Below are media mentions from The China Mail, an English-language newspaper from Hong Kong.
May 4, 1961
Source: The Internet Archive
From American Newsletter by Jean Campbell:
Back to Bucks
THE most sinister looking man I have yet seen in New York is a pale Englishman of Norwegian descent. He is a writer, with a pen that can pry into the nerve centres with the unrelenting efficiency of a hypodermic needle.
His name is Roald Dahl and he has captured the imagination of this country with his book of short stories, Kiss Kiss, and a morbid coast-to-coast television series.
On Friday Dahl returned to his home at Great Missenden, Bucks, with his merry, red-haired actress wife, Patricia Neal, and their three children.
Dahl tells me that he thinks that fiction writers have a far more important place in the American community today than in England. He writes slowly, sometimes taking as long as six months to finish one short story.
The Dahl family have devised a most interesting way to stop their daughters studying themselves in their full-length nursery mirror. They have boarded the mirror to the height of the children and allowed them to paint a picture on the wooden surface.
—(London Express Service).