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Suitable Accommodations: An Autobiographical Story of Family Life: The Letters of J. F. Powers, 1942-1963

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by J. F. Powers


  Gleason, Jackie

  Gogarty, Oliver St. John

  Going My Way (TV series)

  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 Quarterly 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

  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

 

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