Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [313]
following their joint appearance: The broadcast aired on October 11, 1961; no videotape seems to have survived.
threw back her head and laughed: Author interview with Al Ramrus, February 7, 2007.
They formed a mutual admiration society: Spillane also met Rand’s followers. “I was never at her place when they weren’t there,” he told an interviewer. “Every time one of us would talk, all [their] heads would follow that person” (100 Voices, Mickey Spillane, pp. 235–38).
“Ayn Rand and I, we don’t have to shrug”: 100 Voices, Mickey Spillane, pp. 235–38.
“vicious injustice on the part of the ‘intellectuals’ “: “The Ayn Rand Column,” Los Angeles Times, September 2, 1962.
“moral cannibals”: AS, p. 928.
Rand paid for her hotel: Letter to Vera Glarner, née Guzarchik, March 2, 1962 (LOAR, p. 595).
deeply impressed by their American cousin’s fame: 100 Voices, Lisette Hassanil, pp. 257–59.
Rand wrote that she missed her: Letter to Vera Glarner, August 4, 1962 (LOAR, p. 599).
hosted a radio program: “Interview with Joan Kennedy Taylor,” p. 3. The station was WEVD, New York.
didn’t comment on Nabokov’s lurid subject: In a March 1964 Playboy interview, AR told Alvin Toffler that she regarded Nabokov as a brilliant stylist but that his subjects and “sense of life” were evil; “The Playboy Interview: Ayn Rand,” p. 40.
“Oh, Nabokov!”: Author interview with JKT, May 21, 2004.
never contacted his sister Olga: Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991), p. 388. Interestingly, Boyd describes a speech Nabokov gave at Cornell in 1958 in which he reenacted a love scene from Fyodor Gladkov’s 1930s Russian industrial novel Energiya, about the building of a Russian dam, in which the hero confesses love to the heroine while operating a pneumatic drill. “Social Realism’s ideal love scene—boy and girl with pneumatic drill,” Boyd quotes Nabokov as saying gleefully (p. 360).
“She was very, um, cautious”: Author interview with JKT, May 21, 2004.
Mannheimer turned up in New York: Author interview with BB, June 9, 2006. NB didn’t remember seeing Mannheimer as a client but thought that sending the screenwriter to him “sounded like something Ayn would do;” author interview with NB, April 3, 2008.
appearing anxious, stiff, and visibly frightened: Author interview with BB, June 9, 2006.
having seen almost nothing of Rand: Author interview with BB, June 9, 2006.
fatally shot himself: Obituaries, Variety, March 15, 1972.
“Too bad”: Author interview with Joan Blumenthal, October 10, 2007.
saw little of Frances and Henry: Karen Reedstrom, “Interview with Erika Holzer,” Full Context, February 1996, p. 3.
struck her as a betrayal: Author interview with BB, October 12, 2007.
never had a good word to say: Author interview with BB, December 16, 2005.
the sensation she created: Author interview with Bettina Bien Greaves, December 22, 2006.
Mises’s eightieth-birthday party: William Henry Chamberlain, “Ludwig von Mises at 80,” Wall Street Journal, October 20, 1961, p. 10; My Years with Ludwig von Mises, p. 163. The party was held at the University Club of New York.
“LSD steps up our voltage”: Quoted in Radicals for Capitalism, p. 280.
editing a quasi-religious libertarian magazine: Radicals for Capitalism, p. 276.
“Whenever I wrote anything”: Interview with Thaddeus Ashby, conducted by Wendy de Weese, June 20, 2005.
she attended the awards ceremony and enjoyed herself: Author interview with JKT, May 21, 2004.
three million copies in print: EOWTL, p. 143. Oddly, in spite of the fact that the cold war was at its height and that two years earlier Khrushchev had disclosed the mass killings committed by Stalin at about the time WTL had first been published, the reissued novel attracted little attention. The hardback edition seems to have been