Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [284]
one-hundred-dollar-a-month stipend: “Contract with George Abbott” dated May 9, 1939 (A. Watkins Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, box 178).
her mind rebelled against reshaping it: BBTBI.
“the folks next door”: TPOAR, p. 150.
might hurt her nascent Hollywood career: Taped interview with MS, conducted by BB, February 18, 1983. Gregory Ratoff would later direct the movie Song of Russia, which was AR’s primary example of the glamorization of Russia by Hollywood in her 1947 testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee.
never saw or spoke to Leontovich again: Taped interview with MS, conducted by BB, February 18, 1983.
“Almost everybody”: Taped interview with MS, conducted by BB, February 18, 1983.
most often drawn to Ayn Rand’s brains: TPOAR, p. 154.
“You’re absolutely right”: Taped interview with MS, conducted by BB, February 18, 1983; TPOAR, p. 154.
appeared less guarded: TPOAR, p. 153.
“it wouldn’t fit with Ayn”: Taped interview with MS, conducted by BB, February 18, 1983.
decision to have an abortion: Agnes Papurt told her daughter MW that she, MW, had been a toddler when this event took place, which would set it in the early 1930s (author interviews with MW, June 21, 2004, and December 21, 2005).
Based on material in her journals: Author correspondence with James S. Valliant, author of The Passion of Ayn Rand’s Critics: The Case against the Brandens, May 24, 2007.
“Where have you been?”: Taped interview with MS, conducted by BB, January 20, 1983.
February 13, 1940: “News of the Stage,” NYT, January 4, 1940, p. 18.
theatrical and film-world celebrities: TPOAR, p. 154.
“one of the season’s mishaps”: Richard Watts, Jr., “Red Terror,” New York Herald Tribune, February 14, 1940, p. 14.
“there would be a play”: “The Play,” NYT, February 14, 1940, p. 28.
days in bed, despondent: Taped interview with MS, conducted by BB, February 18, 1983.
safeguarding the individual: Letter to Tom Girdler, July 12, 1943 (LOAR, p. 81).
left off again in May: February 18, 1940, to April 22, 1940 (JOAR, pp. 205–15).
One night in early June: Thanks to Shoshana Milgram for her analysis of the timing of this incident in “The Road to Roark.”
“Frank talked to me”: “The Road to Roark.” This statement appears, in a slightly different form, in AR’s twenty-fifth-anniversary introduction to TF, pp. viii—ix.
Rand had written a letter: Letter to Aleksandr Kerensky, undated (LOAR, p. 42).
government-backed manufacturing cartels: Redeeming the Time, pp. 454–55.
from Stalinism to syphilis: Redeeming the Time, p. 612.
there might never be another federal election: Stephen Cox, The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America (Piscataway, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2004), p. 219.
“against the worst madman”: “The Hero in the Soul Manifested in the World.”
preferred to let Hitler march: Reported by LP in a 1982 philosophy course, according to a student’s detailed notes.
“the old reliance”: 1933 radio speech by Franklin Delano Roosevelt (cited in Redeeming the Time, p. 449).
“only the strong can be free”: Quoted in Ellsworth Bernard, Wendell Willkie: Fighter for Freedom (Marquette, Mich.: Northern Michigan University Press, 1966), p. 207.
“to strike a balance”: Foundation Day address by Wendell Willkie, May 4, 1938, at Indiana University; quoted in Wendell Wilkie, p. 145.
working out an agreement: Unpublished letter from Blanche Knopf to Ann Watkins, October 25, 1940 (A. Watkins Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, box 80).
National Willkie Clubs headquarters: Letter to Gerald Loeb, August 5, 1944 (LOAR, p. 154).
“pure selfishness”: TPOAR, p. 160.
spoke out against the New Deal: AR:SOL, DVD.
“I was a marvelous propagandist”: “Ayn Rand as a Public Speaker.”
she mesmerized her audiences: “Of all the guest speakers who came to talk there and share the podium with me,” Swanson wrote, “the most notable by far was AR, who had a fascinating mind and held audiences hypnotized” (Gloria Swanson, Swanson on Swanson [New York: Random House, 1980],