Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [318]
“delegated to Ayn Rand duty”: Author interview with former New American Library editor Gerry Howard, March 2, 2004.
“She asked me at lunch”: Author interview with former New American Library editor John Thornton, who was assigned to AR from 1975–79; March 4, 2004.
“That’s not funny”: 100 Voices, Patrick McConnell, p. 451.
“no conflicts of interest among rational men”: TVOS, p. 57.
The Virtue of Selfishness did not include: NBI published “The Fascist New Frontier” as a pamphlet in 1963.
“I hope you will agree”: Manuscript letter from BC to AR, November 26, 1963 (Bennett Cerf Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, box 57).
“She said the assassination”: BC, Columbia University Oral History Project interview, p. 952.
“I think you are one of the most wonderful people”: Unpublished letter from BC to AR, March 29, 1965 (Bennett Cerf Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, box 57).
She also wished him well: Letter to BC, April 3, 1965 (LOAR, pp. 634–35).
337 Cerf blamed her followers: Cerf, Columbia University Oral History Project interview, p. 952.
“She was a revolutionary”: JH, from taped, unpublished interviews by journalist JW in preparation for a CBC special report on the tenth anniversary of AR’s death, titled Ideas: The Legacy of Ayn Rand (1992).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 could be immensely empathetic”: Author interview with BB, October 12, 2007.
“This is exactly how I feel about myself”: 100 Voices, Ilona Royce Smithkin, p. 214.
At least twice a year: “Objectivist Calendar,” TON.
also tape-recorded answers: Author interview with Shelly Reuben, November 19, 2007.
without accepting any remuneration: MYWAR, p. 206.
NBI “was certainly profitable”: “The Liberty Interview: Barbara Branden, p. 54.
She let it be known that he, and only he: “Conversations with Ayn Rand,” p. 35.
traded their set of rooms: The Brandens had earlier moved from their single room into a one-bedroom apartment at 165 East Thirty-fifth Street before moving into 120 East Thirty-fourth.
Elayne Kalberman managed the newsletter staff: Author interview with EK, July 21, 2006.
transferred his paints: Author interview with Don Ventura, March 19, 2004.
An intercom joined the O’Connors’ apartment with the Brandens’: BB, in a taped interview with MS, February 18, 1983.
she tended to have fixed ideas about drawing: “Art and Cognition,” The Romantic Manifesto, p. 49.
She might point out that his colors: Facets of Ayn Rand, pp. 120–21.
she phoned her favorite painter: Author interview with JMB and Dr. Allan Blumenthal, March 23, 2004.
she asked knowledgable friends: Facets of Ayn Rand, p. 121.
“He is a tiger at the easel”: Facets of Ayn Rand, p. 121.
“It was the only time”: Author interview with Don Ventura, March 19, 2004.
“That’s what she was concerned about”: Author interview with JMB and Dr. Allan Blumenthal, September 2, 2004.
she forbade him to sell his paintings: Author interview with Don Ventura, March 19, 2004; author correspondence with BB, September 17, 2008.
she was discovered: Author interview with Roberta Satro, July 20, 2006. Satro was the on-s ite rental agent for 120 East Thirty-fourth Street and several other Murray Hill apartment buildings in the 1970s; in 1979 or 1980, she came upon Rand putting the painting in a trash can and asked if she could take it home. Rand agreed.
“I’m coming back to life”: JD, p. 314.
was the most important person in the world to him: TPOAR, p. 335.
offered to counsel the unhappy couple: JD, p. 314.
a therapeutic technique that she categorically rejected: “The Benefits and Hazards.”
resented what he later characterized as: “The Benefits and Hazards.”
“kill one’s capacity to be certain of anything”: Nathaniel Branden, “Mental Health versus Mysticism and Self-Sacrifice,” TON, March 1963, p. 9.
341 “Ayn sometimes seemed like a pussycat in comparison”: “The Liberty Interview: Barbara Branden,” p. 52, amended by BB in a note to the author, September 17, 2008.
displaying a seductive mixture: Roy Childs, from taped, unpublished