 500 ways of persecuting”:
WP
, September 17, 1989.

“no end of a row…”: NR, p. 400.

“get the dirt”: Ibid., p. 402.

“surprise and horror…”: Ibid.

“the easiest mark…”: Troy,
Wild Bill and Intrepid
, p. 145.

“the precise danger which is run…”: NR, p. 402.

“his personal word”: Brown,
Life of Menzies,
p. 391.

“the President and the…”: Ibid.

“needed a different type…”: Troy,
Wild Bill and Intrepid
, p. 75.

“with the direct authority…”: Brown,
Life of Menzies,
p. 392.

“liaison, pure and…”: Ibid.

“The implication that the FBI…”: Philby,
Silent War
, p. 73.

“That’s the nastiest…”: Roald Dahl, “My Lady Love, My Dove,”
New Yorker
, June 21, 1952, p. 20.

“If he told me a double agent…”: ECP.

“His position was therefore…”: BSI, p. 130.

“Both Berle and Beaverbrook…”: HWD.

“tragedy”: Ibid.

CHAPTER 9: GOOD VALUE

 

“As you often say…”: CMC.

“good value…”: RDM.

“everything was gold”: Ibid.

“mystic séances”: HWD.

“further evidence…”: Ibid.

“regrettable”: Ibid.

“bunk”: WD, p. 376.

“had been very much…”: HWD.

“This is very serious…”: Ibid.

“talk nonsense”: CMC.

“was the best in the world”: Ibid.

“The Mother of Roald…”: CMC.

“tawdry affair…”: Ibid.

“you, as a great gentlemen…”: Ibid.

“troublemaker…”: Ibid.

“The views attributed to…”: HWD.

“a tremendous hit…”: CMP.

“his Lordship as the purest…”: CMC.

“I have long played…”: Ibid.

“had been a fool…”: Gellhorn,
Selected Letters
, p. 160.

“Anyhow, due to Roald…”: Ibid., p. 161.

“something something really dauntless…”: Farrell,
Pat and Roald
, p. 137.

“Why the eyedropper…”: Baker,
Hemingway
, p. 390.

“to tidy him up”: Ibid., p. 391.

“would never work…”: Gellhorn,
Selected Letters
, p. 163.

“He was a fellow…”: Baker,
Hemingway,
p. 392.

“lay where they had fallen…”: Ernest Hemingway, “Voyage to Victory,”
Collier’s,
July 22, 1944.

“But Ernest…”: Baker,
Hemingway,
p. 395.

“not live at the Dorchester”: Ibid.

“in that fine 400-mile…”: Ernest Hemingway, “London Fights the Robots,”
Collier’s,
August 9, 1944.

“a nuisance”: CMC.

“Rumor from that Great…”: Ibid.

“Yes-men,” “Pin-up Boys”: Dallek,
Lone Star Rising
, p. 261.

“Joy Through Length Project”: Treglown,
Roald Dahl
, p. 99.

“Our electoral college…”: Ibid.

“I can only depend…”: Ibid.

CHAPTER 10: ENEMY MANEUVERS

 

“There was this rather…”: CBC, Dahl, take 1–2.

“whispering campaign…”: WD, p. 381.

“Things are not going well…”: HWD.

“Ickes does not fly…”: Ibid.

“on-the-record conference”: Ibid.

“a bone of contention”: Ibid.

“I am talking to the ceiling…”: Ibid.

“pushed down anybody’s…”: Ibid.

“Wallace’s Pre-Convention…”: CMP, HWD.

“as a Communist…”: HWD.

“enemy maneuvers”: CMP, HWD.

“I have been associated…”: Culver and Hyde,
American Dreamer
, p. 351.

“If you want him…”: Ibid.

“fight to the finish”: CMP, HWD.

“The strength of the…”: Culver and Hyde,
American Dreamer
, p. 359.

“if a vote was taken…”: Ibid., p. 363.

“For Truman…”: Hart,
Washington at War
, p. 216.

“It was a fine fight…”: Culver and Hyde,
American Dreamer
, p. 366.

“Even though they do…”: HWD.

“character, enterprise…”: CMP, HWD.

“When a ‘dark horse’…”: Ibid.

“heavy, uncertain step”: CMP.

“When Wallace…”: AH.

“some international…”: Culver and Hyde,
American Dreamer
, p. 373.

“Horse-whip Helen”: CMP, HWD.

“the great female agent…”: CMC.

“too loud”: Ibid.

“great regret…”: Ibid.

“made us all Gremlin…”: WP, August 24, 1944.

“the beautiful home…”: CMC.

“scared to death”: HWD.

“I asked if he knew…”: Ibid.

“10,000 agents…”: Ibid.

“Dahl is an awfully nice boy…” Ibid.

“just the same as before”: RDM.

“laughed loud and long”: Chisholm and Davie,
Beaverbrook,
p. 450.

“parceling out”: NR, pp. 498–99.

“as impossible now…”: Ibid.

“In other words…”: Ibid., p. 502.

“This merely a note…”: Ibid.

“working together to keep…”: Bender and Altschul,
Chosen Instrument,
p. 389.

“an incomparably better…”: Ibid.

“changing horses…”: Hart,
Washington at War
, p. 218.

“a clinical analysis”: Hyde,
Room 3603,
p. 212.

“It’s unbelievable…”: Ibid., p. 213.

“either an idiot or a genius…”: Ibid.

“although undeniably…”: WD, p. 454.

“keen analytical powers…”: BBB, p. 103.

“unavoidable human fallibility”: WD, p. 454.

“a sigh of unofficial…”: Dahl to Eleanor Roosevelt, November 8, 1944, ERP.

“I deeply appreciate…”: Eleanor Roosevelt to Dahl, November 13, 1944, ERP.

“do a job on the balls…”: CMC.

“We met in an era…”: Bender and Altschul,
The Chosen Instrument
, p. 392.

“What happened next?”: Treglown,
Roald Dahl,
p. 78.

“it is not always good…”:
NYT
, September 21, 1996.

“I went to the Oak Room…”: AH.

“Roald would bring…”: Ibid.

“He was so tall…”: Treglown,
Roald Dahl,
p. 79.

“the one great love…”:
NYT,
September 23, 1996.

“kind of impossible…”: Treglown,
Roald Dahl,
p. 79.

“He could be mean…”: AH.

“when they fell in love…”: Treglown,
Roald Dahl
, p. 77.

“gnome-like, greying…”: Bender and Altschul,
Chosen Instrument,
p. 390.

“the outstanding symbol…”: HWD.

“favorable…”: Ibid.

“sad”: Ibid.

“favorite court jester”: RIP.

“never dragged his…”: CMC.

“The fourth term was…”: Culver and Hyde,
American Dreamer,
p. 380.

“Nevertheless, even at…”: CMC.

“Screwball, Unincorporated…”: Ibid.

“This man reports…”: Ibid.

“wrote like a madman”: RDM.

“urgent business”: Ibid.

“in solitary opulence”: Ibid.

“did the trick”: Ibid.

“privately communicated”: CMC.

“My Dear Lord…”: Ibid.

“small brain…”: CMP.

“He said he wanted…”: OH.

“the last of his troubles”: CMC.

“perennially efficient…”: Ibid.

“a Hawaiian Princess”: AH.

“quite sensibly…”: Ibid.

CHAPTER 11: THE GLAMOUR SET

 

“We almost suffered…”: ECP.

“quite a long time”: CBC, Dahl, take 3.

“faster than I…”: RDM.

“quite a shock”: CBC, Dahl, take 3.

“The first impression…”: Ibid.

“only his eyes…”: Ibid.

“quiet Canadian”: Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins
, p. 270.

“He never raised…”: Ibid.

“This one is dear…”: Hyde,
Room 3603,
p. xii.

“The thing I always…”: Stafford,
Camp X,
p. 253.

“copped out”: Ibid.

“official go-between”: CMC.

“which you would…”: Ibid.

“She is a martinet…”: Ibid.

“It became quite…”: Stafford,
Camp X,
p. 256.

“switched off”: ECP.

“The Home Secretary…”: Ibid.

“a literary striptease”: Troy,
Wild Bill and Intrepid
, p. 153.

“Uncle Sucker”: Blum,
Victory,
p. 303.

“The dollar sign…”: Ibid., p. 312.

“rough and harsh”: Ibid.

“catching up”: CMP.

“the matter of the President’s…”: CMP, HWD.

“the establishment…”: Ibid.

“an all-powerful…”: Troy,
Donovan and CIA,
p. 255.

“secret funds for…”: Ibid.

“maliciously…”: WD, p. 518.

“exposing” and “the glamour set…”: Troy,
Donovan and CIA,
p. 280.

“To put it mildly…”: ECP.

“very complimentary…” HWD.

“dangerous implications…”: Ibid.

“something of a Russophobe…”: Ibid.

“Seventy-two…”: Ibid.

“very reasonable medical grounds”: RDM.

“attached to the President’s…”: Troy,
Donovan and CIA,
p. 296.

“My Dear General…”: Ibid., p. 303.

“do a great deal of good…”: HWD.

“a violent addiction…”: ECP.

“exhausted and almost…”: Coward,
Future Indefinite,
p. 275.

“impeccable secrecy…”: Ibid.

“You know, Ivar…”: YOLO, p. 74.

“the right bit…”: Ibid.


PRAY PAUSE NOT
…”: Ibid., p. 81.

“colleagues in economic…”: BBB, p. 103.

“help bridge over…”:
Time,
June 6, 1949.

“The sad thing…”: CBC, Dahl, take 3.

“a very rough ride”: Ibid.

“Although Bill…”: Ibid.

“quite nice”: BSI, pp. 13–14.

“luxurious apartment”: RDM.

“My father knew…”: AH.

“It was Charles…”: RIP.

“mad abandon…”:
NYT,
February 10, 1946.

“especially enjoyed…”: CMC.

“I didn’t understand…”: Baker,
Hemingway,
p. 637.

“in hospitals and…”: Coward,
Diaries,
p. 50.

“These stories…”: Ibid.

“Hurrah!”: CMC.

“Talk little…”: Ibid.

“mere papa”: Ibid.

“Your presence…”: Ibid.

CHAPTER 12: FULL LIVES

 

“Gamblers just before…”: Pearson,
Life of Fleming,
p. 299.

“must not let British…”: Schapmeier and Schapmeier,
Prophet in Politics,
p. 155.

“through forever”: CMC.

“I don’t know what…”: BBC/NVC Roald Dahl documentary, produced and directed by Donald Sturrock.

“cured”: CMC.

“we hear that…”: Ibid.

“From being a…”: Dahl,
Over to You,
p. 151.

“the noise of gunfire…”: Roald Dahl, “The Soldier,”
Someone Like You
.

“Not many will read it…”: CMC.

“what they could do with it”: Ibid.

“despair held bolt upright…”: Baker,
Hemingway
, p. 486.

“I wish them dead”: CMC.

“cheap for the thrill…”: Ibid.

“to tear one another…”: Dahl, “Claud’s Dog,”
Someone Like You
.

“a
thousand
sisters…”: Treglown,
Roald Dahl
, p. 84.

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