by J.F. Powers
Goldwater, Barry
golf
Gollancz, Victor
Gopher Wrecking
Gordon, Caroline
Gouch, Rev. Walter T.
Grand National, Aintree Racecourse
Great Depression
Greek Song
“The Green Banana,”
Greene, Graham
“The Green Revolution” (unwritten novel)
Gregorian chants
Greystones, Ireland
Griffith, Calvin
Griffith, Clark
Grinnell College
Guest, Edgar
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guthrie, Sir Tyrone
haircuts
Haldeman-Julius
Hall, Halsey
Hall, Myron
Hanseatic, SS
Hanseatic League
Harcourt, Brace
Hardwick, Elizabeth; “The Classless Society,”; JFP’s letters to
Harper’s Bazaar
Hart, Agnes
Hart, Luke
Harvard Business School
Harvey (film)
Haskins, John
Haugstad, Phil
Hearn, Lafcadio
“He Don’t Plant Cotton”
Hemingway, Ernest
Henderson, Bob
Hennacy, Ammon
Hepenstall, W. D.; Dark Rosaleen
Here Is Ireland
Hitler, Adolf
Hollywood
homosexuality
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hopper, Hedda
Hopwood Awards
horse racing
“The Hotel,” (unwritten novel)
Hovda, Fr. Robert
Howe, John
Hughes, Fr. Philip
Hughes, Riley
Hugo, Fr. John
Humphrey, Donald (Don) and ; illness and death of; JFP’s letters to
Humphrey, Hubert
Humphrey, Mary Alice Frawley; JFP’s letters to
Hungary
Huntington Hartford Foundation
Huxley, Aldous
Huysmans, Joris-Karl
Hynes, Arleen McCarty
Hynes, Emerson
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Institute for Sex Research
International Boxing Club
Iowa
IRA
Ireland; Catholicism and ; Powers family in; press
Irish Hospitals’ Sweepstakes
Irish Times, The
Irving, Washington
Israel
Jacksonville, Illinois
Jacobs Prairie, Minnesota
James, Henry; “Lesson of the Master”
Jansenism
Japan
Jarrell, Randall
jazz
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jensen, Rosemary
Johnson, Lonnie
Johnson, Dr. Samuel
John XXIII, Pope
Jolson, Al
Joyce, James; Ulysses
Judge, Fr. Paul
Juvenal
Kacmarcik, Frank
Kansas
Kansas City, Missouri
Keefe, Richard (Dick)
Kelly, Fr. Patrick
Kennedy, John F.; assassination of
Kennedy, X. J. and ; “Epitaph for a Postal Clerk” (poem)
Kentucky Derby
Kenyon College
Kenyon Review, The
Kenyon Review Fellows in Fiction
“Keystone,”
Kinsey, Dr. Alfred
Knox, Msgr. Ronald
Knox, Ronald; Enthusiasm
Kogan, Herman
Kraft, Charlotte Powers; JFP’s letters to
Kraft, William (Bill) and ; JFP’s letters to
Kralick, Jack
Lacouture, Onesimus
Ladies’ Home Journal
Landor, Walter Savage
Lasker, Joe
Latin
Lavagetto, Cookie
Lawrence, Fr. Emeric
Leave Her to Heaven (film)
LeBerthon, Ted
Left Book Club
Legion of Decency pledge
Lennon Sisters
Leopard, The (film)
Leopardstown Racecourse, Ireland
Levin, Harry
Lewis, Sinclair
lice
Life magazine
“Lions, Harts, Leaping Does,”
Listen to the Classics (radio show)
Little, Brown
liturgical movement
Liverpool
Locke, Bobby
Lockhart, Freda Bruce
London
London Illustrated
Times (London), The
Long, Earl
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
“Look How the Fish Live,”
Lord, Miles
“The Lord’s Day,”
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times
“A Losing Game,”
Lost Weekend, The (film)
Lourdes
Lowell, Robert; JFP’s letters to
Lund, Reidar
Lutherans
Mailer, Norman
Malamud, Bernard
Manchester Guardian, The
Man in the White Suit, The (film)
Mantle, Mickey
Maranda, Georges
Maris, Roger
Maritain, Jacques
Marquette University
Marshall, John; JFP’s letters to
Marshall Field’s
Martin, Dean
Martin, Mary
Martinez, Jimmy
Martin Luther (film)
Maugham, Somerset
MCA
McCarthy, Abigail Quigley
McCarthy, Eugene
McCarthy, Sen. Joseph
McClurg, A. C.
McCormick, Ken
McDonald, Donald
McGlothin, Pat
McGraw-Hill
McQuaid, Abp. John Charles
Merton, Thomas (aka Fr. Louis OSCO) and ; Journals
Methodists
Mexico
Michener, James
Michigan Daily, The
Michigan State Spartans
Middle East
Millgate, Michael; JFP’s letters to; William Faulkner
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee Journal
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis Tribune, The
Minnesota
Minnesota Twins
Minnesota Vikings
Miss America Pageant
Mississippi River
Missouri
Mitchell, Ruth
Mitford, Nancy
Mohan, Robert Paul
Moisevitch, Tanya
Monroe, Marilyn
Montini, Card. Giovanni (later Pope Paul VI)
Montogomery, Viscount, The Memoirs of Field Marshal Montogomery
Moon, Bucklin
Morte D’Urban and; as National Book Award winner; publication of and ; sales of
Morton, J. B., Belloc
Muggeridge, Malcolm
Mundelein
Murdoch, Iris, The Flight from the Enchanter
Murphy, Fr. Edward F., SJ; Père Antoine and ; The Scarlet Lily
Murray, Fr. John Courtney
Murray, Abp. John Gregory
Murrow, Ed
music
Mussolini, Benito
My Turn to Make the Tea (Monica Dickens)
“Nationally Advertised Brands” (NAB) (unwritten novel)
Nabokov, Vladimir, Pale Fire
Nasser, Gamal Abdel
Nation, The
National Book Award
National Football League
Nazareth Hall
Nazism
NBC
Nemerov, Howard
Newman Club, Minneapolis and ,
New Mexico
New Mexico Quarte
rly Review
New Republic, The
Newsweek
New York; Port of
New Yorker, The
New York Herald Tribune
New York Times, The
New York Times Book Review, The
New York Yankees
Nicolson, Harold, Some People
Nieuw Amsterdam (ship)
Nixon, Richard
“Nobody Home” (unwritten novel)
Nolan, Fr.
Noone, Jimmie
Norris, Hoke
Northwestern University
Oakmont, Pennsylvania
O’Brien, Kate
Observer, The
O’Casey, Sean
O’Connell, Dick
O’Connell, Joann Wiley; caricature of Jim by; JFP’s letters to
O’Connell, Joseph; JFP’s letters to
O’Connor, Edwin; The Last Hurrah
O’Connor, Flannery; “Greenleaf”
O’Connor, Frank
Ó Faoláin, Eileen
Ó Faoláin, Seán
O’Hara, Maureen
O. Henry Award
Ohio
O’Neill, Marty
Ong, Walter
Oregon
Orwell, George; The Road to Wigan Pier
Osaka, Japan
Ottaviani, Card. Alfredo
Our Father’s House (anthology)
Oxford, England
pacificism
Palmer, Joe H.
Palmquist, Mary Pluth; JFP’s letters to
Palmquist, Richard (Dick); JFP’s letters to
Parcheesi
Paris, France
Partisan Review
Pater, Walter
Penitentes
Perón, Eva
Perry, Jim
Perspectives (magazine)
Petrarch
Petrek, Fr.
Petters, Catherine
Petters, Fredric; JFP’s letters to
Petters, Rosemary Boyle (Romy); JFP’s letters to
Peyton, Father Patrick
Pickwick Papers, The (film)
Pirates of Penzance, The
Pontifical Academy of Theology
pop culture
Pope, Alexander
Porter, Katherine Anne; “The Fig Tree,”; “Holiday”; JFP’s letters to; Ship of Fools
Portland, Oregon
Pound, Ezra
Powell, Dawn, The Golden Spur
Power, Jimmy
Powers, Elizabeth Alice Wahl (Betty); Avon house of; courted by Jim; death of; early married life; engagement to Jim; Fr. George Garrelts and; in Ireland; JFP’s letters to; marriage to Jim and; “Martinmas”; in Milwaukee; miscarriage of; motherhood and family life; pregnancies of; Rafferty & Co.; return to St. Cloud; St. Cloud house of; “Tide Rips in the Teacups,”; time management and; at Wahls’ summer cottage and ; wedding of; writing career of and ; at Yaddo
Powers, Hugh Wahl; birth of; childhood of
Powers, James
Powers, James Ansberry; background of
Powers, James Ansbury (Boz); birth of; childhood of; JFP’s letters to
Powers, James Farl (Jim); in Ann Arbor; appendectomy of; Avon house of; birth of; caricature of; cars of; childhood of; as conscientious objector during World War II; courtship of Betty; Detachment movement and; dreams of; Dublin office of; early jobs of; early married life; education of; engagement to Betty; fatherhood and family life and ; finances of and ; first published book of; first published story of; Guggenheim grant of and; housing situations and problems of and ; in Ireland; marriage to Betty and ; middle name of and ; in Milwaukee; “the Movement” and; National Book Award of; parole of; political views of and ; in prison; publication of Morte D’Urban and ; publishers of and ; return to St. Cloud; reviews by; reviews on and; rural living of; St. Cloud house of; as St. Joseph’s Hospital orderly; Shanedling Building office of; as sports fan and ; as a teacher; views on Catholic Church ; Vossberg Building office of; at Wahls’ summer cottage and ; wedding of; women and; at Yaddo. See also titles of specific works
Powers, Jane Elizabeth; birth of; childhood of
Powers, Katherine Anne; birth of; childhood of; JFP’s letters to
Powers, Mary Farl; birth of; childhood of; JFP’s letters to
Powers, Richard (Dick)
Powers, Zella Routzong; background of
Presbyterians
“The Presence of Grace” (story)
Presence of Grace, The (story collection)
presidential elections: of 1944 and; of 1948; of 1952; of 1960
Priest, The
Priestley, J. B., Journey Down a Rainbow
“Prince of Darkness,”
Prince of Darkness, and Other Stories
Princeton University
Protestantism
Publishers Weekly
Purdue University
Quakers
Quebec, Canada
Quesnel, Pasquier
Quiet Man, The (film)
Quincy, Illinois
Quincy College Academy; Little Hawks
Quinn, J. Kerker; JFP’s letters to
Rabelais, François
radio
Radio Luxembourg
Radio Moscow
Ramacher, Fr. Edward
Ransom, John Crowe
Ravel, Maurice; La Valse
Rawson, Ramona
Reed College
“Renner,”
Reporter, The
Republican Party (United States)
Respighi, Ottorino
Rice, Warner G.
Rickey, Branch
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay
Roach, Jim
Roberts, Thomas d’Esterre, SJ, Black Popes: Authority; Its Use and Abuse
Robinson, Henry Morton, The Cardinal
Rockefeller Foundation
Rockford, Illinois
Roethke, Theodore
Rogers, Will
Rome, Italy
Roncalli, Angelo Giuseppe (later Pope John XXIII)
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Ross, Lanny
Routzong, Farl
Routzong, Matilda
Roy, Fr. Pacifique
Rule of St. Benedict, The
Russia
“The Sack Race” (provisional title for novel)
Saddler, Sandy
Sagan, Françoise
St. Anthony Village, Oakmont, Pennsylvania
St. Benedict’s, see College of St. Benedict
St. Cloud Diocese
St. Cloud “red house”; demolition of
St. Cloud State College
St. Cloud Times, The
St. John’s Abbey and University, Collegeville, Minnesota
St. Joseph’s Hospital, St. Paul, Minnesota
St. Mary’s Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota
St. Olaf’s, Minneapolis, Minnesota
St. Paul, Minnesota
St. Paul Pioneer Press
St. Paul Saints
St. Paul Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
St. Stephens, Greystones, Ireland
San Antonio, Texas
Sand, George
Sandstone Federal Penitentiary, Sandstone, Minnesota; JFP’s letters from
San Francisco
Saratoga Springs, New York
Sarazen, Gene
Saroyan, William
Saturday Evening Post, The
Saturday Review
Sauk Centre, Minnesota
Schenk, Bp. Francis Joseph
Scherer, Sr. Mary Joseph
Schuman, William
Scotland
Seattle, Washington
Seberger, Albertine Muller; JFP’s letters to
Second Vatican Council
Seide, Michael
Senate, U.S.
sex
Shanedling Building office
Shattuck, Charles; JFP’s letters to
Shattuck, Susan
Shaw, George Bernard
&nbs
p; Shaw, Irwin
Sheen, Bp. Fulton
Sheil, Bp. Bernard James
Sigal, Clancy, Going Away
Sign
Silvers, Phil
Sinatra, Frank
$64,000 Question, The (TV show)
Skillin, Ed
Smedley, Agnes
Smith, Red
Snead, Sam
Society of Midland Authors
Spain
Spellman, Card. Francis Joseph
Speltz, George Henry
Spillane, Mickey
Spiritual Writers’ Conference
sports and . See also specific sports
Sputnik
Stafford, Jean; Boston Adventure; The Mountain Lion
Stagg, A. A.
Standard (magazine)
Standard Oil
Stanford, William Bedell
Stranraer, Scotland
Stearns County, Minnesota
Steinbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Adlai
Stokowski, Leopold
Strobel, Albert; death of; JFP’s letters to
Strobel, Bertha Seberger; death of; JFP’s letters to
Studebaker
Suez Crisis
Sunday Times
Sunday Visitor
Sun Herald, The
Swenson, Eric
Sylvester, Harry and; Moon Gaffney
Symons, Arthur
Taft, Robert A.
Taft-Hartley Act
Taliesin
Tate, Allen
Taylor, Peter; A Long Fourth, and Other Stories
television
Terry (dog)
Texas
Thermod Monsen Award
Thinker’s Digest
Thomas, Joan
Thomas à Kempis and ; The Imitation of Christ
Thye, Edward
Time magazine
“Tinkers”
Today (television show)
Tolstoy, Leo
tomatoes
Townsend, Mary
Trappists
Trenarren Hotel, Greystones, Ireland
Trinity College
“The Trouble,”
Truman, Harry
Turner, Gil
20th Century Limited
“Twenty-Four Hours in a Strange Diocese”
typewriters
United Nations
University of Chicago
University of Detroit
University of Indiana
University of Louisville
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota and ; Golden Gophers
University of Notre Dame
University of Oregon
University of Washington
Updike, John, Pigeon Feathers, and Other Stories
“The Valiant Woman,”
Van Zeller, Dom Hubert
Variety
Vatican
Verlaine, Paul
Vermont
Victoria, British Columbia
Vidal, Gore
Visitor (newspaper)
Volkening, Henry
Vossberg Building office
Wahl, Arthur L. (Art); JFP’s letters to
Wahl, Irene Sticka
Wahl, John Arthur
Wahl, Romana Seberger; JFP’s letters to
Wahl, Fr. Thomas Peter (aka Fr. Caedmon)
Walker, Esther
Walker Art Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
