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Art Buchwald (Journalist): A young protégé of Jake’s at the Paris Tribune.
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Bill Buckley (Author, Conservative Icon): A schoolyard bully.
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Ray Charles, Ruth Brown, LaVern Baker, Chuck Berry, Blossom Dearie, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, David “Fathead” Newman (Recording Artists): They each had something to teach Ronnie about music. . . and life.
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Lamont Cranston (The Shadow): A wealthy young man about town who uses his power to cloud men’s minds to influence the course of history.
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Blossom Dearie (Expatriate jazz singer): An American in Paris, she would take Ronnie under her wing.
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Jimmie Dodd (Host, The Mickey Mouse Club): A TV director with some Mickey Mouse ideas about what makes a show work.
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Ahmet Ertegun (Co-founder of Atlantic Records): A Turkish gentleman who introduced Ronnie to a new world of music.
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William Fromme (Father of Manson Family Member): Margery’s husband-to-be, raising his daughter Lynette to be a squeaky-clean American patriot.
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Maurice Girodias (Publisher of Venus in Bondage, The Story of O, Lolita, Lady Chatterley’s Lover): He has no trouble in promising Nick an Olympian advance.
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York Harding (The Quiet American): A writer of books,
he helped Alden understand the role of the West.
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Lee Hays and Ronnie Gilbert (The Weavers): Members of the popular folk quartet, they needed a replacement for Pete Seeger, but Ronnie Gilchrist was not to be their darling.
The other guy in the Weavers: Whose name no one could ever remember.
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Howard Koch (Screenwriter, Casablanca): An American writer and exile of conscience from McCarthyism. Here’s looking at you, kid.
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Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh (Prime Minister of Iran 1951-53): He believed American-style democracy could change the Middle East. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi (Shah of Iran): A young protégé of Allen Dulles’s on the Peacock Throne.
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Kim Philby (British/Soviet Double Agent): Could he be trusted with the deepest secrets of American intelligence?
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Quayle and Quayle/Dick Daley (Future players on the political scene): Midwestern law firms who handled the Carraway divorce.
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Gen. Raoul Salan (Founder, Terrorist group against Algerian independence): In case we need a Falangist takeover of France.
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Irving Sheinbloom (A Mighty Wind): Folk music was his business, but a pretty girl could send him on top of Old Smokey.
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Stephen Spender (British poet and editor): For him, the CIA would be only a brief encounter.
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Gloria Steinem (Ms. Magazine): Was any student movement in 1953 not controlled by the CIA?
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Clyde Tolson (Associate Director, FBI): Special friend of the FBI Director, he knew all the secrets...and he knew Christine.
Clyde Tolson's friend: He who must not be named.
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Sloan Wilson (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit): An American in Paris who picks up a novel idea from Nick.
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