Irrepressible

by Leslie Brody

  Cerf, Bennett

  Chamberlain, Prime Minister Neville

  Chancery Court

  Charles, Victor

  Chatsworth

  Chicago Eight

  childhood: aristocratic dissatisfaction with home life frustrated intellectualism Inch Kenneth reminders of morbid curiosity nostalgia for; in a teeming household

  Chizzoli family

  Churchill, Winston: becomes Prime Minister; Dinky petitions; invoked as aid to travel restriction; meets Decca about Esmond’s death; open letter to; as political philosopher; radio addresses; Romilly as nephew of

  citizenship application

  Civil Rights Congress (CRC): in Berkeley; Decca’s work for; end of; HUAC subpoenas Decca over; struggles of; Willie McGee case

  civil rights movement: Berkeley activism; Bob’s legal defense of; debate over allies; First Baptist Church riots; Freedom Rides; Greensboro lunch counter sit-in; journalism on; McGee’s statement about; Willie McGee case

  class issues: aristocratic vocabulary; Bob’s exposure to Mitford lifestyle; Decca’s aristocratic backdoor; gap between Debo and Decca; ignorance of public utilities; in Julia’s upbringing; in public wards

  Cleaver, Eldridge

  Clinton, Hillary Rodham

  Coakley, J. Frank: vs. Bob Treuhaft; Decca’s dislike of; indicts Oakland Seven; Newson case

  Cockburn, Alexander

  Cockburn, Claud

  Codornices Village

  Coe, John

  COINTELPRO

  Cold War: domestic politics; ideological basis; spies; tensions; Truman Loyalty Order

  Collins, Lucretia

  Columbia Hospital

  communal living: for child-care help; within the Communist Party

  Communist International (Comintern)

  Communist Party, England: decision not to join; Esmond advocates for; headquarters; writers

  Communist Party USA: activism by; agenda at meetings; Bob joins; Bob Treuhaft on; civil rights for members; CRC defends members; Decca joins; Decca on reasons for joining; Decca’s promotion within; Decca’s subpoena regarding; donation of inheritance to; Dubinsky’s dislike for; Ethel and Julius Rosenberg as members; vs. fascist ideology; FBI trail Decca in; friends in; goes underground HUAC hearings; interest in, misunderstood; journalists within; leadership changes; McCarthy era persecution; membership for government workers; national conference; psychological requirements; publicizing membership in; social perceptions of; Supreme Court overturns convictions for; sympathizers in Petaluma; travel restriction; Treuhafts leave U.S. citizenship requirement; U.S. war on; West Coast; Women’s Commission

  Communist Political Association

  Congressional Dies Committee

  Congress of Industrial Organizations

  Congress of Racial Equality’s (CORE) Freedom Rides

  Connor, Bull

  conspiracy laws

  Corsica

  Cox, Donald

  Crane, Mrs. Murray

  Craven A cigarettes

  Crawford, Nebby Lou

  cremation

  Cuba

  Cummings, e. e.

  D

  Daily Express

  Daily Mail

  Daily Telegraph

  Daily Worker

  Daughters and Rebels (Mitford). See Hons and Rebels (Mitford)

  death, of Decca

  Deborah. See Mitford Cavendish, Deborah (Dowager Duchess of Devonshire)

  Debussy, Claude

  debutante season

  Decca and the Dectones

  Degnan, James P.

  de la Mora, Constancia

  deLappe, Pele: as artist; Berkeley Hills move; bio of; childhood; on Decca; Hons cover design; on jealousy; on Nicky’s funeral; romance with Randall; on the Rosenberg execution; son as schizophrenic; as a teacher; writing committee member; “Vicky Says” column

  Democratic National Convention

  Dempsey, Jack

  Dennis, Eugene

  Depression, Great

  Der Stürmer

  Devonshire, Duke of

  DeWitt, Addison

  Diana. See Mitford (Mosley), Diana

  Dicks, Laura

  Dies Jr., Martin

  Dinky. See Romilly, Constancia “Dinky”

  Dissent

  Dobby (Doris Brin Marasse Walker): arrest of; citizenship application aid; in the Communist Party; on Decca’s independence; law firm work; meets Decca; at Nicky’s funeral

  Donahue

  Don’t Tell Alfred (Nancy Mitford)

  Draheim, Sue

  drinking: accidents and illness from; Decca on her; drunken actions; at the Happy Valley Bar; as infamous; with Kay Meyer; to mourn Julia; after Nicky’s death; per-day consumption; pre-interview; stopping; writing and

  Dr. Strangelove

  drugs: Decca’s view of; Kesey, Ken; prison trials

  Drummonds account

  Dubinsky, David

  DuBois, W. E. B.

  DuClos, Jacques

  Duncan, Isadora

  Durr, Ann

  Durr, Clifford

  Durr, Lucy

  Durr, Tilla

  Durr, Virginia: baby Dinky stays with; meets Bob Treuhaft; on the Cold War; Decca lives with; Decca loans money to; on Esmond’s death; family parties; friendship with Decca; on Joe Gelders; on McCarthy; meets Decca; at the Montgomery riots

  E

  Eden, Anthony

  Edgware

  Edises, Bert

  education: from brother Tom; Communist; by Decca; of Decca by Washington; Decca’s lack of formal; false college degree; Highlander Folk School in Tennessee; home schooling; of Pele deLappe; self-taught cultural

  Edwards, Catherine “Katie,”

  Edward VIII

  Einstein, Albert

  England: Bermondsey Labour Party; Decca’s reputation in; downplays German aggression; mid-1930s politics; stationing with Esmond; Treuhaft family trip to wartime rationing

  Engstrom, Eleanor

  Ephron, Nora

  Esmond. See Romilly, Esmond

  Esquire

  Evening Standard

  F

  Faces of Philip (Mitford)

  family politics, Mitford: barred from Muv in California; Decca and Diana avoid; Decca on; Decca’s public break with; as limiting travel; schisms resulting from; Tom as supposed fascist; youthful

  family relationships, Mitford: Decca and Debo; Decca and Nancy; Decca and Unity; Decca’s inheritance donation strains; at family reunion; lifestyle gaps; Nancy and Decca write on; with Nanny Blor; politics as marring; rare honesty in; and Romilly; scrapbook flap; sibling games; sisters’ personalities; tenderness in; Tom as only son; after Unity’s suicide attempt; untangling inherited mores

  Famous Writers School

  Farrer, Joan

  fascism: vs. Communism; Decca’s fight against; of Mitford family, Decca on; Muv’s support for; of sister Diana; Tom as rumored ally to; of Unity

  Faulkner, William

  Farve. See Mitford, David “Farve” (Lord Redesdale)

  FBI: Communist Party scrutiny; HUAC partnership; Hoover as director of; response to potential probes; shoots Fred Hampton

  FBI file, on Decca: The American Way of Death period; decision to continue; extent of; formation of; funeral research; meeting a creator of; Montgomery riots in; on petition to travel; relationship to Farve in; SF Chronicle firing for; on Vietnam protest

  Federal Workers Union

  Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

  Fifth, pleading the

  fingerprinting

  First Baptist Church, Montgomery

  Fles, Barthold

  Flor D’Italia

  Fonda, Jane

  Forest Lawn Cemetery

  Forman, Chaka Esmond Fanon

  Forman, James

  Forman, James Robert Lumumba

  Foster, William Z.

  Foundry Methodist Church

  Franco, General

  Frantz, Laurent

  Franz, Marg
e Gelders: on A Fine Old Conflict; on Bob; on Decca’s drinking; early-life bio; at HUAC hearings; on Lifeitselfmanship; moves West; on Nancy; Oakland Seven trial; in writing committee

  Freedom Riders

  Free French government

  “Free Huey” campaign

  Freeman-Mitford, David, See Mitford, David “Farve” (Lord Redesdale)

  Free Speech Movement

  Fresno

  Frieden, Evie

  friends: African American; Angelou, Maya; deLappe, Pele; Dobby Walker; Durr, Virginia; in England; Frantz, Marge Gelders; Kahn, Barbara; Meyer, Kay; Straight, Binnie; Toynbee, Philip; at the Treuhaft parties; writer

  Friends Apart (Toynbee)

  Frontier

  fuel conservation

  fund-raising: for Bob’s DA campaign; creative ideas; organized in 1953; Panther Defense Fund; People’s Daily World party; for the SF Chronicle; for Tom Mooney Memorial California Labor

  School

  funeral, of Decca

  funeral co-ops: Decca as advocate of; handling of union deaths

  Funeral Directors of San Francisco

  funeral industry: vs. The American Way of Death; capitalism of; changes to; invites Decca to a convention; “Mitford” coffins; ongoing investigation of; Tunley researches

  Fursland, Anthea

  G

  Gach, Frederick and Anna

  Galbraith, John Kenneth

  Gallup

  gambling: by Albin Treuhaft; with Donahue in NY; of Esmond; job offered to Decca; at SF parties

  Garment Workers Union

  Garroway, Dave

  Garry, Charles

  Garry, Thomas D.

  Gary, Borece

  Gary, Constance

  Gary, Wilbur

  Gary family

  Gelders, Joe

  Gelders, Marge. See Franz, Marge Gelders

  Genet, Jean

  Germany: Bob Treuhaft’s visit to; Kristallnacht; rising military aggression; see also Hitler, Adolf

  Ginsberg, Allen

  Gladstein, Grossman, Sawyer and Edises

  Gladstein, Richard

  Glasser, Abraham

  Glossop, Honoria

  Gold, Herb

  Goldmark, Kathi Kamen

  Gollancz Publishers

  Gottlieb, Robert: on A Fine Old Conflict; as Decca’s editor; on Decca as muckraker; on Decca’s money

  “Grace Darling,”

  Grace Had an English Heart (Mitford)

  Graham, Katharine

  Grande Hotel de Calvi

  Grant, Joanne

  The Great American Funeral

  Great Terror, second

  Green, Buddy

  Greenglass, David

  Greenglass, Ruth

  Greenwich Village

  Grogan, Ed

  Grossman, Aubrey

  Grossman, Danny

  Grossman, Hazel

  Guerneville

  Guinness, Bryan

  Guinness, Catherine

  Guinness, Jonathan

  Guiton family

  Gumbo (Albert), Judy

  H

  Haight-Ashbury

  Hajos, Aranka. See Treuhaft, Aranka

  Hall, Barbara

  Hammett, Dashiell

  Hampton, Fred

  Hannibal Crossing the Alps

  Harper’s

  Harvard University

  Hastings, Selena

  Hawkins, Williametta

  Hayden, Tom

  Hellman, Lillian

  Herman, Jan

  Highlander Folk School in Tennessee

  Hill, Derek

  Hill, Frederick

  Hill, Heywood

  Hilliard, David

  Hinckle III, Warren

  Hiss, Alger

  Hitler, Adolf: death of; Decca on killing; invades the Netherlands; learns of Decca’s elopement; Mitford tea with; Muv’s sympathy for; nonaggression pact with Stalin; Unity’s friendship with; Unity’s potential break with; as witness to Diana’s wedding

  Hoffman, Abbie

  Hollywood

  Hollywood Ten

  Holt, Patricia

  Hons and Rebels (Mitford): Nancy on publication of; title debate; writing of

  Hoover, J. Edgar

  Hopson, Louise

  Horne, Ann Farrer

  Hôtel Paradis

  Houghton Mifflin

  House Committee on Un-American Activities: activism against; the bar as terrorized by; on civic activism as Communist; Decca’s first impression of; jails writer Hammett; Jerry Rubin at; as making Decca American; mandate of; McCarthy era; Red Tide scare; sentences Hollywood Ten; subpoenas the Treuhafts

  “Howl” (Ginsberg)

  Hungary: Decca’s misimpressions of; Hungarians; Soviets crush uprising in; Treuhafts on socialism in

  Hurok, Sol

  I

  immigrants, U.S.: Aranka as; assimilation; Bob as educated by; Decca as; NY Jewish; Russian-Jewish, in Petaluma

  Inch Kenneth: Decca sells; family reunion on; Farve on; last summer with Muv; loneliness of; memoir writing on; Muv and Farve on; as sisters’ inheritance; Treuhafts buy; Unity and Muv on

  Independent Progressive Party

  Ingram, Kevin

  Ingram, William

  inheritance: Decca as banned from Redesdale; Inch Kenneth; from Nellie

  Internal Security Division

  International Brigades

  Izzy Gomez’s

  J

  Jackson, Derek

  Jackson, Mississippi

  Japanese internment

  Jeanette Rankin Brigade

  Jeffers, Robinson

  Jew Süss

  jobs: Civil Rights Congress (CRC); glamour of subversive; ideology of employment; jewelry sales in Miami; lecture tour idea; market researcher; Meyer commissions; OPA inspector; performing career; professorial; and relational power balance; secretary; Washington Post article/ad for; Weinberger’s dress shop; see also activism; journalism

  Johnson, Diane

  Johnson, Lyndon

  Johnson, Samuel

  journalism: abortion research; apprenticeship in; on the civil rights movement; CRC work; Decca’s advice on; Dr. Spock trial coverage; exposing Famous Writers School con; fame for; on “fat farms,” ; as a goal; honing ability for; interviews, learning to take; McGee case reports; Meyer commissions on Montgomery riots; muckraking; objectivity in; People’s Daily World application; personal style; porn industry; radical; “St. Peter, Don’t You Call Me,” tour circuit; “Trial by Headline”; see also writing

  Joyce, James

  Julia. See Romilly, Julia

  K

  Kahn, Barbara

  Kahn, Ephraim

  Kahn, Kathy

  Kempton, Murray

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kennedy, Robert

  Kesey, Ken

  KGB spy

  Khrushchev

  Kim, Jungmin

  Kind and Usual Punishment (Mitford)

  King Jr., Reverend Martin Luther

  Kliot, Al

  Knopf

  Koko (dog)

  Kopkind, Andrew

  Krieger, Wilbur M.

  Kristallnacht

  Kubrick, Stanley

  Ku Klux Klan

  Kunstler, William

  L

  labor activism: Congress of Industrial Organizations; in the Durr household; education; by Joe Gelders

  Lady Chatterley’s Lover

  Landauer, Ida

  Lang, Dan

  Lapin, Adam

  Lapin, Eva

  Lapin, Mark

  Lasch, Christopher

  Ledbetter, Huddie William (Leadbelly)

  Leftists: authors; Bloomsbury meeting-place for; Decca’s written spoofing of; Esmond and Decca as; ideological disputes; Marge Gelders; new generation of; as pro-price control; “reactionary” as used by

  Legg, Sheila

  Lenin

  Leonard, Karen

  Lerner, Gerda

  Lessi
ng, Doris

  Lewis, John

  Life

  Lifeitselfmanship; or, How to Become a Precisely-Because Man: An Investigation into Current L (or Left-Wing) Usage (Mitford)

  Linton-on-Ouse

  Livingston, Mary Walton

  Lomax, Alan

  London Times

  Lorca, Federico García

  Los Angeles

  Lothian, Lord

  Lottie

  The Loved One

  The Loved One (Waugh)

  Love in a Cold Climate (Nancy Mitford)

  Lovell, Mary

  loyalty oath, professor’s

  Loyalty Order

  M

  MacGibbon, James

  Maine Chance

  marijuana

  marriage, to Bob: Aranka on; Bob’s affair; child rearing; courtship; Decca looks back on; family parties; his pursuit of her West; home life; intimacy of; jealousy; odes to her; proposal; retirement years; wedding ceremony

  marriage, to Esmond: basis of; Decca as soldier’s wife; deepening intimacy in; equality in; lack of money; long-distance strains; Martha’s Vineyard vacation; Virginia Durr on; wedding ceremony

  Martha’s Vineyard

  Maverick, Maury

  May Day

  Mayflower Hotel

  McCall’s

  McCarran Act

  McCarthy, Joseph Raymond

  McClure, Jane

  McClure, Michael

  McDew, Charles

  McGee, Rosalee

  McGee, Willie

  medical system: Hillary Clinton’s reform efforts; obstetrics; pee-in activism; psychiatry; public wards

  memorial services, for Decca

  Menemsha Inn

  Meyer, Agnes

  Meyer, Eugene: as a big shot; commissions by; Decca on; finds work for Decca; gold mining success

  Meyer, Kay

  Miami

  military service: avoiding the draft; by black soldiers; by the Mitford family; personnel deployment; Romilly, Esmond; Treuhaft as unfit for

  Misdeal (Gerstein)

  The Mitford Girls

  Mitford (Cavendish), Deborah “Debo” (Dowager Duchess of Devonshire): as British nobility; censors Nancy’s estate; curiosity about Decca’s memoir; daughter Emma; Decca’s relationship to lifestyle marriage to Cavendish; scrapbook flap; sense of humor; Society of Hons; visits Oakland

  Mitford, David “Farve” (Lord Redesdale): crackpot schemes; cuts Decca from the will; death of; Decca’s pain about; on Decca’s running away; Inch Kenneth home; Muv and Decca discuss; personality of; schism with Decca; splits with Muv over politics; teasing of; writes at Nicky’s birth