Below are media mentions from The Independent Press Telegram, Long Beach, California, USA.
May 21, 1961
Source: The Internet Archive:
ALL ‘STINKERS’
‘Way Out’ Host Hates People
by Dick Kleiner
NEW YORK (NEA)—Roald Dahl, host of CBS-TV’s “Way Out,” may prove to be New York’s answer to Alfred Hitchcock.
He long has been regarded as one of the top writers of macabre stories. . . . He says be likes to write them “to point out the rottenness of people.”
“They’re all stinkers, aren’t they? The women are just as bad as the men — in some cases, worse. Men are more aggressive—they like to fight—but women are more unscrupulous.”
Dahl has entered the hosting business out of necessity. . . . He prefers writing, especially short stores. . . .”I like to work slowly, do about three a year, after many false starts. I sell them and make perhaps $1,500 to $1,800 a year. It’s not very much but, you see, after a few years, the residuals begin to come in—one is bought for television, another goes into an anthology—and you find yourself with a steady $15,000 a year. Which is fine, isn’t it?”
He says h would have gone on being happy like that but his son was injured in an accident and the hospital and doctor bills are enormous. . . “So I passed the word to my agent that I would do other things and here I am. I don’t particularly enjoy it.”