Just One Catch (95 page)

Dubin's Lives

male adventure magazines

Manchester, William

Mandel, George

Flee the Angry Strangers

teenage writing for comics

Mandel, Miki

Manhattan

Manhattan Mutual Automobile Casualty Company

Mann, Thomas

“A Man Named Flute” (retitled story)

Maquis

Marceau, Marcel

marijuana

Marino, Benjamin “Doc”

market ideology

Markson, David

Marlis, Alan

Marquand, J. P.

Marquand (novelist, son of J. P. Marquand)

Marrakech

marriage

JH views on

Marsh, Reginald

Marshall, George

Mars-Jones, Adam

Marx Brothers

Maschler, Tom

M*A*S*H
(film)

M*A*S*H
(TV series)

Mason, Abby

Mason, Bob

Massie, Bob

Massie, Christopher and Sofia

Matthau, Walter

Matthiessen, Peter

Max, D. T., “The Twilight of the Old Goats”

May, Elaine

Mayer, Martin,
Madison Avenue, U.S.A.

Mayes, Herbert

Mays

McCall, Cheryl

McCall's

McCarthy, Eugene

McCarthy, Joseph

McCarthy, Mary, “Dottie Makes an Honest Woman of Herself”

McCartney, Paul

McCormack, Miss

McCormick, Ben

McCullers, Carson

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Reflections in a Golden Eye

McCullough, Edo

McGovern, George

McHale's Navy

McIntosh, Mavis

McIntosh & McKee

McKee, Elizabeth

McQueen, Jerry

medical narratives

Mehta, Sonny

“
Mein Kampf
of matrimonial warfare”

Meltzer, Jay I.

Melville, Herman

Moby Dick

Mencken, H. L.

In Defense of Women

Meredith, Scott

Merrick, David

Merrill, Sam

Merrill Anderson Company

Merton, Thomas

Messner, Tom

metafiction, as metaevent

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mewhaw, Michael

Miami Beach, Florida

Michaels, Leonard

Michaels, Dr. Robert

Michelangelo,
Last Judgment

Michigan State University

Mid-Atlantic Air Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania

midrash

Mile Sky Chaser, Coney Island

Military Personnel Records Facility of the National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis

milk runs

Miller, Glenn

Miller, Ken

Milton, John

Minderbinder, Milo (character)

Minoff, Lee

Minor, Dale

Mitford, Jessica

Mogulesco, Sigmund

Moisheh Kapoyer
character

Molenaar, Toby

money

JH's worries about

and life, JH's belief

Monroe, Marilyn

Montagne, Edward J.

Montauk

Moody, Hall A.

Moon, Earl C.

Moore, Grace

Morgan, Margaret

Morris, Willie

Morris, Wright

Moses, Robert

Moses' Candy Store, Coney Island

Moskowitz, Mark,
Stone Reader
(film)

Mostel, Zero

“Moths at a Dark Bulb,” 510n345

Motion Picture Association of America

Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount Vesuvius

movies, going to, as child

Moyers, Bill

Moynihan, Daniel

Muhlen, Norbert

Mulcahy, Susan

multiculturalism

Municipal Bath House, Coney Island

Munsey, Frank

“Murdock, His Son, and a Man Named Flute” (rejected story title)

Mussolini

Myers, Vincent “Chief”

Nabokov, Vladimir

Laughter in the Dark

Nagasaki

Naples

Nassau

Natal, Brazil

Nathan's

National Allied Publishing

National Book Awards

National Guardian

National Institute of Arts and Letters

navigator, JH's training as, and near fatal miscalculations

NBC

Nedelkoff, Robert

Nemerov, Howard

neoconservatives

neo-Nazis

Nesbit, Lynn

New American Library

Newcomb, Jonathan

Newhouse, Si

Newhouse, Thomas

The New Leader

New Left

Newman, Paul

Newport Beach

Newsweek

New World Writing

issue number 7 (April 1955)

New York

fictionalized

housing shortage and urban renewal

New York
(magazine)

New York American

New York
Daily News

The New Yorker

New York intellectuals

New York Police Department

New York Post

New York Times

New York Times Book Review

New York University (NYU)

New York World-Telegram

Nichols, Mike

Nickelodeon

Nixon, Richard

Nolan, Tom

No Laughing Matter
(with Irving Vogel)

conception and writing of

editing of

reviews

Nordell, Roderick

Norden bombsight

Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia

Normandy Invasion

North Africa

Norway, Arctic region

“Nothing to Be Done”

Novak, Robert

Novelty Comics

Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here
(autobiography)

reviews of

Oceans Eleven
(movie)

O'Connor, Flannery

O'Day, Anita

Offit, Sidney

Ogilvy, David

O'Hara, John

Ohrbach's

Oldsey, Bernard

Olson, Neil

Omni Health and Racquet Club, Southampton

O'Neill, Eugene

One Night of Love

Ono, Yoko

Opferman, Gabriele

organization man

Orthodox Jews

Orvieto

Osner Business Machines

Oxford University

Paddy Shea's saloon, Coney Island

The Pages That Sell
(slide show)

Palestine

Paley, Grace

Pantheon

panty raids

paperback books

Parachute Jump, Coney Island

Paramount/Filmways

Paramount Pictures

Parfrey, Adam

It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps

Paris, France

Parish, Mitchell

Parker, Jimmie

Parsons, Estelle

Partini, Dolly

Partisan Review

Pastrudi's, Cairo

Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, New York Hospital

Peck, Abe

Peck or Beck, Miss

Peloponnesian War

Pennsylvania State College

Pentagon

Pentagon Papers

People

Pepsi-Cola

Percy, Walker,
The Moviegoer

Perelman, S. J.

Philbin, Regis

Phillipe (pet dog)

Phillips, William

Picasso, Pablo

Guernica

Picker, David

Picture This
(novel)

reviews of

Pietrasanta

Pinsker, Sanford

Pirandello, Luigi

P. J. Clarke's

Plato

Phaedrus

Plato's Retreat (sex club)

Playboy

Plimpton, George

PM

Pocket Books

Podhoretz, Norman

Ex-Friends

Making It

“My Negro Problem—and Ours”

Poe, Edgar Allan

Poggibonsi

Pointe des Issambres

Polhemus, Robert

politics

JH's insight into

post-World War II

Pollock, Jackson

Pollock, Lewis

Polykoff, Shirley

Does She … or Doesn't She?
160

Pompeii, Italy

Pont-Saint-Martin

Port Authority Bus Terminal

Porter, Arabel J.

Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man
(novel)

conception and writing of

publication planned

reviews

Port Said

postmodernism

poverty, threat of

Preminger, Otto

Prentiss, Paula

presidential election of 1968

Presley, Elvis

Pritchard, William H.

Pritikin Institute

proletarian fiction

prostitutes

Provenzano, Tony

Provenzano family

PS 188, Coney Island

Psalms

“PT 73, Where Are You?”

Publishers Weekly

publishing business

pulp fiction

Putnam

Putnam Berkley

Puzo, Erika

Puzo, Mario

The Godfather

Pynchon, Thomas

V

Rabinowitz, Murray

Rafaello,
S.S.

Rainer, Yvonne

Random House

rationing, wartime

Rauschenberg, Robert

Raynor, Richard

RCA

Reader's Digest

Reagan, Ronald

The Realist

rebellion, spirit of

Rebel Without a Cause
(film)

Redbook

Red Queen prop

Red scares

Reilly, Charlie

Reiner, Carl

Rembrandt van Rijn

Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer

Remington Rand

Republicans

Rexroth, Kenneth

Reynolds, Paul

Rhodes, Wendy

Rhône River

Rich, Mokoto

Richler, Mordecai

Riegelmann, Edward

Riegelmann Boardwalk, Coney Island

the Right

Ritter, Edward

Ritterman, Phyllis

Riverside Drive

Robards, Jason

Robbins, Harold

The Carpetbaggers

Robin (waitress)

Rockefeller, Nelson

Rockefeller Foundation

Rockwell, George Lincoln

Rockwell, Norman

Rodia, Simon

Roethke, Theodore

roller coasters

Rolling Stone

Romano, Carlin

Rome, Italy

R&R in

Rome, John B.

Romeo Salta restaurant

Ronco Scrivia, Italy

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Roosevelt, Teddy

Rose, Si

Rosenberg, Harold

Rosetta's Lighting and Supplies

Rosoff, Danny “the Count”

Ross, Steve

Rosset, Barney

Rossner, Judith,
Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Roth, Henry

Roth, Philip

The Ghost Writer

Portnoy's Complaint

“Writing American Fiction”

Rothbard, Murray N.

Rover Boy series

R&R (rest and recreation) in the military

in Rome

Ruas, Charles

Rubin, Joseph

Ruderman, Judith

Ruhe, Herbert

Runyon, Damon

Rusk Institute

Russell, Bertrand

Russia

Russian language

Russian Tea Room

Sabbath observance

Sahl, Mort

St. Catherine's College, Oxford University

St. Croix

Saint-Tropez, France

Sale, Faith

Sale, Richard B.

Sales, Grover

Saliba, Keith

Salinger, J. D.

Catcher in the Rye

Franny and Zooey

Salkin, Zygmunt

Salter, James

Sammy the Pig's pool room, Coney Island

Samuel 1 and 2 (Bible)

Samuel French

San Angelo, Texas

Sanford, Jay

San Remo bar, MacDougal Street, New York

Santa Ana Army Air Base, Santa Ana, California

Santa Anita racetrack, Los Angeles

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe Railroad

Saroyan, William

Hello Out There

The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Review

Save Washington Square Committee

Sawyer, Tom

Scapegoat company

Schaare, Harry

Schall, Deborah

Schama, Simon,
The Embarrassment of Riches

Schiff, Ellen

Schisgal, Murray

schizophrenia

Schlesinger, Arthur

Schulberg, Budd

Schultz, Charles

Schuster, Max

Schwartz, David R.

Schwartz, Gary,
Rembrandt: His Life, His Paintings

Schwed, Peter

Turning the Pages

Sea Gate

Sebald, W. G.

Secker & Warburg

Secretariat

Seed, David

The Fiction of Joseph Heller: Against the Grain

Segal, Clancy

Selective Service Act

Sellers, Peter

Sencer, Walter

September 11, 2001, terrorist event

Setzer, Daniel

“Seven against the Sea” (TV drama)

Seventies

Sex and the Single Girl
(film)

“Sex in Literature” (panel discussion)

sexual morality

shadchans
(marriage brokers)

Shakespeare, William

Shaw, Don

Shaw, Irwin

Sheehy, Gail

Shepherd, Jean

Sheresky, Norman M.

Shipman, Robert Oliver

Shirer, William,
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Shorter, Mr. (worked for Western Union)

Show

Shuttleworth, Jack

Siegel, Nat

Siena, Italy

Silvers, Robert