Speed Kings (44 page)

Kennedy, John F.,
271

Kennedy, Joseph,
230
,
238

Kern, Jerome,
68
,
69

Kerry, Norman,
270

Kieran, John,
83
–84,
92

Kilian, Hans,
86
,
91
,
93
,
183
,
187
–89,
191
,
272

Kirby, Gustavus T.,
58
–59,
86
,
88
–89,
153
–57,
173
,
191
–92

Knickerbocker, Suzy,
48
,
49
,
270
,
271

Krasnowski, Mademoiselle,
23
–24,
55

Krotki, Rudolf,
163

Kristallnacht,
214

Kubes, Milton,
140

La Guardia, Fiorello,
212

Lake Placid,
103
,
105
–7,
207
–11,
114

National Championship competition in,
153
,
154
,
156
,
157
,
166
,
181
,
190
,
191

1932 Winter Olympics in,
2
,
63
–64,
96
,
97
–100,
108
–16,
144
,
145
–46,
148
–58,
162
,
164
–66,
168
–71,
172
,
173
–92,
219
,
220
,
265
,
272

1980 Winter Olympics in,
63
,
66
,
99
,
272

Lambert, Ernest “Henri,”
55
,
83
–84,
86
,
91
–93

Langes, Gunther,
207
–8

Lapowski, Clarence,
see
Dillon, Clarence

Lardner, Ring,
69
,
71

Larisch, Count and Countess,
18

Larsen, Roald,
88

Lasky, Jesse,
75

Latvia,
57

Laughlin, James,
60
,
103

Lausanne,
65
,
71

Lawson, Colonel Sir John,
268

Le Mans 24-Hour endurance race,
6
,
13

League of Nations,
201

Leipziger, Henry,
104

Leo X, Pope,
15

Leonard, Bob,
40
,
41
,
271

Littlemore, Bill,
252
,
258

Lloyd George, David,
132

Lockhart, Ruby,
209

Logan, Colonel James A.,
11

Lombard, Carole,
270

London,
11
,
15
,
49
,
148
,
219
,
238
,
260

Cleaver in hospital in,
263

Eagan in,
138

Gray in,
76
,
77

Grey in,
67
,
68

Billy and Rose in,
221
,
229
,
232
–33,
236
,
239

Billy's drives between Cambridge and,
5
–6,
147

memorial for Billy in,
265
–68

Longhurst, Henry,
4
,
5
,
147
,
273

Loos, Anita,
38

Los Angeles,
142

1932 Summer Olympics in,
98
,
109

Luxembourg,
91

MacArthur, General Douglas,
58
,
59

Mahoney, Jeremiah,
212
–13

Malan, Adolph “Sailor,”
250
–51

Marion, Frances,
75
–76

Maris, Mona,
203

Market National Bank,
43

Marshall, Louis,
104

Martin, George W.,
154

Martin, James Stewart,
214

Martineau, Henry,
55
,
86
,
91
,
92

Martineau, Hubert,
22
–27,
53
,
55
,
56
,
59
,
93
,
220
–21

Martineau Trophy,
191

Marx brothers,
71

Mason, Geoffrey,
61
,
72
–73,
75
,
81
–83,
85
,
86
,
92
–94,
99

Mathey, Dean,
9

McEvoy, Freddie,
219
,
272
–73

McIntyre, Odd,
26
,
74
,
76
–79

McKinley, William,
43

McLemore, Henry,
181
–82,
188
,
191

McTigue, Mike,
139

Mdivani, David,
271

Melhorn, Hans,
167
–68

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM),
34
,
217
,
271

Mexico,
57

Miami,
42
,
47

Mildenhall (England),
5
,
147

Miller, Marilyn,
67
,
69
–70,
76

Miranda, Carmen,
227

Mistinguett,
77
–78

Mitchell, Harry,
138

Monaco,
5

Monte Carlo,
6
,
46

Montgomery, Field Marshal Bernard,
268

Moore, Owen,
75
–76

Morgan, Harry Hays,
27
,
148

Morgan, J. P.,
11

Morrison, Walt,
179

Mosessohn, David,
113
–14

Moulson, Tom,
220
,
247

Mumm, Baron Walther von,
170
,
186
,
187

Munro, Jack,
141

Murray, Mae,
34
–43,
71
,
271

Music Corporation of America,
74

Mussolini, Benito,
215
–16

Myberg, Lum,
119
,
123
–24

National Amateur Championship,
130

National League,
34

National Steeplechase and Hunt Association,
32

Nazis,
170
,
211
–14,
220
,
236
,
272

Neil, Edward J.,
146
,
156
–57,
162
–64,
167
–69,
171
,
183
,
184
,
188
,
190

Neil, Herman,
103

Netherland Cup,
83

Netherlands,
57

Newburger, Deputy Police Commissioner,
33

Newell, Cyril,
231

Newell, David,
203

New York City,
30
,
46
,
58
,
112
,
114
,
140
,
146
,
149
,
191
,
204

Amateur Athletic Union in,
151
,
212

Dillon, Read & Company in,
8
–9,
218
,
221
–22,
261

Eagan in,
130
–31,
133
,
142
,
211

Gray in,
74
–75,
77
,
195
,
208

Grey in,
68
,
70
,
74

Nazism of German consul in,
170

O'Brien in,
32
–42,
45
,
84
,
238

Rose Fiske in,
194
,
217
–18,
227
,
230

Walker as mayor of,
176
–77

New York State Education Department, Board of Regents of,
103
–5

New York State Legislature,
108
,
110
–12

New York Stock Exchange,
84

Nicholas I, King of Montenegro,
132

Nicoll, Wilf,
248
,
254

Nieminen, Toni,
94

Niven, David,
205
,
217

Nordic Games,
56
,
87
,
109

Norton, Al,
131

Norway,
56
,
135
,
236

Winter Olympics teams of,
87
–88,
94
,
145
,
174

Novello, Ivor,
67
,
76

Nuremberg Laws,
212

O'Brien, Dolly (Jay's third wife),
43
–49,
179
,
191
,
237
–38,
270
–71

O'Brien, Jay,
26
–27,
29
–49,
71
,
143
,
148
,
176
–77,
215
,
227

death of,
237
–38,
270

Dewey's antagonism toward,
115
–16,
149
,
151
–53,
155
–56,
170

family background of,
30
–31

gambling of,
32
–34,
42
,
84

horse racing by,
29
–32

in 1928 Winter Olympics,
28
,
59
–61,
62
,
81
–84,
86
,
90
–92,
99

in 1932 Winter Olympics,
151
–57,
164
,
168
,
170
,
176
,
178
–79,
187
–91,
245

and 1936 U.S. Olympic bobsled team,
208
,
209

Palm Beach home of,
195
,
227

romances and marriages of,
35
–49,
75
,
77
,
79

O'Brien, Mike,
135

O'Brien, Miles (Jay's father),
30
–31

O'Brien, Thomas (Jay's brother),
30
–31

O'Dowd, Mike,
133

O'Farrell, Val,
42

O'Hara, Ike,
125

Olavegoya Cup,
55
,
83

Oxford University,
135
–39,
179
,
185
,
220

Paige, Woody,
127

Papan, Lieutenant Alexei,
186
,
187
,
189

Papană, Alexandru,
164

Paramount Pictures,
37

Paris,
55
,
60
,
74
,
81
,
84
,
148
,
236

Churchill's RAF escort in,
245

1878 World's Fair in,
16

Fiske family home in,
11
,
12
,
26
,
148
,
202
,
213
,
226
,
269

Gray in,
74
–78

Inter-Allied Games,
131

International Bobsledding and Toboganning Federation congress in,
115
–16

Jay and Dolly in,
45
–47,
49

1924 Summer Olympics in,
57
,
139

Parke, Dick,
59
,
85
,
86
,
92

Patten, Gilbert,
121

Pegler, Westbrook,
142
,
156
,
169
–70,
178
,
180
,
181
,
185

Phillips, Mollie,
174

Pickford, Jack,
75
–76

Pim, Cecil,
55
,
86
,
91
,
92

Pirie, John,
139

Poland,
11
–12,
226

Winter Olympics teams of,
85
,
174

Polignac, Marquis de,
57
,
59

Poniatowski, Paulette,
215
–16

Porter, Fred,
111

Potocki, Prince Alfred,
11

Pryor, Sam,
133
,
135

Read, William,
7
–9

Reid, Wallace,
39

Rhodes-Moorhouse, Willie,
219
,
222
,
244
,
245
,
250
–52,
266

Rice, Earl,
122

Rickard, Tex,
138
–39

Riddle, Jack,
246
–47

Robertson, Sparrow,
60
–61,
79
,
81
,
82

Robinson, Peter,
247

Roch, Andre,
207
–8,
218

Roche, Al,
130

Romania,
57

1932 Winter Olympics team of,
163
,
164
,
186

Roosevelt, Eleanor,
171
,
268
–69

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
98
,
108
,
111
,
112
,
114
,
149
,
171
,
173
–76,
228
,
237

Ross, Harold,
207

Rossi, Count,
164
,
186
,
187

Ross Moore, James,
66
,
70
–73

Rossner, Heinrich,
167

Rothstein, Arnold “Ace,”
33
,
34
,
42
,
84
,
177

Rowan, Robert,
206

Royal Air Force (RAF),
219
–22,
225
,
226
,
228
–40,
242
,
243
–55,
262
,
266