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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 25
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THE TWO. American . , ‘ Conrad —-_
sisters, Melinda and Felt
Harriet Marling, had Gale
a corner table under . Rosen
the ‘amber awning of Sullivan
the Café de “Flore on Tavel
that evening in Paris
1 summers ago. Tele. Room
Two young Englishmen, — .
Mark Culme-Seymour, on. Holmes
holiday from London, Gandy
Staying with his friend
Donald Duart Maclean,
newly appointed Third " shaned—tt q xe
Secretary, mat the British Hae forces. mare a their t mothe "back f Ni we :
Embassy; caught thei she was born in" Y mith her ase thes
‘mingtes they were Jur 28 ie HrtaiReAth C2 abd ted wilh hee aad Sek
, 1916, fal ‘Stepfather in an expensive
talking ycainutes wey rere bears were English; her apartment off Fifth Avenue
they had known each other France| “U™#Ts came from “tn New York Ooh al enrolled
for years. It was a scene no — Hoc ‘tather, Prancis Herbey able Pees, Bebo! * iithion-
doubt repeated @ thousand Marling, was the advertising never shone at academic work,
times that summer in a ™managet of the Pure Oi Cone and disliked the discos ora
thousand different cafés. But Prelinde eastother, after whom » oo cence, me involved.” Bh
is meeting was to possess welt in at ene ore ele ee left school early, although her
tts Soar significance all married in Nae’ Sore Tey sisters rersiyy, ob Aitd later went
Own. eee moved to Chicago where, two: 0 University.
; At her mother's insistenc
ygars after Melinda was born, Melinda wrote tt ane te ce
Trotter
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‘ « * Mrs, Marling had her secol L
. Vivacious daughter, Catherine ; ond,, wo fabons ieee ooo 2ou ne ter
‘ i a. aiherine, the 6 she showe,
Culme - Seymour preferred Horse ° dittle interest in actually finding
arriet; he thought she was @ Marlings were comfort- one. She did Start & secre.
ie gayer, more Vivacious girl. ewe off and” Proud of being tarial course, but left halfway
Maciean, 6ft. 2in., with dark listed in the Chicago gocia through to werk briefly in the
wavy hair, more jike an actor Tegister. But behind their book section of Macy's, the
paving te pet youre young facade of money and some pre Noh York department store,
é e young dipto- occupation with their a0ci She spent a lot of time reads :
mat himself, was sttracted to position, friction grew between ing roniances’ and ulp maga- The Washington Post
Melinda. rancis and his wife. This zines filed with Jarger-than- Timee Herald
That night he saw her home, culminated in divorce when life stories of Hollywood film The Washi Daily N
Next evening they had dinner Melinda was 12, and in the stars. On her twenty-first birth. ‘"¢ Washington Daily News
together. Soon they seemed foliowing October Mrs. Marling day ashe inherited some The Evening Star (Washington)
inseparable, took her three daughters to money of her OWN, and 50 was ;
Melinda married the young Switzerland. Independent of her mother for The Sunday Star (Washington)
diplomat. She pore him three The girls attended La Peratile the first time. .
children, Two years after he Schoolen Vevey, nearLausanne, — Melinda decided to visit Paris, Daily News (New York)
had fled to Russia because his The head mistress held such and sailed to France in 1938. sunday News (New York}
treachery was about to be warm memoties of them that She told her mother that she ¥
exposed, she joined him im when Donald Maclean de would learn French, and then New York Poat
Moscow. And there she even- camped she wrote to their take « Sorbonne course in .
ually married another British mother recalling Melinda ag “a - French \terature and artistic The New York Times
traitor, Kim Philby, most lovable character." appreciation, both esoteric sub. Th {Balti }
What sort of woman ts Mrs, Marling left her jects that appealed to her © Sun (Baltimore)
Melinda, who married two of daughters there as boarders Vaguely artistic, slightiy imprac- The Daily World
this country’s most dangerous. when she Teturned to the tical outlook, ‘
Russian spies, who ‘denied her United States to marry a In Paris, sha Hved at first The New Leader
children the chance of tfree- lawyer, Hal Dunbar. fler & with a French family, had a
7 What is her background few more terms et Ls Peraille, mild love affair with the son ot The Wall Street Journal
= ne a np Toten ti a” Ra The National Observer ee
People’s World
Examiner (Washington)
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