The secretary of Courtenay Young, who shared a room with Anthony Blunt and was 'in and out of their room all the time', later recalled:
"My God, he was a charmer! Poor Anthony! We were all a bit in love with Anthony, you know... He used to wander around with his cod-liver oil and malt, saying, 'That's what Tiggers like for breakfast.' He knew Winnie the Pooh very well. He had a Leslie Howard face - a matinee idol - a rather thin and drawn-looking face but it was the face of Leslie Howard. Everyone was in love with Leslie Howard at that time."
When she heard a quarter of a century later that Blunt had confessed to being a Soviet agent: "It was exactly like being in an earthquake - or on quicksand, I couldn't believe it. I really, truly, couldn't believe it... Really, I mean the whole world shook. It really shook for me. You started thinking, 'Who else? What about me? Was I one too?'"
Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm
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christopher lima photographed by andrew gin
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The Sound of Music + textposts pt. 4/?
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A set of simple studies because I think about the cinematography in the sound of music a lot
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Just had to do a The Sound of Music (1965) version
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When news reached Los Alamos of [Alan Nunn] May's arrest, the wife of one of the British scientists commented, "I knew him fairly well. But I don't know how you would describe him. He was like - why, he was rather like Klaus [Fuchs] here." Fuchs, who was later revealed as the most important of the British atomic spies, is said to have smiled politely and commented that he did not think May could have told the Russians anything of real importance.
Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm
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