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“as if she were entering a temple”: MYWAR, p. 281.
She hadn’t gone to college: JD, p. 290.
Unconditional female admiration: Author interview with Florence Hirschfeld, Jonathan Hirschfeld, and EK, August 25, 2006.
“what Nathan had never had in his life”: Author interview with BB, December 15, 2005.
“You would see an explosion”: MYWAR, p. 288.
he described her as an “Eddie Willers”: Author correspondence with BB, June 27, 2008.
good premises but no special gifts: TPOARC, RPJ, July 4, 1968, p. 326.
His body “will not obey him”: AS, p. 454.
The thought of being without
her was intolerable: “It’s a Dirty Job, But …”
his attraction to Patrecia would
pass: MYWAR, p. 288.
turned down modeling jobs: MYWAR, p. 290.
“to lie expertly”: JD, p. 328.
Branden “really cared for me”: Author correspondence with BB, June 27, 2008.
took him at his word: “The Liberty Interview: Barbara Branden,” p. 56.
Branden gradually lost discretion: Author interviews with Iris Bell, March 8, 2004, and Peter Crosby, June 13, 2007.
“the truth was evident”: TPOAR, p. 334.
He moved out: MYWAR, p. 309.
penthouse apartment on the twentieth floor: Author interview with BB, June 2, 2008.
346 a marriage he half hoped: Author correspondence with BB, June 27, 2008.
“operated as a shield”: JD, p. 339.
Rand spent many hours: TPOARC, RPJ, July 4, 1968, p. 207.
treated them with a kindness: TPOAR, p. 333.
attended the sessions under protest: Author correspondence with BB, June 27, 2008.
informed their unofficial therapist: TPOARC, RPJ, November 27, 1967, p. 237.
“Now, darling”: MYWAR, p. 309.
“a sense of [emotional] deadness”: JD, pp. 364–65.
her allegiance to Frank was difficult for him: JD, p. 367.
“if the ability to think of people”: TPOARC, RPJ, July 4, 1968, p. 319.
“You will always be a sexual
being”: JD, p. 352.
“You have no equals at any age”: JD, p. 371.
“happiness of a kind I had never known before”: JD, p. 358.
recover her reason: MYWAR, p. 299.
“She’s very American looking”: MYWAR, p. 291.
“What is magnificent”: MYWAR, p. 316.
volunteered as artist’s models: Author interviews with JMB, March 23, 2004, and Don Ventura, March 19, 2004.
assuming that she was supposed to keep her legs crossed: 100 Voices, Don Ventura, apparently referring to the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson broadcast on August 11, 1967, p. 244.
“When you’re with Patrecia”: JD, p. 302.
“I hated the calculations”: MYWAR, p. 315.
“I cannot stand people with ‘acts’”: TPOARC, RPJ, January 30, 1968, p. 283.
She was disturbed by their friendship: TPOARC, RPJ, February 14, 1968, p. 287.
“man-worship”: TPOARC, RPJ, July 4, 1968, p. 326.
“When, if not now?”: MYWAR, p. 299.
“We don’t want people to think”: MYWAR, p. 313. In 1966, Larry Scott left New York for California. Almost three years passed before he learned of his wife’s affair with NB. According to Iris Bell, who became friendly with Scott in Los Angeles, until then he ruminated about his broken marriage. He told Bell that “he would go off on his business trips. Then he would come back [to New York] and not understand what was going on in his marriage.” After one such trip, “he brought back a necklace for Patrecia and made a sexual overture. She was very cold. He talked to NB about that. NB said, ‘Well that’s how women are. You have to give her time to get back into the same mood with you,’” Bell recalled. “Larry was telling me about how much he loved Patrecia and how he had no understanding of why his marriage had fallen apart. It wasn’t until much later that I realized that while NB was talking to Larry this way, he was having an affair with Patrecia. Larry said that NB was never able to help him understand why his marriage fell apart.” At least until 1967, Scott displayed separate framed photographs of his ex-wife and of NB in the bedroom of his Los Angeles apartment. He learned about the affair between NB and Patrecia in the fall of 1968. He died in the 1990s