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A

Adams, Samuel Hopkins 89-90, 208-9, 569-72, 776, 778

Adler, Elmer 144, 183-4, 194-5, 197-200

Alexander, Ben 433

Allen, Charles 66-8, 869-72

Allen, Fred 738-9, 741-3

Allen, Portland 741

Allen, Steve 738, 742, 743

Arlen, Michael 86-7

Astor, Mary 470-4

Auden, W. H. 645-8

Axelrod, George 946
B

Ballantine, Ian 609-13

Ballard, Lucinda 258

Bankhead, Tallulah 154

Barnhart, Clarence 712-3, 715, 718

Barton, Ralph 102, 214, 224

Baxterm Anne 767-8

Beach, Sylvia 262, 263

Behrman, Sam 244, 202

Benchley, Robert 95-6

Benjamin, Curtis 868

Benson, Sally 564-5

Berlin, Irving 220-1, 674

Bernstein, Robert 886-8, 996, 1020

Bassie, Simon Michael 902, 905, 907-8

Billingsley, Sherman 437-8

Birch, Sherman 14-5

Birkins, Dr. Sherman 14

Bishop, James 836-9

Black, Douglas 621-2

Blaisdell, Douglas 843-8, 878

Block, Hal 730, 732, 735-7

Bodenheim, Maxwell 113

Boni, Albert 98-9

Bonino, Louise 318, 320-1, 425-6, 455, 458, 460, 808

Bourne, Nina 919-20

Bowen, Catherine Drinker 360-1

Boyd, Ernest 190-1

Boyd, Madeline 190

Bradley, Omar 256

Brand, Harry 928-9

Breslauer, Milton 1010

Brett, George 534-5 799

Brinkley, William 962

Broun, Heywood 832

Brown, Cecil 483-4, 779

Brown, John Mason 542-4, 591, 593

Budlawn, John Mason 583

Burnett, Whit 315, 376-7, 465-6

Burrell, John Angus 58, 60, 357-8

Butler, Nicholas Murray 44-6, 49, 55
C

Canby, Henry Seidel 503-4

Canfield, Cass 503, 606, 608, 822, 839-40, 955

Capote, Truman 687-706

Carlisle, Kitty 680, 682, 684 835-6, 940-1

Carroll, Gordon 1011

Carson, Johnny 948-9

Cerf, Christopher 47, 444, 447, 453-4, 880, 1024, 1028-9

Cerf, Eva 446

Cerf, Fredericka Wise 3-5, 9, 11, 12, 27

Cerf, Gustave 2-4, 9, 12, 18, 27, 31, 33-4, 38, 73, 137, 235, 312-4, 439, 444-7

Cerf, Jonathan 47, 450, 880, 1029

Cerf, Phyllis Fraser 235-6, 240, 335-6, 337-8, 358, 423, 427, 429-47, 449-53, 457-8, 461-4, 485-7, 506, 568, 574, 593, 668, 684, 688, 699, 701-3, 707, 750, 753-4, 767-8, 783, 796, 809-10, 813-4, 825, 857, 922-5, 928, 930-1, 940-2, 948, 966, 996, 1024, 1028

Chambers, Esther 857-8, 860

Chambers, Whittaker 850, 852-61

Clapp, Jack 157

Clark, Eleanor 551, 557

Clarke, Walter Van Tillburg 766-8

Commager, Henry Steele 798-9

Commins, Saxe 327, 475-6, 478, 485, 535, 547, 643-4, 712, 823, 1015

Considine, Robert 480, 789-94

Cornell, Katherine 525-7

Cousins, Norman 503-5, 507, 591, 595, 755

Coward, Noel 92-3, 98

Cowles, Fleur 707, 809

Cowles, Gardner 635-6, 809

Cox, Wally 742

Crawford, Joan 257, 260

Cregar, Laird 354-5, 774-5

Crighton, Robert 980-2

Cummings, Nathan 964-5
D

Daly, John 730-3, 735-6, 739-40, 743, 747-9, 751

Dana, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 55

Dann, Michael 751

Davidson, Jo 284-6, 408-9, 411

Davies, Marion 249-50

deGraff, Robert 610, 620

Dewey, Al 697-8

Dietz, Howard 7, 17, 21-2, 24-5, 254-6, 257-8

Dinesen, Isak 359-60

Dodd, Marion 88

Dodd, Martha 315-8

Dorne, Al 1010-1

Douglas, Norman 225-9

Dreiser, Theodore 72-3, 159-64

Drury, John 935

Dulles, Allen 841

Durante, Walter 301, 303

Dystel, Oscar 613
E

Edey, Maitland 319-20

Edman, Irwin 18

Egan, Francis 846

Eisenhower, Dwight D. 708

Ellis, Havelock 247-9

Emerson, John 151-5

Enoch, Curt 609-10, 632

Epstein, Jason 620-2, 647, 655

Ernst, Morris 262-3, 264, 266-7

Erskine, Albert 338-9, 405-7, 536, 546, 549-51, 554-6, 655-6, 1015

Erskine, Marissa 555-6
F

Fadiman, Clifton 946

Farley, Walter 807-8

Farnol, Lynn 232

Farrell, James 975

Faulkner, Estelle 330-1, 346-7

Faulkner, Jill 330-1-2, 346-7, 349-50

Faulkner, John 344-5

Faulkner, William 325-36, 337-41, 344-6, 349, 350-4, 926, 969

Finkelhoffe, Fred F. Jr. 524

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield 455-6

Flynn, Errol 747

Fonda, Henry 1006

Fonda, Jane 1006

Ford, Ford Maddox 120

Fox, Joseph 655, 698

Francis, Arlene 730, 732, 735-7, 739, 743-4

Frankfurter, Felix 392

French, Alfred Lewis 189-91

Friede, Donald 165-7, 179-80

Frith, Michael 464

Fulbright, J. William 639-40
G

Garbo, Greta 691

Garland, Judy 523-4, 747

Geddes, Norman Bel 527-9

Geis, Bernard 826, 1000-6

Geisel, Helen 460-2

Geisel, Theodore "Dr. Seuss" 458-62

Gershwin, George 370-1, 471, 595-604

Gershwin, Ira 600

Getzloe, Harvey 294-300, 303, 307, 309, 312

Gildersleeve, Virginia 41

Gillette, George W. T. 45

Glasgow, Ellen 331-2

Goering, Herman 317-8

Goldwyn, Samuel 232

Goodson, Mark 729-30, 741, 750-1

Gottleib, Robert 658-9, 907, 919-20

Gould, Allen 421

Grabhorn, Edwin 199, 200

Greenberg, Abe 14

Grosset, Donald 604-6, 614

Guggenheim, Harry 814, 824-5

Guinzburg, Alice 309-10, 369

Guinzburg, Harold 272, 288-312, 368-70, 917

Gunther, John 687
H

Haas, Robert 202-3, 318-20, 322, 359-61, 363-7, 455-6, 476-8, 513-5, 713-4, 716-7, 865

Hadas, Moses 710-1

Halliday, Ricard 232-4

Hamilton, Hamish 566-8

Hamilton, Patrick 354-6, 774-5

Hammarskjold, Dag 997

Hammerstein, Oscar 53

Hammett, Dashiell 328-9, 520-2, 525

Harriman, Averell 827-8, 830-4

Harriman, Marie 830-1, 833

Harris, Jed 673-4

Harris, Sam 675-6

Hart, Larry 243

Hart, Moss 243, 443-4, 451-2, 671-86, 858, 939-41, 943, 971-3

Hartnett, Gabby 314

Haydn, Hiram 902-5, 908, 943-4, 950, 982

Hayes, Arthur Garfield 126-7, 169-70

Hayes, Helen 525, 527

Hayes, Mary 809-10

Hearst, William Randolph 249-50

Hecht, Ben 530

Helburn, Theresa 250

Hellman, Geoffrey 576-7

Hellman, Lillian 75, 101, 522, 578

Hemingway, Ernest 530-2, 994-5

Hemingway, Mary 995

Henderson, Ralph 760-1, 763

Hibbard, Edna 53

Hillman, Sorel 971, 973

Hiss, Alger 852-5, 859, 861

Hoover, J. Edgar 423, 440-1

Hope, Bob 745-7

Hopkins, Miriam 123, 149, 192-3, 230, 235, 282-3, 566-8

Hornblow, Arthur 687

Hornblow, Lenore 686-7

Hotchner, A. E. 531-2, 994-5

Huebsch, Ben 116

Hull, Josephene 433

Hummell, Fred 106-7

Hyman, Mac 548-9
I

Ittelson, Henry 613c-d

Ives, Burl 221-2, 450-1

Ives, Elizabeth 818
J

Jeffers, Robinson 208-10

Johnson, Laybird 997

Johnson, Lyndon B. 996-7

Johnson, Malcolm 539-40

Jones, James 669

Joyce, James 262, 263-4, 267, 271, 272-3, 274-5

Joyce, Nora 273-4
K

Kahn, Otto 121-2, 152-3, 168

Kanber, MacKinlay 579-81

Kaufman, Beatrice 75, 77, 78, 86-7, 101, 159, 191, 243, 289, 404, 443, 473, 678-9, 815

Kaufman, George 243, 246, 289, 404, 442-3, 470-3, 602-3, 673-5, 677, 682-3, 809

Kaye, Danny 543-4, 678

Kefauver, Estes 809

Kennedy, Jacqueline 692, 704, 835-8

Kennedy, John F. 393-4, 836-7

Kennedy, Joseph 491-3

Kennedy, Robert 834-5, 839-40

Kent, Rockwell 144, 183, 194-8, 200-1

Kerr, Jean 256

Khrushchev, Nikita 827-8

Kilgallen, Dorothy 730, 732, 737, 739-41, 743-4, 748

Kingsley, Sidney 244

Klopfer, Donald 129-37, 138-43, 146-8, 173, 184, 186, 191, 195, 201-2, 269, 289, 311, 314, 315-6, 322, 341, 347-8, 465-6, 474, 476-8, 500, 508-9 515, 610, 613, 652, 656, 662-3, 685, 811, 831, 849-50, 865-8, 879-80, 885, 888, 900, 904-5, 909-10, 917, 925, 981, 1028

Klopfer, Marion 130-5

Knopf, Alfred 89-90, 116-8, 141-2, 185, 328, 521, 621, 657-60, 905-12, 916-7, 918-9

Knopf, Blanche 905-7, 911, 915-7, 919

Knopf, Edwin 117-9

Knopf, Pat 659, 902, 905-9, 918

Kommer, Rudolph 151-2

Komroff, Manuel 75, 101, 157, 170

Kreiswirth, Pauline 101

Kronenberger, Louis 101, 104

Kurnitz, Henry 576
L

LaGuardia, Fiorello 438-9

Langley, Adria Locke 651

Langner, Lawrence 247, 250

La Pasionaria 408-9

Lapolla, Paul 1016

Laski, Harold 310-1

Lawrence, D. H. 226-9

Lawrence, Freda 227-9

Lawson, Ted 481, 789, 791

Lazar, Irving 665-7, 670

Leach, Margaret 77

Lederer, Charles 930-1

Lee, Gypsy Rose 646

Lee, Harper 696-7, 705

Leigh, Colston 585, 590-1

Lerner, Alan 684-5

Lewis, Oscar 983

Lewis, Sinclair 451, 540-2, 974

Lin Yu Tang 763-5

Lindbergh, Charles A. 814-5

Lindsay, John V. 1026

Linscott, Robert 514, 548, 646, 687, 712, 805, 903

Litvak, Anatole 563-4, 566, 568-9

Liveright, Elise Bartlett (Mrs. Horace II) 169-70

Liveright, Horace 70-8, 80, 81, 82-4, 86-7, 88, 89, 90-2, 98, 99-107, 108, 109, 111-4, 116-28, 136-40, 141, 143, 145, 149, 159-63, 166-72, 180-3, 185, 206-7, 397, 595

Liveright, Lucille (Mrs. Horace) 103, 107

Loewe, Fritz 684-5

Loewy, Raymond 927

Loomis, Bob 655-6

Loos, Anita 151-5

Lowanstein, Anita 74

Luce, Henry 372

Luft, Sidney 523-4

Lyons, Leonard 573-7, 954
M

McArthur, Charles 530

MacArthur, Douglas 749-50

McCain, Jamies 694-7

McCarthy, Mary 805

McCullers, Carson 646-7

McDowell, David 850-1, 861, 878-9

McFee, William 544-5

McGovern, George 1026

McIntyre, Alfred 607-8

McKeon, Richard 769

McKuen, Rod 899, 933-4, 1024

MacLaine, Shirley 965

McMein, Neysa 448

Madden, Richard 207-8

Malraux, Andre 409-12, 517, 976

Manges, Horace 33, 995

Marquand, John P. 533

Marquand, Rube 22-3

Marquand, Sue 532

Marx, Sam 352-3

Mason, Daniel Gregory 128

Mason, Harold 326

Matthews, Herbert 25, 409-10

Maule, Harry 508, 539-40, 544-6, 903

Mayer, Edwin Justice 220-1

Mayer, Louis B, 256, 257, 350

Mayer, Marie 38-9

Mayes, Herbert 524, 974

Merrick, David 706

Merton, Thomas 769-70

Messner, Julian 75, 126-8

Mesta, Pearl 748-9

Meynell, Francis 173-5, 177-9, 204

Meynell, Vera 173-5

Michener, James 534-8, 799-801, 1015

Miller, Louis 322-4, 475, 476, 485, 509, 514-5

Miller, Marilyn 165-6

Minow, Newton 819-20

Mitford, Jessioa 1027

Mobley, Mary Anne 969

Monroe, Marilyn 928-33

Montenier, Dr. Marilyn 729, 731, 733

Morley, Christopher 504

Muggeridge, Malcolm 428

Murphy, George 39

Murphy, Thomas 857-8
N

Nichols, Bill 506, 753

Nichols, Louis 420-2

Nixon, Richard M. 851-5

Nizer, Louis 786

North, Sterling 541-2, 850-1

Nugent, Luci Johnson 997
O

Oates, Whitney 511

O'Connor, John 609, 611, 613a

O'Hara, John 497-8, 802-5, 975-6, 1027

Oller, Rose 810-1

O'Neill, Carlotta Monterrey 211, 214-22, 224, 450, 511-2

O'Neill, Eugene 75, 93-5, 116, 207-8, 210-24, 243, 245, 246, 251, 308, 450-1

O'Neill, Eugene Jr. 217, 200, 511-2

Oppenheimer, George 280

Ornitz, Samuel 111
P

Paley, Mrs. William 691, 702

Parker, Dorothy 75, 96-7, 522

Patch, Miss 249

Paterson, Alicia (Mrs. Harry Guggenheim) 434-5, 542, 813-4, 815-6, 824-5, 941-2

Paterson, Eleanor "Cissie" 793-4

Paterson, Joseph M. 793

Paul, Elliot 395-401, 451, 516

Pearlman, Alfred 926-7

Pegis, Tony 487, 797

Pegler, Westbrook 786

Pell, Arthur 82, 137-8, 163, 168-9

Perkins, Max 958-9

Picasso, Pablo 286-7

Pine, Virginia (Mrs. Quentin Reynolds) 785

Pound, Ezra 649-50

Proust, Marcel 261, 466-8
R

Rodziwill, Lee 691-2

Rand, Ayn 943-52

Reichenbach, Harry 516-7

Reynal, Eugene 549-50

Reynolds, Quentin 481-3, 781-7, 923

Rice, Harvey 759-60

Rich, John 989-90

Robb, Lynda Johnson 997

Rodgers, Morton 7, 32

Rodgers, Richard 7, 8, 32, 53, 975-6

Rogers, Ginger 428-32, 437

Rogers, Lela 423, 431-2, 437-41

Rogers, Will 586-8

Romney, George 942

Roosevelt, Eleanor 391

Roosevolt, Franklin D. 373, 381-94, 480-1, 518, 791

Roosevolt, Mrs. James D. 381

Rosenman, Samuel 380-1, 383-4, 388-9

Ross, Harold 288-90, 302, 427-30, 436-41

Roth, Philip 986, 1025

Roth, Samuel 262

Rukeyser, Merryle 17, 2405, 63

Russell, Jane 929

Ryskind, Morris 44, 49
S

Sanger, Elliot 18

Sarnoff, Gen. David 882-5, 897, 899, 1024-5

Saroyan, William 374-80, 465

Sartorius, Irving 62

Scharbert, Kyril 913-4

Scherman, Harry 201-3, 424, 465-6, 606, 608, 716-7

Schiff, Dorothy 575

Schiffrin, Andre 915

Schildkraut, Joseph 169-70

Schulberg, Ben 231, 642

Schulberg, Bud 640-4, 977

Schulte, Tony 919-20

Schuster, M. Lincoln 39, 70, 150, 954

Scribner, Charles 607-8, 610

Scribner, Charles Jr. 613-a

Seltzer, Thomas 260, 466

Selznick, David 353-4

Shaw, George Bernard 246-7, 248, 249-53

Shaw, Irwin 661-71

Shearer, Norma 254-5

Shaehan, Vincent 545, 787-9

Shenok, Elizabeth 591

Sherwood, Robert 97-8

Shimkin, Leon 604, 607, 614-5, 900, 919-20

Shirley, Anne 433

Shulman, Sammy 791-2

Sidney, Sylvia 230-41, 244, 314, 315, 316-7, 642

Silberman, James 655-6

Simon, John 656-7

Simon, Richard 39-40, 57-8, 69-71, 75, 81, 84-6, 112, 123, 150-1, 153-4, 156, 366-72, 484, 595, 689, 953-4,

Sinatra, Frank 884, 1004-5, 1018-20, 1024

Singer, Frances 842-4, 846

Singer, L. V. 842

Smith, Harrison 318-9, 325, 328-9

Smith, Paul 454

Smith, Tom 76, 80, 98, 101, 110-1

Snow, Edgar 372-4, 415

Sokolsky, George 416-20, 422, 861-5

Spellman, Francis dinal 495-503

Springer, John 1006

Spitzer, Marion 469-71

Steeves, Harrison 35, 53, 54, 60

Stein, Gertrude 277-9, 280-7

Stein, Jess 715, 718

Stevenson, Adlai 435, 813, 815-26

Stewart, George 770-2

Strachey, John 415

Styron, William 341-3, 345, 347-8, 982-3, 1024

Sullivan, Frank 258-60

Sumner, John 112-3, 362, 516-7, 797

Suppes, Pat 845-6, 891, 894

Susann, Jacqueline 1002-3, 1006

Sussman, Aron 477

Swope, Herbert Bayard 75, 78-9
T

Talese, Nan 666, 670-1, 681

Talmadge, Norma 46-7

Taylor, Elizabeth 979-80

Taylor, Frank 406-7, 550

Thalberg, Irving 25405

Thompson, David 402, 406-7, 411

Thompson, Fred 406-8

Thompson, Helen 401, 403-5, 413-5

Thorpe, Ed 986-7

Todd, Mike 979-80

Toklas, Alice B. 278-9, 280, 285-6

Toland, John 988-90

Tracy, Honor 499-500

Tregaskis, Richard 479

Truman, Harry 749-50, 826-9
U

Untermeyer, Louis 730, 732-3, 809
V

Vail, Gilbert 155

Vallee, Rudy 742

Van Doren, Carl 579-81

Van Doren, Irita 366-7

Van Loon, Henrik Willem 368-9

Van Vechten, Carl 278

Vercel, Roger 513-4

Vidal, Gire 690-1

Villard, Henry 492

Vinner, Mina 295-310

Vorhees, Lydia 763
W

Walker, James J. 113-5

Wallace, DeWitt 18, 757-60, 762, 782-4

Wallace, Lila (Mrs. De Witt) 761-2

Wallace, Mike 740

Wanger, Walter 238-9

Warburg, Kay Swift (Mrs. James) 471-2, 597

Ward, Mary Jane 561-4

Warren, Joanna 556-7

Warren, Robert Penn 551-4, 557

Weaver, Raymond 53, 54, 55-8, 60, 357

Weidman, Jerome 978-9

Weil, Chester 479, 795

West, Anthony 977

West, Nathanael 520

Weybright, Victor 609-10, 632

White, Theodore 998-9

Whitehead, Don 421

Wilhelm, Gail 468-9

Williams, Guy 36, 41

Williams, Harold 269-70

Williams, Talcott 36-7, 41

Wilson, Talcott 204

Wilson, Ed 649

Wimpfheimer, Tony 873

Winchell, Walter 437

Winsor, Kathleen 579-83

Winterling, Janice 92203

Wise, Herbert 6-7, 28-31, 62, 73, 137, 139, 146, 167, 357, 439, 469, 796

Wise, Nathan 1-2, 6, 27

Wolfe, Kurt 913-4

Wolpert, Stanley 984

Wood, Meredith 606

Woollcott, Alexander 281, 404-5, 427, 679, 683

Woolsley, John Munro 265, 267-8
Y

Young, Lewis 26
Z

Zanuck, Darry 355-6, 482-3, 774-5

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