Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl, (Telegraph.co.uk) — Apparently motivated by a combination of law and lust, Dahl slept with countless women of high society while gathering intelligence in the United States.

His life as a young officer, handsome and dashing RAF in early 1940 is detailed in a new book by Donald Sturrock, Narrator: Roald Dahl‘s life, which is serialized in The Sunday Telegraph today.

Antoinette Haskell, a wealthy friend of Dahl who looked to him like a brother though was “drop dead gorgeous,” said the author as a whole “stable” of women to wait in all your needs. “He was very arrogant with their wives, but he got away with it. The uniform did not hurt a bit – and it was a [as] driver,” he said. “I think he slept with everyone in the east and west coasts were more than 50,000 a year.”

Dahl had fought as a fighter pilot before the war, until the injuries as grounded. He then worked for a network of secret services based in the United States called British Security Coordination (BSC). Was initially created to promote the interests of the United Kingdom and the United States to counter Nazi propaganda.

It is not known exactly how Dahl was recruited as a British agent, but it is believed he was working for BSC loosely by the first four months of 1944, when, officially, had a public relations role at the British Embassy in Washington DC. He was “run” in New York by William Stephenson, an industrialist and businessman Canadian piracy.

However, the role reserved Dahl was against the current, because it was a terrible gossip that often betrayed confidences, according to his family and friends. His daughter Lucy admitted: “Dad could not keep his mouth shut.”

The new biography also examines Dahl allegations of bullying and brutality during his days at Repton public school, the author wrote about children in his book Boy. Dahl blamed Geoffrey Fisher, the Director of Repton and became the archbishop of Canterbury, by a vicious beating that left him bloodied and questioning his religious faith.

However, there is evidence that Dahl, who died in 1990 at age 74, was a mistake to blame Fisher for banging in the summer of 1933. By then, Fisher had left Repton to become bishop of Chester and as far as the beating was, in fact, run by John Christie, his successor as director.

Patricia Neal

Patricia Neal, (The Hollywood Gossip) — Actress Patricia Neal, whose life was marred by both success and tragedy, has died at 84 of cancer, according to media reports.

Neal won an Oscar for his role in the 1963 movie Hud with Paul Newman and boasted a long list of theater, film and television worked for decades.

She once had an affair with actor Gary Cooper, who starred in the leaf spring and brilliant but ended in disaster after his wife found out.

She was married to British writer Roald Dahl for 30 years with whom he had five children. His son suffered serious injuries after being hit by a taxi when only four months old and his oldest son, daughter Olivia died of measles.

Many years later, the marriage of Neal Dahl ended after 30 years in 1983 after the writer had an affair with one of his friends and moved from England to the United States, where he divides his time between New York and Martha’s Vineyard .

When Neal was pregnant with her fifth child in 1965, suffered three massive strokes and was in a coma for three weeks, but eventually recovered.

“I think I was born stubborn, that’s it,” Neal said in a biography on the website of the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center was dedicated in his honor in 1978 by Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Among his memorable performances are those in 1950’s A Face in the Crowd, 1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still, and 1960 Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

More recently, she appeared with Glenn Close in “Cookie’s Fortune in 1999 and appeared in the Lifetime movie with Billy Ray Cyrus flying in 2009.