Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [290]
caricatured her as an anti-Communist puppet: Lillian Hellman, Scoundrel Time (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1976), pp. 3–5.
scheduled to begin in July: Unpublished letter from agent Bert Allenberg to Hal Wallis, dated April 8, 1944, and “Multiple Picture Contract with Ayn Rand,” dated July 5, 1944, both from the Hal Wallis Collection, Margaret Herrick Library, box 95.
“pictures [I write] would be done my way”: Letter to IP, July 26, 1945 (LOAR, p. 178).
“the mind on strike”: TPOAR, p. 218.
bought a 1936 Packard car: Unpublished letter to Richard Meland, February 20, 1944, courtesy of JB.
wavering between 5 and 7 percent: “Historical CPI [Consumer Price Index],” 1943–44, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
arranged to buy an astoundingly Roarkian house: TPOAR, pp. 186–87.
fantastic sum of $24,000: TPOAR, p. 186.
asked Frank’s brother: BBTBI.
“chronically and permanently happy”: Letter to Nick Carter, October 5, 1944 (LOAR, p. 164).
she confided to a few friends: Interviews with RBH and with June Kurisu, May 19 and December 31, 2004.
spell of active tuberculosis: Letter to Nick Carter, October 5, 1944 (LOAR, p. 164).
was buried on Long Island: Gravesite locator, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Tuberculosis had weakened his heart: Taped interview with Millicent Patton, conducted by BB, December 5, 1982.
sent him a long, affectionate letter: Letter to Nick Carter, October 5, 1944 (LOAR, pp. 164–68).
By Christmas 1944: Harry Hanson, “The Fountainhead Enjoys a Fresh Wave of Popularity,” December 24, 1944, p. 19.
Every two or three weeks: In the 1940s, The New York Times published regional lists, showing which novels and nonfiction books were best-sellers in Detroit, Cleveland, New Orleans, Los Angeles, New York, etc.
This occurred twenty-s ix times: “A Strange Kind of Simplicity,” p. 8.
Fan mail was pouring in to Bobbs-Merrill: The Bobbs-Merrill Collection, courtesy of the Lilly Library.
a way of bolstering morale: NB, “The Benefits and Hazards of the Philosophy of Ayn Rand,” lecture given at the University of California, San Diego, May 25, 1982.
“great and exceptional” stand: Kevin Bazzana, Lost Genius: the Curious and Tragic Story of an Extraordinary Musical Prodigy (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2007), pp. 200–201.
“compliment” of being addressed as “Mr. Rand”: Letter to Sylvia Bailey, July 5, 1943 (LOAR, p. 79).
the number of logical contradictions: BBTBI.
invited her to speak: BBTBI. In 1943 she spoke before the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects (“Books—Authors,” NYT, June 23, 1943, p. 19); in 1945 she spoke before the Southern California chapter of the same group (“Ayn Rand as a Public Speaker”).
told the group of architects: From her speech to the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects, June 1943; “Ayn Rand as a Public Speaker.”
Joan Crawford gave a dinner party: BBTBI.
preferred Garbo: Letter to Gerald Loeb, April 23, 1944 (LOAR, p. 132).
MGM reportedly responded: Erskine Johnson, “This is Hollywood,” syndicated in the Zanesville [Ohio] Times Recorder, March 21, 1957, p. 4.
“the big man in Hollywood”: Letter to Archibald Ogden, July 19, 1944 (LOAR, p. 148).
Hedda Hopper and The New York Times:Hedda Hopper, “Looking at Hollywood,” Los Angeles Times, July 21, 1944, p. A7; “Screen News,” NYT, June 26, 1944, p. 21.
tried to pry her away from Wallis: Unpublished letter from IP, November 1944 (Isabel Paterson Papers, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, box 4); “Paramount Studio Tour.”
suffered over his 1938 letter to her: TPOAR, pp. 189–90.
“Your thesis is the great one”: Letter from FLW, April 23, 1944 (LOAR, p. 112); thanks to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation for authentication.
should have had a mane of white hair: TPOAR, p. 190.
Loeb demurred: Letter to Gerald