Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [302]
Dr. Stadler’s terrifying weapon: “Death Ray for Planes,” NYT, September 22, 1940, p. D7.
“He uncuffed it for dinner”: Author interview with Connie Papurt, September 21, 2004.
On October 24, they took occupancy: Letter to Pincus Berner, October 12, 1951 (LOAR, p. 494).
who were to live at the ranch while they were away: The Hills moved into the Chatsworth house in summer 1952 (100 Voices, RBH, p. 127).
gave their convertible car to Branden: Author interview with NB, April 3, 2008.
aware of having reservations: Author interview with BB, November 2, 2006.
enrolled at NYU: TPOAR, p. 249.
“I wanted it desperately”: Author interview with BB, November 2, 2006.
“The Fountain Pen, by Frank O’Connor”: Author interview with RBH, May 26, 2005.
insisted on paying rent: Undated note from RBH to BB, courtesy of MSC.
In 1962: 100 Voices, RBH, p. 129.
for a price of $175,000: TPOAR, p. 186.
“That property was his business and his world”: Author interview with RBH, June 8, 2005.
“She said it too insistently”: TPOAR, p. 251.
“Francisco, the Lobbyist”: Mary Ann and Charles Sures, Facets of Ayn Rand (Irvine, Calif.: ARI Press, 2001), p. 117.
began to paint—figures, city-scapes: Facets of Ayn Rand, p. 118.
heaped from countertops: Author correspondence with RBH, August 2005.
apart from whatever they may have taken: Ruth Beebe Hill, “Shared Moments with a Famous Author,” The Journal of the San Juan Islands, July 23, 1986, p. 1.
cats sharpened their claws: Facets of Ayn Rand, pp. 40–41.
bill collectors sometimes showed up: Author interview with Roberta Satro, July 20, 2006.
job to pay the bills: TPOAR, p. 252.
natural and charming: Author interview with Iris Bell, March 8, 2004; Facets of Ayn Rand, p. 46.
foyer doubled as the dining room: Mary Ann Sures, “Portrait of an Artist,” Impact, September 1997, p. 1.
see the Empire State Building: Facets of Ayn Rand, pp. 32–33; TPOAR, p. 251.
launched into a spirited discussion of John Galt: JD, pp. 109–10.
“One does not approach a god too closely”: JD, p. 109.
Rand had written back: Author interview with BB, December 16, 2005.
“a pain that … was excruciating”: JD, pp. 110–13.
Barbara remembered Rand’s manner: Note from BB to author, November 7, 2006.
become her “moral mentor”: “The Liberty Interview: Barbara Branden,” Liberty, January 1990, p. 55.
refrain from seeking his mentor’s advice again: Author interview with BB, November 2, 2006.
should have ended their relationship that night: JD, p. 111.
“He was going to help me”: “The Liberty Interview: Barbara Branden,” p. 55. Interview quote was altered slightly for grammatical correctness, at the request of the subject.
“expand our circle”: MYWAR, p. 108.
German and Polish Jew: Justin Martin, Greenspan: The Man Behind the Money (Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus, 2000), p. 3.
“Alan had his own relationship with her”: From taped, unpublished interviews by journalist JW in preparation for a CBC special report on the tenth anniversary of AR’s death, titled Ideas: The Legacy of Ayn Rand (1992).
they dressed with care: Author correspondence with Al Ramrus, March 1, 2007.
“Is Roark idealistic”: MYWAR, p. 60.
“total awe, as though I were on a different planet”: Ideas and Action, videotaped interview with LP by James Valliant, WJM Productions, August 5, 1995.
her deepening interest in Nathaniel Branden: In an author interview with two of NB’s sisters and Jonathan Hirschfeld, a nephew, in Toronto in August 2006, Hirschfeld, who knew the group members well, said, “I think that, for her, the main draw was NB. I suspect that the rest of it happened and she participated and she cared, but she didn’t need [a following].”
“I’ve always seen [the Collective]: BBTBI.
at a pivotal point: Rand was writing part III, chapter 2, “The Utopia of Greed” (Ayn Rand Papers, LOC, box 9, folder 4; begun November 6, 1951).
the strain could cost her two or three days’ work: TPOAR, p. 255.
“When I’m writing”: JD, p. 120.