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THE TWO American | sisters, Melinda and arriet Marling, had a corner table under the ‘amber awning of the Café de*Flore on that evening in Paris 31 summers ago. Two young Englishmen, Mark Culme-Seymour, on holiday from London, staying with his friend Donald Duart Maclean, ne’ i wly appointed Third nd_what forces have fr slrange, unhappy hfe? She was born in Chicago on July 25, 1916." Her father's fore” Secretary at the British Embassy; caught their eye. Within minutes they were talking fogether ax thougir they had known each other for years. It was a scene no doubt repeated a thousand times that summer in a thousand different cafés, But ls meeting was to possess & Decullar significance all its. own. - Vivacious Culme - Seymour preferred eae he ‘thought he was he Sayer, more vivacious gir). Maclean, "61t, 2in., with dark more Jike an actor y Dart of the young Siplomat than the young dipioe mat. himself, was attracted to Melinda. nenat night he ast ber pom e. jext evening they had dinner together, Soon they seemed separable. Melinda married the yo in. diplomat, She bore him ‘hres children. Two years after he had fled to Russia because his treachery was about to be abe, Joined “him in . And there she even tually married another British traitor, Kim Philby, What sort of woman is Melinda, who married two of Russian spies, who ‘denied her children the chance of free- dom? What is her background country’s most dangerous. ‘ars were Eng! + her mother's enoestors came from ce. Her father, Prancis Herbey Marling, was the advertising managet of the Pure Oil Com- ea Her mother, after whom - felinds la was named, had elopec with him at the age of 20. They Monee Hl NEW ‘York movi 0 ears after, Melinda was porn 8, ne " daughter, Catherines ang pee pears after Catherine, the third, ‘The Mastin omfort- @ Marlings were c ably of and praud of being listed tn the ‘Chicago social But “behind facade of money and some pre- Occupation with their socia} position, friction between rancis hi October Mrs. Marling took her three daughters to Bwitverland. ‘The girls attended La Peraiiie Schoo! in Vevey, near Lausanne, The head mistress held such Farm memoties of them that Rhon Donald aclean | de- cam) she wrote ele mother recalling Melinds ap “a most lovab'e character." ts, Marling left her @aughters there as ders when ashe returned the United States to marry a» lawyer, Hal Dunbar. fler ® few more tey & Peraille, ni where, two: three Marling gigs tailoged their mother back to"New York, aod lived with her and their stepfather in an expensive Apartment off Fifth Avenue. In New York Melinds enrolled at Spence School, a fashion- able establishment, but atie never shone at academic work, &fid disliked the discipline and foncenttation it involved. She left school early, although her sisters stayed on ‘and later went. to university, At her mother’s insistence Melinda wrote out man |ppli- cations for — jobs, wd ter initial Interviews "she showed little interest in actually Anding One, She did start a secre: terial courae, Put, late paltway ‘ough to work briefly book section of Macy’ the New York department store, She spent @ lot of time read- dng romances and Re IP maga- Hips, Altea with Jarger-than. '@_ stories Melinda decided to visit Paris, and sailed to France in 1938, She told her mother that she would learn French, and then ook bonne course in French literature and artistic appreciation, both esoteric sub- Jects at appealed to her een artistic, slightly imprac- ical out ‘ In Paris, “ashe ‘lived at first with a French family, hed a mild love affair with the son of — Mohr Bishop Casper Callahan —____ Conrad —_____ Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room —___ Holmes —_____ Gandy The Washington Post Times Herald ‘The Washington Daily News ‘The Evening Star (Washington) The Sunday Star (Washington) ____ Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) New York Poat The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) _ The Duily World _ The New Leader ———_—-— The Wall Street Journal ‘The National Observer People’s World ——_____ Examiner (Washington) EXPRESS _ LONDON, ENGLAND