Fifties (134 page)

Read Fifties Online

Authors: David Halberstam

BOOK: Fifties
7.86Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub

274
“YEARS AGO MY BANKER:
Pomeroy, p. 50.

274
HE ONCE TOLD A COLLEAGUE, WARDELL:
Pomeroy, p. 8.

274
AFTER HIS DEATH WARDELL POMEROY:
Pomeroy, p. 472.

274
“NOW, BRUCE,” KINSEY SAID:
Pomeroy, p. 29.

274
TO ONE YOUNG MAN WHO APPLIED:
Pomeroy, p. 71.

275
AS A BOY HE COLLECTED STAMPS:
Pomeroy, p. 16.

275
HE WROTE HIS FIRST BOOK:
Christenson, p. 29.

275
EARLE MARCH, A SAN FRANCISCO:
Pomeroy, p. 166.

276
CLARA KINSEY WAS KNOWN ON:
Wickware, “Report on Kinsey,” p. 98.

276
WHEN HE BEGAN HIS STUDIES:
Pomeroy, pp. 72–73.

276
BY
1939
HE WROTE TO A:
Christenson, p. 107.

277
THOSE WHO THOUGHT HE WOULD DO:
Christenson, p. 113.

277
THE WAR MADE THINGS HARDER:
Christenson, p. 114.

279
HIS CRITICS WERE, HE NOTED:
Pomeroy, p. 284.

279
“AND THEN THERE ARE SOME:
Pomeroy, p. 147.

280
KINSEY TURNED HIM DOWN:
Pomeroy, p. 346.

280
THEN THE FIRESTORM BEGAN:
Pomeroy, p. 364.

280
THE WORST THING ABOUT THE REPORT:
Christenson, p. 162.

280
AGAIN KINSEY WAS DISHEARTENED:
Pomeroy, p. 160.

281
LATER IN ANOTHER LETTER TO RUSK:
Christenson, p. 190.

281
“DAMN THAT RUSK:
Pomeroy, p. 16.

281
ANDERSON PLEADED WITH HIM:
Christenson, p. 193.

281
“IT IS A SHAME,” HE NOTED:
Christenson, p. 199.

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

283
IT WAS SHE WHO INTRODUCED US:
Gray,
Margaret Sanger: A Biography of the Champion of Birth Control,
pp. 58–59.

284
I AM ANARCHIST, TRUE, BUT:
Gray, p. 74.

284
OH, JULIET, THERE NEVER WAS:
Gray, p. 159.

284
LOOK THE WHOLE WORLD IN THE FACE:
Kennedy,
Birth Control in America,
p. 1.

286
IT WAS NO LONGER MY LONE FIGHT:
Reed,
From Private Vice to Public Virtue,
p. 112.

286
IF YOU LIKE MY RELIGION:
Gray, p. 158.

286
IT IRKS MY VERY SOUL:
Reed, p. 112.

287
RICH AS CROESUS:
Vaughan,
The Pill on Trial,
p. 25.

287
HE WAS RATHER SHOCKED:
Gray, p. 438.

288
YOU HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE:
Author interview with Oscar Hechter.

288
BUT THIS IS JUST A CRUISING:
Author interviews with Laura Pincus Bernard, John Alexis Pincus, and Oscar Hechter.

288
A CONTENTED JEWISH PEASANTRY:
Pauly,
Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology,
p. 185.

289
SCARED PEOPLE, CREATING VISIONS:
Reed, p. 321.

289
RABBITS BORN IN GLASS:
The New York Times
(April 8, 1934), VIII 6:4.

289
PICTURED PINCUS AS A SINISTER:
Reed, p. 321.

289
MAN’S VALUE WOULD SHRINK:
Ratcliff,
Colliers,
March 20, 1937, p. 73.

292
PINCUS WAS VERY GENTLE:
Author interview with John Pincus.

292
LIZUSKA, EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE:
Vaughn, p. 6.

293
GOODY, HOW DID YOU GET:
Author interview with Oscar Hechter.

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

296
IF THERE WAS ONE FIGURE WHO:
Nicosia,
Memory Babe,
p. 475.

296
“WELL, WELL!” CARR SAID:
Miles,
Ginsberg,
p. 36.

296
HE HAD TO BE A GENIUS:
Morgan,
Literary Outlaw,
p. 102–3

296
GINSBERG WROTE IN HIS JOURNAL:
Morgan, p. 89.

297
DETERMINED TO BE A WRITER:
Gifford and Lee,
Jack’s Book,
p. 34.

297
KEROUAC’S FIRST IMPRESSION:
Miles, p. 44

297
GINSBERG WROTE HIS OLDER:
Miles, p. 39.

297
BURROUGHES, GINSBERG AND KEROUAC:
Gilford and Lee, p. 38.

298
THE DEAN LOOKED AT HIM:
Miles, p. 60

298
THESE YOUNG REBELS DID NOT:
Morgan, p. 96.

298
THE ASPIRED TO BECOME:
Gifford and Lee, p. 39.

299
“THESE JERKS,” BURROUGHES ONCE:
Morgan, pp. 139–40.

299
“WHERE IS YOUR FORMER, FINE:
Miles, p. 59.

300
SHARING THE SUBWAY CAR WITH:
Holmes,
GO,
pp. 140–41

300
IN
GO
HOLMES DESCRIBED:
Holmes, p. 36.

301
THE FIRST WORDS THAT NEAL CASSADY:
Cassady,
Off the Road,
p. 2.

301
MARIJUANA, THEN KNOWN AS TEA:
Holmes, p. 141.

301
AS BARRY GIFFORD AND LAWRENCE:
Gifford and Lee, p. 170.

301
LATER, THE DEFINITION WAS REINVENTED:
Morgan, p. 154.

301
MALCOLM COWLEY, THE DISTINGUISHED:
Gifford and Lee, p. 187.

302
THAT, GREGORY CORSO LIKED TO:
Gifford and Lee, pp. 180–81.

302
HOLMES NOTED THAT DOWN DEEP:
Gifford and Lee, p. 129.

302
KEROUAC DESCRIBED HIM IN:
Kerouac,
On the Road,
p. 5.

303
WHAT HE EXEMPLIFIED, TED MORGAN:
Morgan, p. 159.

303
“WHEN NEAL CAME TO TOWN:
Gifford and Lee, p. 127.

303
KEROUAC SEEMED A MAN:
Gifford and Lee, p. 129.

304
ON THIS POINT HOLMES HELD:
Holmes, pp. xx-xxi.

304
HE WROTE IT, HIS FRIEND JOHN:
Gifford and Lee, p. 156.

304
IT WAS, IN HOLMES’S WORDS:
Gifford and Lee, p. 157.

304
THE PROBLEM, HE ADDED:
Cassady, p. 187.

305
GIL MILSTEIN, A TALENTED:
Gifford and Lee, p. 170.

305
IT WAS TIME, HE DECIDED:
Miles, p. 135.

305
HE WROTE KEROUAC, “I AM:
Miles, p. 185.

305
THE RESULT WAS POETRY AS IF:
Miles, p. 188.

306
FERLINGHETTI AGREED TO PUBLISH:
Miles, p. 193.

306
“IT HAD,” TED MORGAN LATER:
Morgan, p. 256

306
“THIS POEM WILL MAKE YOU FAMOUS:
Miles, p. 196.

306
FERLINGHETTI SENT GINSBERG A CABLE:
Morgan, p. 257.

306
ON THE ROAD
OFFERED A NEW VISION:
Kerouac, p. 3.

306
WHAT KEROUAC DID, TED MORGAN:
Morgan, p. 288.

307
QUITE THE CONTRARY: “THE FIRST:
Miles, p. 232.

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

311
ALL THEY TALKED ABOUT WAS:
Adams,
First Hand Report,
p. 20.

312
I HAVE TO NOMINATE THAT DIRTY:
Morris,
Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician,
p. 734.

313
A LITTLE MAN IN A BIG HURRY:
Morris, p. 739.

313
PLAYS BOTH SIDES AGAINST THE MIDDLE:
Morris, p. 447.

313
THE COMMIES DON’T LIKE IT:
Morris, p. 564.

314
HIS TELEVISION ADVISER IN HIS SUCCESSFUL:
Personal interview with Roger Ailes.

314
THOUGH THE FAMILY LIVED ON A FARM:
Ambrose,
Nixon,
p. 20.

315
AS NIXON’S COUSIN JESSAMYN WEST:
Morris, p. 25.

315
HE WAS NOT A QUAKER:
Interviews with Paul Smith, Guy Dixon, Douglas Ferguson, Hubert Perry, Merton Wray, Paul Ryan, Merel West, Olive and Oscar Mashburn, Dorothy Milhous, Charles Milhous, Jane Milhous Beeson, Ralph Shook, Lucile Parson, Samuel Warner, Madeline Thomas, Elizabeth Cloes, Marcia Elliot Wray, Saragrace Frampton, and Laura Walfrop from the archives of the Cal Fullerton Library.

315
THE HARDEST PIECE OF SOIL:
Cal Fullerton Library.

315
HE NEVER MADE A PENNY:
Cal Fullerton Library.

316
I AM NOT GOING TO WEAR:
Cal Fullerton Library.

316
WHEN THE OIL BOOM STRUCK:
Lurie,
The Running of Richard Nixon,
p. 22.

316
HE ALWAYS CARRIED SUCH A WEIGHT:
Morris, p. 61.

316
THERE WAS, SHE THOUGHT TOO:
Lurie, p. 22.

317
ONE WHO HAS KNOWN RICHARD:
Morris, p. 848.

317
NOR FOR THAT MATTER WAS BEWLEY:
Cal Fullerton Library.

318
SHE DID HER PART NICELY:
Ambrose, p. 99.

318
WHEN SHE PRETENDED NOT TO BE:
Nixon,
Pat Nixon: The Untold Story,
p. 58.

318
YES—I KNOW I’M CRAZY:
Nixon, p. 58.

318
IT IS OUR JOB TO GO FORTH:
Nixon, p. 68.

318
THEIR WEDDING RING COST
$324.75
:
Nixon, p. 68.

319
TOO MANY RESTRICTIONS ETC.:
Nixon, p. 82.

319
WHETHER IT’S THE LOBBY:
Nixon, p. 83.

319
I AM WRITING YOU THIS SHORT:
Morris, p. 271.

320
NIXON LIFE STORY LIKE FILM:
Morris, p. 606.

321
I THINK: WILL IT PACK:
Nixon, p. 187.

322
YOU CANNOT BE TIRED, YOU:
Ambrose, p. 96.

322
I DETEST TEMPER; I DETEST SCENES:
Nixon, p. 21.

324
THE MANAGER OF OUR DEPARTMENT:
Nixon, pp. 47–48.

325
NIXON HAD THE MOST HATEFUL FACE:
Author interview with Larry King.

325
IT WAS, ROGERS LATER DECIDED:
Author interview with Ted Rogers.

325
HE WAS MOST COMFORTABLE:
Author interview with Helen Gahagan Douglas.

325
I GUESS I CAN MAKE IT:
Nixon, p. 115.

325
I DON’T THINK I CAN:
Nixon, p. 122.

326
IN PUBLIC, HE WOULD ALWAYS PRAISE:
Author interview with James Bassett.

326
OUR HEARTS WERE BREAKING:
Nixon, p. 424.

327
JIM BASSETT, WHO WORKED WITH NIXON:
Author interview with James Bassett.

327
HE’S NEVER LIKED ME:
Author interview with Len Hall.

327
NO, NO, DEAR DON’T DO THAT:
Author interview with Mollie Parnis.

331
HOW COULD THAT BE:
Ambrose, p. 801.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

329
INDEED OPPENHEIMER LATER JOKED:
Stern,
The Oppenheimer Case,
p. 206.

330
HE EVEN APOLOGIZED LIGHTLY:
Stern, p. 111.

330
THEY SHOULD LEAVE THIS TO OPPIE:
interview with Victor Weisskopf.

331
“HE WAS,” WEISSKOPF SAID DRILY:
interview with Weisskopf.

331
“THE DIFFERENCE WITH ME:
interview with Hans Bethe.

331
“SOME PEOPLE PROFESS GUILT:
Ulam,
Adventures of a Mathematician,
p. 224.

331
“OUR PLANE SEEMED TO STAND:
Blair and Shepley,
The Hydrogen Bomb,
p. 63.

332
AT THE TIME, HERBERT MARKS:
Stern,
The Oppenheimer Case,
p. 206.

333
“HARRY,” GREEN SAID:
interview with Harold Green.

335
OPPENHEIMER, IN THE WORDS OF THE AEC:
Green, “The Oppenheimer Case.”

333
STRAUSS BROOKED NO DISSENT:
Joseph and Stewart Alsop,
We Accuse,
p. 19.

334
YET WHAT WAS TAKING PLACE:
interview with Green.

336
HIS JOB WAS SOON DISSOLVED:
Sullivan,
The Bureau,
p. 108.

336
HIS LUNCH RARELY VARIED:
Powers,
Secrecy and Power,
p. 314.

336
IN TRUTH, HE OFTEN BET:
Sullivan, p. 87.

336
HOOVER WOULD STAY IN:
Powers, p. 314.

336
HE ENSHRINED THE AMERICAN:
Hoover,
Masters of Deceit,
p. 16.

337
AS TWENTIETH-CENTURY STANDARDS:
Powers, pp. 3–4.

338
THEREAFTER THE ANTEROOM:
Powers,
G-Men,
p. 114.

338
BUT HOOVER FOUGHT OFF:
Powers,
G-Men,
p. 115.

338
“NO ORGANIZATION THAT I KNOW:
Theoharis and Cox,
The Boss,
pp. 160–61.

Other books

Hot for His Hostage by Angel Payne
The Healers Apprentice by Melanie Dickerson
Brush Strokes by Dee Carney
Almost Perfect by Dianne Blacklock
Drowning Barbie by Frederick Ramsay
Thick as Thieves by Peter Spiegelman
Never Say Never by Tina Leonard
Jubilee Trail by Gwen Bristow