by Leslie Brody
332 “So get your safe, legal abortion”: JM et al., “She’s Come for an Abortion,” Harper’s, November 1992, 43-54.
333 “I don’t think I’ll get death threats”: Robert Boynton. “Profile of Jessica Mitford” Newsday, 13 December 1992.
333 “were prob. due to being more than tiddly at the time”: JM to Debo, 23 December 1994, in Decca, ed. Sussman, 689.
333 “grossly inflated with alcohol”: Dinky, interview by author, March 2009.
333 “intellectual”: Ibid.
333 “I’ve ruined your life”: Dinky, interview by author, May 2006.
333 “eventually Decca thought that Dinky was the strongest person in the world”: Kathy Kahn, interview by author, December 2006.
334 “I know I wouldn’t be any good at it—all that appalling Frank Talk etc”: JM to Debo, 23 December 1994, in Decca, ed. Sussman, 689.
334 “A time aeons ago Pele”: JM to Dinky, 6 February 1995, OSU.
334 “I’ve gone on the wagon”: JM to Debo, 23 December 1994, in Decca, ed. Sussman, 689.
335 “cut a Rock and Roll record”: Karen Leonard, interview by author, October 2008.
335 “profound depths . . . which only bullfrogs could duplicate on a clear night”: Cynthia Robbins, “The Gentle Art of Singing ‘Bang! Bang!’ Jessica Mitford Cuts a Record,” San Francisco Express, 30 January 1995.
335 “doesn’t have a lot”: Patricia Holt, “Barroom Belter,” San Francisco Gate, 28 July 1996.
336 “Can’t you make her stop?”: Katie Edwards, interview by author, December 2006.
336 “T’was on the ground of Swinbrook”: Kathi Goldmark, interview by author, July 2009. Audrey deChadenedes and Tony Goldmark are also listed as lyricists.
337 “Needless to say I was absolutely astonished”: JM to Fred Hill, 6 October 1995, OSU.
337 “cast SCI in a bad light clothed in wit and humor”: JM, quoting Thomas McDade fax to JM, 27 January 1996, in Decca, ed. Sussman, 703n159.
337 “I’m extremely anxious to get the facts straight”: JM to Thomas R. McDade, 27 January 1996, OSU.
338 “panic-stricken”: Karen Leonard, interview by author, October 2008.
338 “Doesn’t hurt at all”. . . “Possibly late autumn or even Xmas”: JM to Debo, [date unknown] July 1996, in Decca, ed. Sussman, 711.
338 “SO much better than just being hit by a car or in plane wreck”: JM to Debo, 11 July 1996, in Decca, ed. Sussman, 713.
339 “denounce wonderfully”: Herb Gold, interview by author, December 2007.
339 “I know it must seem v. odd”: JM and RT to Dinky and Benjy, March 1993, OSU.
340 “Bob—it’s so ODD to be dying”: JM to RT, 10 July 1996, in Decca, ed. Sussman, 711.
341 “Can you tell me who the President is?” to which she answered “That’s not my fault!” Karen Leonard, interview by author, October 2008.
AFTERWORD
343 “most hated funeral director in California”: Karen Leonard, interview by author, October 2008.
343 “goods and services”: Karen Leonard to Robert Waltrip, 24 July 1996, in Decca, ed. Sussman, 717.
343 “$15.45 for the cremation container”: Karen Leonard to Robert Waltrip, 24 July 1996, in Decca, ed. Sussman, 717.
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INDEX
A
abortion
Abzug, Bella
Ackerberg, Peter
acting
activism: antiauthoritariananti-HUAC Committeeby Barbara Kahn Berkeley Co-Op for civil rights, as subversive by the CRC during Debo’s visit Decca as “muckraker,”, ; A Fine Old Conflict on “Free Huey” campaign Greensboro lunch counter sit-in against housing segregation introductions via pee-in against police brutality SNC Vietnam War. See Vietnam War protests; for Willie McGee youth see also cause parties; labor activism
A Fine Old Conflict (Mitford)
After Long Silence (Straight)
Alabama National Guard
Albert, Stew
Albion College
Alcatraz guard unionization
Alexander, Hursel
Alexandria
Allen, Woody
Alvarez, A.
America: Decca as citizen of Decca’s fondness for Esmond on first impressions of friendliness in playing to snobbery in shopping in social customs socialism as anti- train ride across wartime regulations in
The American Way of Birth (Mitford): Decca on Dinky’s birth in midwifery obstetric industry abuse source material writing of
The American Way of Death (Mitford): byline Decca on cremation difficulty publishing embalming floral industry funeral industry attacks goal of idea to write industry changes from marketing ideas publication of success of updating
Anderson, Judith
Angelou, Maya
antifascism: Decca’s support for Decca writes on of Esmond as fueled in Bob growing commitment to at Harvard May Day 1938 protests
anti-Semitism: fears, for independent Hungary of the Kristallnacht of Muv U.S.
Aptheker, Bettina
Arens, Richard
Arensberg, Walter
assimilation
Atlantic
Auden, W. H.
&
nbsp; B
Baker, Josephine
Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo
Barlow, Andrew and Yvonne
Battle of Britain
Battle of City Hall
Battle of Stalingrad
Bay Area Funeral Society
Bayonne, France
Belfrage, Cedric
Bellagio
Benjy. See Treuhaft, Benjamin (Benjy)
Bensonhurst
Berkeley Barb
Berkeley Co-Op
Berkeley Tribe
Bermondsey Labour Party
Bernstein, Al
Bernstein, Carl
Bernstein, Leonard and Felicia
Bernstein, Sylvia
Betts, Mrs.
Bilbao
Black, Hugo
Black, Josephine
Black Friday
Black Panthers: Bob’s legal defense of Decca’s support for Hampton, Fred Newton, Huey P. Seale as chairman of
Blor, Nanny
Boadilla (Romilly)
Bob. See Treuhaft, Robert “Bob”
Borme-les-Mimosas
Boston
Boyle, Kay
Boynton, Robert
The Bracelet to Julia (Herrick)
Bridges, Harry
British Embassy
British Royal Air Force
British Union of Fascists
Browder, Earl
Brown, Archie
Buckley, William F.
Bundles for Britain
C
Caen, Herb
camping
Canadian Air Force
Canwell, Albert
“Can You Afford to Die?” (Tunley)
capitalism
cartoons, political
Casket and Sunnyside
Cavendish, Andrew
Cavendish, Deborah. See Mitford (Cavendish), Deborah (Dowager Duchess of Devonshire)
