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and hard as ‘a many-side diamond, still contained much kindness, Kim Philby understands chit- dren ; after all, he has five. He is fond of animals. In Beirut he kept a tame vixen as a pet in Re dat in ‘Moscow, "net h 2 compromised with caged Canaries and budgerigars. He would write little notes, “remember birthdays, show all the outgoin warmth of a basicatly“tonely, solitary: person j~nd above ‘all this "he was infinitely more highly Tegarded by is Soviet masters than ald Maclean. wh, hambeence Re elganor, tool inda 19 tbomata had said he They lunched other Said draw money account in nto pay for indo: Presents to bis English friends, Philby staved at the Macteans’ dacha in the country. He and Meiinda gathered eariy morning Murhrooms together. He kept Done of these mectines secret: he wrote to his wife about them When Eleanor Philby returned, Kim pestered her to ak Melinda over for dinner, Of “ail the presenis his wife had broucht back with ner, the one for -Melinda had to be specialiv wraoped.. He told. his wife how Donald Maclean was linpotent, how Melinda's life was a misery, how he searned to bring a little happiness into It. n her own account. Eleanor deseribeg how" Melinda tele d her one dav in January in_an awful state” Melinda explained tearfully, “Donald ts becoming quite im. oStovtrend T cannot live with im any more.” She was in the middle of me a @rranging her fiat si m Jasy she could have @ room for berscif, “while her husband would be in with one of the sons. Meanwhile, Kim Philby drank more and more heavily, He was away more often from home, aoparentiy working ou a book he was Rhosting for Konon Molody who. as Gordon Lons- Gale, was the Russian spy exchanged for Greville Wynne, Sometimes, Eleanor Philby found her husband making or Yeceiving guarded telephone Calis. She was sure be was talking to a woman. but like many another husband caught in the same situation. he indighantiy insisted that he was discussing his work, mong the small group of Western exiles with whom Eleanor Philby was allowed to make friends. the only woman she felt she knew sufficiently well to confide in about her worries was, ironically, Melinda Maclean, She to! M y elinda how she feared that Kim did not love her any more. ~ Melinda wave me a Jong. hard Jook." Eleanor Philby wrote later, , ie did, she sald. “untit @ while ago’* Finally.” as Eleanor Philby's Telations’ with her husband deteriorated, she " pezan to Tealise the extent of bis feelings for Melinda A lever? But she was still whether he was genuinely in Jove with her—or whether his Soviet superiors were simply using a temporary infatuation, mavbe even encouraging It. as a lever to drive his American wife out of the country. But at Teast she discovered that the affair had becun when she had been in America. Melinda and Kim had shared & heavy lunch one day and had drunk a lot toreth: “They were both feeling very not sure depressed. Melinda his how ‘mi erving, vetmeriuint able her life with Donald’ had becn. He escorted her hom, where she must have given him another drink or two—and that Was that Eleanor Phitby left Moscow in 1085 She died in California two months ago. Two Years after Eleanor’s de- Parture from ssia, Kim Philoy married Melinda. He Proposed in a restaurant. She accepted between courses. Now. for two lonely people. a ——_- * The Spy i LornisaEjeanor Philby amish Hamilton ae Rew iffe began in- mid) it a happier tite 2 eee ere 18 one ground for inking tt may ‘be, Wheo Eleanor was stilt fd to Kim. she was distressed . nen he admitted that 80. {4 88 he wag gencered the Com- ‘arty came fe evervihing ‘else in his pe'ore feelings for’ his ding his nilv, You should have married “unist, @ dedicated Com nobody else,” she told vesumably, he hi Ac ew The The Daily News (New York) Sundi New The The Sun (Baltimore) The The The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People's World Examiner (Washington) Date Times Herald DeLoach ______ Mohr —___ Bishop_ Casper Callahan Conrad - Felt. Gole Rosen —____ Sullivan Tavel Trotter — Tele. Room Holmes Gandy Washington Post —_— Washington Daily News Evening Star (Washington) Sunday Star (Washington) __ lay News (New York) York Post New York Times —_ Daily World. New Leader Se a {90