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128 “I find all this early work intensely embarrassing”: JC to McLoone, March 11 [1968], Georgetown University Library.
128 “were not rueful vignettes”: JC, in Atlantic Brief Lives, ed. Louis Kronenberger (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971), 275.
CHAPTER TEN {1943–1945}
129 the author's “childlike sense of wonder”: GT, 58.
129 “Between long-distance calls to Frank Capra”: ibid., 2.
130 “Kennedy? Kenelly? Kovacs?”: JJC, 164.
130 “You and I are survivors, of course”: JC to David Rothbart, May 9, 1978.
130 “We spend all of our Sundays rooting around”: JC to Herbst, May 17 [1943], Yale.
131 “Make it clear, make it logical”: Col. Emanuel Cohen, “Film Is a Weapon,” Business Screen 7, no.1 (1946).
131 How to Carve a Side of Beef: author int. Arthur Laurents, April 4, 2005.
131 “lean purity” of his language: Ted Mills to SD, March 19, 1985, Swem.
131 “There wasn't enough work”: Leonard Spigelgass to SD, Sept. 11, 1984, Swem.
131 “flatten their backs against the wall”: Arthur Laurents, Original Story By (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000), 23.
131 “Good John” … “Bad John”: Caskie Stinnett to SD, Dec. 12, 1985, Swem.
132 “wild and hilarious”: SD int. Don Ettlinger, July 6, 1984, Swem.
132 “Lennie, your mascara's running”: GT, 4.
132 “never been so well regulated, moderate”: ibid., 2.
133 remembered how “terribly intolerant”: SD int. Ted Mills, Oct. 17, 1985, Swem.
134 refused to let anyone “touch or chastise”: SD int. Peggy Murray, June 11, 1984, Swem.
134 “Codfish was not a thing I cooked”: author int. Ruth Denney, July 29, 2004.
134 “funny, funny pieces for The New Yorker“: JC to Herbst, Nov. 1, 1945, Yale.
134 “She ate as though”: JC, “Town House II,” New Yorker, Aug. 11, 1945, 20-25.
135 “It was the naive”: JC, “Town House IV,” New Yorker, Jan. 5, 1946, 23-28.
135 “He used to be president of paramount”: LJC, 106-7.
135 “hanging out of their windows”: JC to MC [c. April 1945], Morgan.
135 “absolutely nothing over waist-high”: CJC, 50.
135 “crack[ed] coconuts” with a sailor: JC to Coates, April 6, 1974.
136 shouting “La guerre est finie!”: SD int. Katrina Ettlinger, June 4, 1984, Swem.
CHAPTER ELEVEN {1945-1946}
137 “saga” of “disorder, hysteria, and vermin”: LJC, 112.
137 “Here we are … living like the wicked rich”: MC to Herbst [c. Aug. 1945], Yale.
137 “the interminable funeral procession”: LJC, 121.
138 “She enjoys herself tremendously”: ibid., 123.
138 his “favorite New York”: JC, “Moving Out,” Esquire, July 1960, 67.
138 he thought his parents were “terribly disappointed”: SD int. Elizabeth Collins, July 2, 1984, Swem.
139 “on this oblate spheroid”: FLC Sr. to JC, Jan. 16, 1944, CFP.
139 “John that's all that makes life worth living”: FLC Sr. to JC and family, Oct. 10, 1943, CFP.
139 “its layout sure sparkles”: FLC Sr. to JC and family, Nov. 7, 1943, CFP.
140 “ ‘Too old’ as it looks”: FLC Sr. to JC, Nov. 21, 1943, CFP.
140 “Got a phone call Th'sgiving”: FLC Sr. to JC and family, Nov. 29, 1943, CFP.
140 “They told me to take off my clothes”: JC, fragment of The Holly Tree, Berg.
140 “My letters from now on”: FLC Sr. to JC and family, Nov. 14, 1943, CFP.
141 “excoriating her”: JJC, 22.
141 “It was a very long association”: JC memoir fragment, Berg; also see WC, 303.
141 In 1977 he told John Hersey: see CJC, 156.
142 “His name is pronounced weasel”: JC to WM [c. June 1947], NYPL-MSS.
142 “When I scythe I think of Tolstoy”: JC to Litvinov, April 4 [1977].
142 “kind of like a diploma”: JC to Herbst [summer 1947?], Yale.
143 “I got too much to do”: SJC, 31.
143 “There are a lot of Mary's family here”: GT, 38.
143 “Mary's unstable sister”: LJC, 117.
144 “I used to put a gin bottle in the window”: JC to Ettlingers [c. 1960?], CFP.
144 “Now and then he flashes”: GT, 62-63.
145 “[T]he cost of this comfortable life”: LJC, 124.
145 “Last night, folding the bath towel”: JJC, 16.
CHAPTER TWELVE {1946-1949}
146 “I got out of the army in November”: LJC, 113.
146 “This letter is to thank you”: Robert Linscott to JC, July 1, 1946, Columbia.
147 “I