Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [295]
ninety-eight-page booklet: James Howard, “Nightshirt Fringe Applauds Ayn Rand’s Ten-Year-Old Book,” PM, October 22, 1947.
appeared in July 1946: “Author’s Foreword” to Pamphleteer’s edition of Anthem, written in April 1946 (copy of the first printing of Anthem, Bennett A. Cerf Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New York, box 436; letter to Walt Disney, September 5, 1946 [LOAR, p. 317]).
sold for a dollar a copy: Unpublished letter from Leonard Read to Ann Watkins, April 10, 1946/7 [two dates on letter, one a typo] (A. Watkins Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, box 152).
U.S. purveyor of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion:”Nightshirt Fringe.” The reporter, and PM, unfairly used the connection to discredit AR and Anthem.
“What can be loved”: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, pp. 14–15.
“Ayn Rand is a phenomenon”: Quoted in EOA, p. 58.
the parent of The Fountainhead: Letter to Henry Blanke, September 5, 1946 (LOAR, p. 315).
Stanwyck wasn’t interested: Letter to Barbara Stanwyck, September 7, 1946 (LOAR, pp. 317–18).
Wallis turned it down: “Paramount Studio Tour.”
With the rumored silent backing: Robert Mayhew, Ayn Rand and “Song of Russia” (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2005), p. 78.
“the rising tide” of Communism: Motion Picture Alliance “Statement of Principles,” AMPTP Collection, Margaret Herrick Library, box 11, MPA folder. The MPA was organized in February 1944; Rand joined in the summer of 1944, as soon as it was clear that she was going to remain in Hollywood.
Members met weekly at MGM: An Oral History with Robert M. W. Vogel, interviewed by Barbara Hall, Beverly Hills, Calif.: Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Oral History Program, 1991.
Rand sat on the MPA executive board: Motion Picture Alliance records, Hedda Hopper Collection, Margaret Herrick Library.
The Vigil: “Textbook of Americanism,” 1946; Motion Picture Alliance Records.
“Fascist anti-Semites!”: After the end of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, American opponents of the Soviet Union were accused of being pro-Hitler, i.e., pro-Fascist and anti-Semitic (“Emergency Committee of Hollywood Guilds and Unions Announcement,” Hollywood Reporter, June 23, 1944; “To the Membership of the Motion Picture Alliance,” Hollywood Reporter, June 27, 1944; James Kevin McGuinness, “Double Cross in Hollywood,” The New Leader, July 15, 1944, p. 119; Morrie Ryskind, “A Reply to Elmer Rice about the MPAPAI,” The New Leader, December 23, 1944.)
suspected her own treasured literary agent: Unpublished letters to Benjamin Stolberg, September 26, 1946, and October 9, 1946 (Benjamin Stolberg Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library).
remained her New York agents: Alan Collins died in 1968. Perry Knowlton, who later replaced Collins as president of Curtis Brown, Ltd., in the United States, acted as her primary agent from 1957 until 1982 (100 Voices, Perry Knowlton, p. 307).
“we were all seeing ghosts”: An Oral History with Robert M. W. Vogel, interviewed by Barbara Hall, Beverly Hills, Calif.: Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Oral History Program, 1991.
monopoly over the nation’s literary output: “Writers Form Group to Combat Control by Unit Assailed as Red,” NYT, September 13, 1946, p. 1.
formed the American Writers Association: “Cain Plan Scored by Writers’ Group,” NYT, May 8, 1947, p. 14; “22 Authors on Board,” NYT, October 16, 1947, p. 34.
joined the board: Letter to Benjamin Stolberg, September 27, 1947 (LOAR, p. 380).
“chop his head off”: “Paramount Studio Tour.”
201 met as often as three times a week: Song of Russia, p. 79, based on AR’s desk calendars.
composed the “Screen Guide for Americans”: “Screen Guide for Americans” was published in the November 1947 issue of Plain Talk.
wrote the first sentence: Ayn Rand Papers, LOC, first draft of AS, reel 2, chapter 1.
worked on a movie called House of Mist: Dates courtesy of project-specific file cards (Hal Wallis Collection, Margaret Herrick Library, box 95).
“I don’t believe in unhappiness