When you were young, did you meet any great writers? Did you meet Hemingway?
I met Hemingway in Paris, at the Hôtel Scribe, during the war but I didn’t really get to know him until after the war. I made a lot of money with The Harder They Fall and with that money I went down to Key West where Ernest was. I met him there in 1947. Toby Bruce was a great friend of mine, and Toby worked for Ernest.

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