Fifties (148 page)

Potter, David,
501

Powell, G. E.,
448

Power Elite, The
(Mills),
532-33

Powers, Francis Gary,
617
,
619-20
,
705-6
,
708-10
,
711

Powers, Richard Gid,
337-38
,
618

Prato, Gino,
645
,
646

Pratt, Waddy,
166-67

Presley, Elvis,
269
,
455-62
,
471-73
,
476-78
,
485
,
518
,
691

background of,
461-62

Bernstein on,
455-56

first recording of,
456-58

Sullivan and,
475-76
,
517

Presley, Gladys,
460
,
461
,
462
,
476-77

Presley, Priscilla,
518

Prettyman, Barrett,
422

Prince, Earl,
161

Prince and the Showgirl, The
,
564

Providence Journal
,
523

Purvis, Melvin,
338

Pusey, Nathan,
625

Rabb, Max,
426

Rabi, I. I.,
31
,
43
,
99
,
331
,
349
,
352

race, racism,
189
,
420-21

housing and,
141

see also
civil rights movement

Radford, Arthur,
395
,
396-97
,
405
,
406-7

radio,
4
,
22
,
73
,
198
,
215
,
463
,
501
,
642

television’s overtaking of,
180-87

Railton, Arthur,
638

Rankin, John,
13
,
189

Ratcliff, J. D.,
289

Rauschenbusch, Walter,
552

Ray, Nicholas,
456
,
484

Rayburn, Sam,
325
,
333

Raymond, Albert,
291

Reader’s Digest
,
229
,
282
,
321
,
503

Rebel Without a Cause
,
456
,
484

“Red, Hot and Blue,”
458
,
459

Redbook
,
589
,
595

Reece, B. Carroll,
9-10
,
280

Reed, James,
289

Reed, John,
285

Reed, Stanley,
15
,
420
,
421-22

Reeder, Russell,
110

Reedy, George,
51
,
55

Reeves, Rosser,
225-32
,
500
,
502

Reno Gazette
,
50

Reporter
,
189
,
231

Republican party, U. S.,
11
,
21
,
24
,
28
,
209
,
212-13
,
390-91
,
404
,
527
,
699

China Lobby and,
67-68

conservative wing of,
27
,
217

Dulles and,
388-89

internationalism and,
310-11

McCarthyism and,
56-58

1948 campaign and,
6-9

1952 election and,
204-5
,
212-13
,
228
,
235-36
,
358

World War II effect on,
3-5

Yalta agreement denounced by,
16-17

Reston, James “Scotty,”
18
,
222
,
441
,
707

Return to Peyton Place
(Metalious),
585

Reuther, Walter,
119

Revlon company,
643
,
644
,
646
,
647
,
656

Revson, Charles,
647

Revson, Martin,
646
,
647

Rexroth, Kenneth,
305
,
306

Rhee, Syngman,
64-65

Rhodes, Richard,
30

Rice, Thurman,
276

Richmond News-Leader
,
562

Rickover, Hyman,
625

Ridgway, Matthew,
396

Bradley on,
112

Indochina intervention opposed by,
404
,
406

Korean War and,
69
,
73
,
75
,
77
,
84
,
107
,
109-14

in World War II,
110-11

Riedl, John,
53

Riesman, David,
532-33

River and the Gauntlet, The
(Marshall),
108

Robb, Chuck,
454

Robb, Roger,
349
,
350

“Robert Alphonso Taft Story, The,”
58

Roberts, Chal,
707

Robinson, Bill,
209

Robinson, Jackie,
691-92

Robinson, Jo Ann,
544
,
545

Rock, John,
287
,
599
,
600-601
,
602
,
604

“Rock Around the Clock,”
460

Rockefeller, Nelson,
312
,
360
,
624

Rockefeller, Winthrop,
673

Rockefeller Foundation,
260
,
277
,
278
,
279-80
,
281

Rodgers, Richard,
473

Rogers, Ted,
240
,
241
,
242
,
325
,
730-31

Rogers, Will,
251

Rogers, William P.,
326
,
684

Roosevelt, Eleanor,
339

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
3-4
,
5
,
6
,
9
,
16-17
,
20
,
22
,
62-63
,
82
,
118
,
167
,
210
,
215
,
216-17
,
232
,
240
,
313
,
339
,
361
,
362
,
377
,
394
,
410
,
421
,
423
,
445

Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr.,
404

Roosevelt, Kermit,
359
,
360-62
,
364-67
,
369
,
370-71

Roosevelt, Teddy,
361
,
365

Rosenbaum, Ron,
140
,
141

Rosenhouse, Marty,
647

Rosenman, Samuel,
8

Route 66
,
630

Rovere, Richard,
59
,
67
,
241-42

Roy, Jules,
400

Rubin, Barry,
362
,
363-64

Rusk, Dean,
63
,
280
,
281

Russell, Bill,
693-97

Russell, Ray,
572-73

Russell, Richard,
222
,
372

Rust, John Daniel,
445-48
,
450
,
451
,
453

Rust, Mack,
445
,
447
,
448

Rust, Thelma,
453

Rustin, Bayard,
560

Ryan, Kate Halberstadt Bender,
323-24

Ryan, Will,
323-24

Sahl, Mort,
321
,
613

Saint, Eva Marie,
655

Sakharov, Andrei,
47
,
92
,
99-100

Salan, Raoul,
399
,
400

Salisbury, Harrison,
383
,
386

Sandburg, Carl,
443

San Diego Evening Tribune
,
340

Sandoe, James,
61

Sanger, Bill,
283
,
284
,
285

Sanger, Margaret,
282-88
,
292
,
293
,
602
,
605

background of,
283-85

Catholic Church and,
282-83
,
286-87

McCormick and,
282
,
287-88
,
293
,
602

Pincus and,
293
,
604

Planned Parenthood and,
286
,
292
,
599

Saperstein, Abe,
694

Sarnoff, David,
202

Saturday Evening Post
,
175
,
193
,
234
,
465

Saturday Night Live
,
513-14

Schickel, Richard,
479
,
480
,
485

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.,
67
,
223

Schlesinger, Arthur, Sr.,
285

Schlesinger, Stephen,
376

Schnitzer, Gerry,
630-32

Schoenbrun, David,
229-30
,
389

Scholastic
,
472

Schorr, Daniel,
678

Scott, Hugh,
7

Searle Pharmaceutical Company,
291-92
,
598
,
599
,
603
,
605

Seay, Solomon,
544
,
557

Sedov, Leonid,
625

Segre, Elfriede,
41

Sellers, Clyde,
560

Selvin, Joel,
515
,
518

Selznick, David,
261

Selznick, Irene,
261-62
,
267

Senate, U. S.,
22
,
53
,
56
,
203-4
,
208
,
219
,
320
,
641
,
720

McCarthy censured by,
252-53

Senate Armed Services Committee,
191
,
372
,
403

Senate Committee on Government Operations,
252

Senate Finance Committee,
122

Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
56
,
720

“Sepia Swing Club,”
469

Serling, Rod,
481
,
513

Sevareid, Eric,
235

Seven Year Itch, The
,
567
,
568

Sexual Behavior in the Human Female
(Kinsey),
280

Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
(Kinsey),
272
,
273

Shah of Iran (Mohammed Reza Pahlavi),
361
,
363
,
364
,
365-68
,
370

“Shake Rattle and Roll,”
471

Shalett, Sidney,
193

Shapley, Harlow,
51

Sheehan, Robert,
129-30