Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [317]
“shivering, scared children”: John Hospers, “Remembrance of Things Past,” Liberty, August 2006, pp. 19–22.
“‘Undigested agreement’ does not interest or concern me”: Letter to JH, January 3, 1961 (LOAR, p. 531).
If she didn’t find it: Author correspondence with BB, June 27, 2008.
she saw the realm of ideas: John Hospers, “Conversations with Ayn Rand II,” Liberty, September 1990, page 51.
“Any hint of thinking as one formerly had”: “Conversations with Ayn Rand II,” p. 52.
“to the stratosphere in anger”: “Conversations with Ayn Rand II,” p. 42.
She had frequently complained to him: JH from taped, unpublished interviews by journalist JW in preparation for a CBC special report on the tenth anniversary of AR’s death, titled Ideas: The Legacy of Ayn Rand (1992).
She gave a formal, twenty-minute paper: Or “Art and Sense of Life,” a version of which appears under that title in The Romantic Manifesto.
According to Barbara: Author correspondence with BB, June 27, 2008.
brought him close to tears: “Memories of Ayn Rand,” pp. 5, 7.
spoke to twenty-five hundred fans: “Ayn Rand Rips Trust Laws,” Chicago Tribune, September 30, 1963, p. 22.
traveled hundreds of miles to hear her: Author interview with Ed Nash, former Chicago NBI representative, January 6, 2005.
On Rand’s mother’s side: Letter to Esther Stone, August 17, 1963 (LOAR, p. 611).
Luckily, it was a hoax: 100 Voices, Iris Bell, p. 228.
Rand’s black dress: Author interview with Susan Belter, December 18, 2006.
“It was polite but formal”: Unpublished, taped interview with MS, conducted by BB, February 20, 1983.
“She was like a queen on a throne”: 100 Voices, FB, p. 27.
specifically the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act: “Ayn Rand Rips Trust Laws,” p. 22.
didn’t come to the funeral: AR’s second cousin Roger Salamon (Sarah Lipton’s grandson) recalls that AR attended Burt Stone’s funeral, but FB and Burt Stone’s granddaughter Susan Belter remember her absence. All agree that relations with AR cooled over time and the family lost touch with her in the middle 1960s.
“He was very rude”: Interview with MS, conducted by BB, February 20, 1983.
left Chicago by plane for Portland, Oregon: The Brandens, who accompanied AR, couldn’t remember whether they also flew from New York to Chicago on the first leg of the trip. Either way, once in the plane she lost her fear of flying. “The unknown frightened her,” Barbara observed, “a fact of reality did not” (TPOAR, p. 318). She flew again in the 1970s.
Rand was joining him for a question-and-answer session: “Objectivist Calendar,” TON, September 1963, p. 36.
so crammed that a janitor called the fire department: 100 Voices, Jan Schulman, p. 248.
heard Frank’s voice through an open window: Author interview with RBH, May 19, 2005.
for years had been displeased: MYWAR, p. 203.
“a chicken and unloyal”: 100 Voices, Perry Knowlton, p. 307.
suggested publishing a second collection: TPOAR, pp. 321–22.
“The Fascist New Frontier”: This essay was based on a speech by the same name given at the Ford Hall Forum on December 16, 1962.
would have to remove the essay and change the title: Second draft of an unpublished letter from BC to AR, October 18, 1963 (Bennett Cerf Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, box 57).
“He made the decision not to publish”: TPOAR, p. 322.
One day in mid-October: They met on October 16, 1963; second draft of an unpublished letter from BC to AR, October 18, 1963.
her whole point: Manuscript letter to BC, October 30, 1963 (Bennett Cerf Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, box 57).
“Get yourself another publisher”: BC’s oral history interview on file at the Columbia University Oral History Project archives, number 719, p. 951; letter to BC, October 30, 1963 (LOAR, pp. 617–21).
had contracted to pay: 100 Voices, Perry Knowlton, p. 307.
new “unrequited love story”: JOAR, p. 709.
paid many of the bills at NAL: 100 Voices, Patrick McConnell (one of AR’s editors at New American Library), p. 451.
had to nag and coax the editors: