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  Hubbard, Keith MacDonald (Leslyn’s sister, Mark’s wife)

  Hubbard. Ron

  biographies of

  “Final Blackout,”

  founding a religion

  RAH rejection of

  RAH writing project with

  Hubbard, Mark

  death as Japanese captive

  Hubbard, Matt and Colin

  Hubbard, Polly

  Huddick, John

  Hughes, Howard

  humanities, studies at the Naval Academy

  human race, future of, in space

  Hunt, Mabel Leigh

  The Huntington Park Signal

  Hutchins, USS (destroyer)

  Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World

  Huxley, T. H.

  hypnosis of dates

  hypocrisy, RAH’s disgust for

  Icaromenippus

  ice skating

  ice skating story

  “If This Goes On—,”

  illumination

  Imperial Valley

  Incredible

  index cards, use in campaigning

  Indianapolis, USS (aircraft carrier)

  Infantry Journal

  Ingalls, Roscoe

  Ingram, Bill

  injustice, RAH unforgiving of

  inspections

  Institute of General Semantics

  insubordination

  international control

  of atomic weapons

  of rocketry

  International Harvester

  interplanetary travel theme

  involutional melancholia

  Ira Johnson, Dr. (character)

  Irvine, Jeanne

  Isip, M.

  isolationism

  Italy, Fascist

  “‘It’s Great to Be Back!’”

  “It’s Impossible!” (alternate title)

  I Will Fear No Evil

  Iwo Jima, battle for

  Jack (a Catholic boy)

  Jacobs, Edward “Jake,”

  Jacobs, Sylvia

  Jameson, Malcolm

  Jameson, Vida

  house guest of the Heinleins

  “The Thirteenth Trunk” (radio play)

  Japan

  atrocities

  attack on Pearl Harbor, and declaration of war

  battles with (1944)

  conquest of home islands, estimate of Allied casualties to accomplish

  culture of, need to be destroyed, according to RAH

  exports of oil and iron to

  invasion of China (1932)

  militarized

  occupation of

  peace overtures at end of War, thought to be buying time

  RAH’s hatred of, after Pearl Harbor attack

  relations with U.S., war “inevitable,”

  resistance strategy (1944)

  surprise attacks by

  unconditional surrender

  Japanese midshipmen, visit from (1927)

  Jazz Age

  Jenkins, Will F.

  Jerome, Jerome K., Three Men in a Boat

  “Jerry Was a Man,”

  Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  Jewish coworkers at AML

  Jews, relocation in Palestine

  Johnson, Elizabeth (great-grandmother)

  Johnson, Mr. (in Technocracy movement)

  Johnstone, Don

  “Journey of Death” (article)

  The Jungle (Sinclair)

  Junior Literary Guild

  juvenile books

  for boys and girls

  conventions and taboos of

  Kamens, Sam

  kamikaze (suicide pilots)

  “kamikaze” think tank of science-fiction writers started by RAH

  Kansas, history of

  Kansas Border War

  Kansas City, Missouri

  adult entertainment in

  Democratic politics in

  gangsters in

  history of

  midshipmen from, in RAH’s classes

  politics in

  RAH’s early days in

  RAH’s later visits to

  See also Pendergast political machine

  The Kansas City Journal

  Kansas City Junior College

  Kansas City Public Library, RAH’s part-time job at

  The Kansas City Star

  Kansas-Moline Plow Company

  Kansas-Nebraska Act of

  Kant, Immanuel

  Kaplan, Joseph

  Kean, John

  Keeping Posted

  Keith, Leslie (pseudonym)

  Kellar, Harry

  Kelvin Club

  Kemp, Earl

  Kendig, Will

  Kimmel, Admiral Husband

  King, Ernest J.

  appointed to high rank by Roosevelt

  RAH serving under on Lexington aircraft carrier

  RAH’s secret wartime projects for

  relieved of duty and career supposedly over

  King, Martha

  Kingsbury Ordnance

  Kingsley, Charles, The Water Babies

  Kinsey, Alfred, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male

  Kipling, Rudyard

  Mary Gloster, RAH memorizes

  verse of

  Kitchin, Elizabeth (grandmother)

  Klein, Alfred M.

  Klein, Saul

  Klyce, Scudder, Universe: A Verifiable Solution to the “Riddle of the Universe,”

  Knepper, Max

  Korda, Alexander

  Korshak, Erle

  Korzybski, Alfred

  General Semantics seminar

  Manhood of Humanity: The Science and Art of Human Engineering

  Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

  Kriegspiel game, played by RAH

  Kuttner, Catherine “Kat” (C. L. Moore) See also Moore, C. L.

  Kuttner, Henry

  “Hollywood on the Moon,”

  Labor movement

  Labor Temple (Los Angeles)

  Laguna Beach, Calif.

  Lang, Fritz

  collaboration with RAH on trip-to-the-moon film story

  Fritz, Willy & Bob and the Summer of ’48

  Langley, USS

  Laning, Caleb Barrett “Cal,” collaborative articles written with RAH “System in the Sky,”

  Laning, Mickey

  “The Last Adventure” (high school verse by RAH)

  “The Last Days of the United States,”

  Las Vegas, Nevada

  Lawrence, Kansas

  Lazia, Johnny

  League of Nations

  Leahy, Admiral, admonishment of RAH

  Lee, Sunrise

  left-wingers, toleration of Soviet totalitarianism

  Leighton’s Cafeteria (Los Angeles)

  Lepper, G. H., From Nebula to Nebula

  Lermer, Andy

  Lermer, Mary Jean

  “‘Let There Be Light,’”

  Lewis, C. S., Screwtape Letters

  Lewis, Samuel L.

  Glory Roads

  Lewis, Sinclair

  Lexington, USS (aircraft carrier)

  aircraft aboard

  fire on

  rotating duty on

  in war games

  Ley, Olga

  Ley, Willy

  association with von Braun alters relationship with RAH

  The Days of Creation

  RAH’s reviews of books by

  Rockets: A Prelude to Space Travel

  Shells and Shooting

  Leyte Gulf, Battle for

  liberalism

  collapse of

  libertarianism

  Liberty Bell, tour of the country in the Great War

  liberty card incident

  Liberty Memorial (Kansas City)

  life after death

  life-drawing class (high school)

  “Life-Line” (RAH’s first sale)

  Life magazine

  life-modeling jo
bs, RAH’s

  The Lighthouse Annapolis student manual

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Lindsey, Judge, Companionate Marriage

  liquor, on board ship

  Literary Guild

  Little Boy

  “Little Boy Lost” (alternate title)

  “little Oklahomas,”

  Loesser, Frank, “The Ballad of Rodger Young,”

  The Log (Naval Academy news magazine)

  “Logic of Empire,”

  London, Jack

  Long Beach, Calif.

  earthquake

  longhand writing, RAH’s

  Long Island City, N.Y.

  long-lifer theme

  Longshoremen’s Union

  Lookout Mountain. See Los Angeles, RAH house in

  Lord & Taylor

  Los Alamos, N.M.

  Los Angeles, Calif.

  overcrowding in, after the war

  RAH goes to live in

  RAH house in (Lookout Mountain address)

  The Los Angeles Examiner

  Los Angeles Junior College

  Los Angeles Science Fiction League (later, Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society—LASFS)

  The Los Angeles Times

  “Lost Legacy,”

  “Lost Legion” (alternate title)

  love stories, essential in commercial fiction

  Low Countries, German invasion of (1940)

  Lowell, Percival

  Lowndes, Robert A. W. “Doc,”

  Lucian, True History

  Lucky Bag yearbook

  Ludekens, Fred

  Luzon, Philippines, Japanese attack on

  lyceum bureaus

  Lyle, Anna (aunt)

  Lyle, Bam (“Aunt”)

  Lyle, Bam (mother)

  golden wedding anniversary

  letter to

  move to Hollywood

  not nurturing to RAH

  Lyle, Dr. Alva Evans (grandfather)

  death of

  Lyle, Park (uncle)

  Lyle, Robert (great-grandfather)

  Lyle, Robert (great-great-grandfather)

  Lyle family

  Irish roots of

  meaning of surname

  Lyon, Charles W.

  M

  MacArthur, Douglas

  MacDonald, Anson (pseudonym)

  MacDonald, Colin

  MacDonald, Florence Gleason “Skipper” (Leslyn’s mother)

  death of

  MacDonald, Leslyn (second wife)

  affairs

  alcoholic deterioration

  alcoholism developing in

  article by, on V-2 rocket firing

  badmouthing of RAH, pre-divorce

  balance in relationship with RAH

  bouts of rage

  communication with RAH after the divorce

  “Communists are Religious Fanatics,”

  cooking of

  depression of

  disappearance of records concerning, and consequent obliteration of direct view of

  dissatisfaction with marriage with RAH

  divorce proposed

  downhill life of, after divorce

  extramarital affairs

  fight with RAH’s brother Rex Ivar

  files for divorce

  final satisfactory year of wartime work

  fired from Point Mugu job, and joins AA

  friends who took her side in split

  gallstone problem and operation

  health improving (1946)

  health problems

  ill health from war work

  instability of

  jealousy of Ginny

  lack of support from friends during breakup

  learns of release of relatives from Japanese prison camp

  literary agentry of

  magical practices of

  marriage to Jules Mocabee

  marriage to RAH

  personality changes after three years of marriage

  pet name for

  physical, mental, spiritual deterioration in wartime job

  poems for publication

  poem to RAH, “Little Miss Hitter-Skitter,”

  poison-pen letters

  political campaigning by

  political leanings of, as radical liberal

  political work for the Democratic Party in California

  post-divorce dealings with RAH

  psychological background of

  psychotic episodes

  RAH’s appreciation of

  recipe published in Sunset Magazine

  recovering from stress, ordered confined to bed

  rehabilitation of disabled veterans

  relationship with RAH during World War II

  resistence to psychological help

  science fiction stories writing plan

  sexual relations

  sister’s family trapped in the Philippines

  state of RAH’s marriage with, after six years

  stress from homelessness on post-war return to Hollywood

  studying Korzybski’s semantics

  suicide attempt

  supporting and mentoring role of

  supportive of RAH’s science fiction writing ideas

  tachycardia

  wartime strains on marriage

  war work

  weakened physical and emotional state, from wartime strain

  wishes to see RAH post-divorce

  at WorldCon

  as writing “coach” (story doctor)

  Macmillan Company

  “Madcap Enterprises” (L. Ron Hubbard’s)

  magazine subscriptions, RAH’s selling, at age nine

  magic

  “Magic, Incorporated,”

  magic tricks, RAH’s fascination with

  Maginot Line

  Maine

  Maine, USS, explosion on

  Major-Browning class

  Malina, Frank

  Malzberg, Barry

  Managua, Nicaragua, earthquake at

  Mañana Literary Society (MLS)

  Manchuria

  Mandelkorn, Dick

  Manhattan Engineer District (“Manhattan Project”)

  scientists of

  “Man in the Moon” (article)

  “The Man Who Sold the Moon,”

  prediction of Moon landing in

  “The Man Who Traveled in Elephants,”

  “The Man Who Was Too Lazy to Fail,”

  Marais des Cygnes, Missouri

  Mardi Gras

  Marie, Queen of Romania

  marijuana

  Maritime Strike (San Francisco)

  marriage

  forbidden to midshipmen

  open

  marriage-reform movements

  Mars

  Mars Hill observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz.

  Martin T4M torpedo bombers

  Marvel magazine

  Marx, Karl

  Marxism

  Maskeraders (Naval Academy’s drama society)

  Masons

  Massey, Raymond

  mathematical symbology

  mathematics

  academic courses in

  RAH’s private study of

  Matz, Dr. Philip B.

  Mayer, Louis B.

  McBee, Alice

  death of

  McCauley, Clayton

  McClurg’s Book News

  McComas, Annette

  McComas, J. Francis

  McHugh, Vincent

  Caleb Catlum’s America

  I Am Thinking of My Darling

  McKinley, William

  McPherson, Aimee Semple

  medicine and doctoring, when RAH was growing up

  Meitner, Lise

  Mencken, H. L.

  “Men in the Moon,”

  merchant marines

  Mercury Artists Agency

  Merriam, Frank

  won California governor’s race

  Merriam for Governor organization

  �
�Merriam Tax” (anti-Sinclair fundraising organization)

  Meteor Crater, Arizona

  Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC)

  Methuselah’s Children

  book project

  publication

  “Methuselah’s Children” (story)

  Metropolis

  Metropolitan Water District Strike

  Mexico, agricultural workers from (braceros)

  MGM studios

  Michelson, Albert Abraham

  Midland Manufacturing Company (Midland Implements)

  migrant farm workers

  military service

  Heinlein family tradition of

  romance of

  Millay, Edna St. Vincent

  Miller, Russell, Bare-Faced Messiah

  mining, financial backing for

  “Misfit,”

  missile research

  Missouri

  history of, before and after the Civil War

  religious denominations in

  volunteer infantry, inadequate provisioning of

  Missouri Compromise of

  Missouri National Guard

  Missouri Synod Lutherans

  Mitchell, Greg, Campaign of the Century

  Mocabee, Jules

  Modernism

  Moise, Stanley

  mokusatsu (kill with silence)

  money

  money game, RAH’s plans to write about

  monopolies

  Monroe, James

  Monroe, K. (Sophia) (great-grandmother)

  Monroe, Lyle (pseudonym)

  Moon, trip to, film story

  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

  Moon landing

  Air Force announces intent (1946)

  RAH’s yearning and planning for

  moon rocket project

  discussed in Truman’s cabinet

  impetus from Navy research

  RAH’s

  Moore, C. L. “Cat” (pseudonym of Catherine Kuttner)

  “Shambleau,”

  See also Kuttner, Catherine

  Morrison, Marion (John Wayne)

  Moskowitz, Sam

  Moten, Benny

  Motor Boys series

  Moulton, F. R.

  Mount Suribachi, raising of U.S. flag on

  movies, selling stories to

 

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