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585.13 True Story] Popular magazine founded in 1919, similar in content to True Confessions (see note 423.28–29).
585.17 book on war and Sebastopol] Sebastopol Sketches (1855), also known as Sebastopol.
585.33 Epsteins] Works by the American-born British sculptor Jacob Epstein (1880–1959).
585.36 Where Angels Fear to Tread] Novel (1905) by English writer E. M. Forster (1879–1970).
586.4 “Bloomsbury Set.”] Early-twentieth-century English artistic circle that included writers such as art critic Clive Bell (1881–1964), artist and art critic Roger Fry (1866–1934), novelist Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), E. M. Forster, and biographer Lytton Strachey (1880–1932).
586.5 Elizabeth Bowen] Anglo-Irish writer (1899–1973) whose books include the novels The Death of the Heart (1938) and The Heat of the Day (1948), and several collections of short stories.
586.19 Lillian Hellman] American playwright and screenwriter (1905–1984), author of The Little Foxes (1939), Watch on the Rhine (1941), and The Autumn Garden (1951).
586.25 Ewald] Danish poet and dramatist Johannes Ewald (1743–1781).
586.32 Glenway Wescott] American novelist (1901–1987), long resident in France, author of The Apple of the Eye (1924) and The Grandmothers (1927).
587.6–7 Denys Finch Hatton] See note 480.40.
588.37 clef] French: key.
589.27–28 current riots] Writing in 1967, McCullers is referring to the riots that erupted in that year’s “long hot summer” in Newark, Detroit, Atlanta, and other American cities.
589.39–40 Janet Flanner and Natalia Murray] American journalist Janet Flanner (1892–1978), for decades the Paris correspondent for The New Yorker magazine (writing under the pseudonym “Genêt”), and her companion Natalia Danesi Murray (1902–1993), Italian-born radio broadcaster and publishing executive at Mondadori and Rizzoli.
590.18–19 Dorothy Dix] Pseudonym used by Elizabeth Gilmer (1870–1951) for her advice column, which began running in the New York Journal in 1901 and was later syndicated.
590.37 Gladys Hill and Chapman Mortimer] American screenwriter Gladys Hill (1916–1981), whose screenwriting credits along with Reflections in a Golden Eye include The Man Who Would Be King (1975), and Scottish novelist William Charles Chapman-Mortimer (1907–1988), author of Stranger on the Stair (1950) and Father Goose (1951).
591.7 Irish Airlines] Aer Lingus.
592.35–37 Peter Freuchen lost his leg . . . Eskimos.] Danish explorer and novelist Peter Freuchen (1886–1957), who lived for several years in Greenland with the Inuit, was the author of Arctic Adventure: My Life in the Frozen North (1935) and many other books. Freuchen’s left leg was amputated below the knee after he was afflicted with frostbite in 1926.
593.1–3 Cole Porter lost his leg . . . I believe “Night and Day” was written in Harkness Pavilion] Cole Porter wrote the song “Night and Day” (1932) several years before the horseback riding accident in 1937 that severely injured his legs; after numerous operations related to his injuries, his right leg was amputated in 1958. Harkness Pavilion was part of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (now the Columbia University Medical Center) in upper Manhattan.
593.7 Marielle] French-born designer and artist Marielle Bancou (later Bancou-Segal; 1921–2015).
594.18–20 limited editions of Verlaine, Baudelaire . . . André Girard had illustrated them] Editions of selections from Paul Verlaine’s poetry and Charles Baudelaire’s Mon Coeur mis à nu (My Heart Laid Bare) illustrated by Girard (see note 575.28) were published in 1940 and 1954, respectively.
595.21 adopted son of Isabel Whitney] English-born author Gordon Langley Hall, as an adult adopted not by the American painter Isabel Whitney (1878–1962) but by English actor Margaret Rutherford (1892–1972), though Hall lived with Whitney in her Greenwich Village apartment and received a substantial inheritance from her. Hall had sexual reassignment surgery in 1968 and adopted the name Dawn Pepita Langley Simmons (1923–2000).
596.26–27 Sylvia Beach of Paris published Joyce, and softened his hard life.] Joyce had been unable to find a publisher willing to risk publishing Ulysses, excerpts of which had appeared in the American little magazine The Little Review beginning in May 1918. After the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice lodged a complaint of obscenity in 1920, a panel of three judges pronounced Ulysses obscene, fining The Little Review and prohibiting it from continuing its serialization. Chapters from the novel had also been published in England in The Egoist in 1919, but the magazine stopped the serialization because of objections from subscribers and printers’ fears of legal action. Ulysses was first published in 1922 in Paris by the imprint of the Shakespeare and Company bookstore, owned by bookseller, writer, and translator Sylvia Beach (1887–1962).
596.34 Papa Hemingway] Biography (1966) by American novelist, playwright, and biographer A. E. Hotchner (b. 1920), which draws on his thirteen-year friendship with Ernest Hemingway.
600.10 Hervey Cleckley] American psychiatrist (1903–1984), author of The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues About the So-Called Psychopathic Personality (1941) and (with Corbett H. Thigpen) The Three Faces of Eve (1956).
APPENDIX
605.1 The Sojourner: Broadcast Transcription] Introduced by Alistair Cooke, host of the Omnibus television series, “The Sojourner” was broadcast live by the Columbia Broadcast System on the afternoon of Sunday, December 27, 1953, with the following cast:
Ferris
David Wayne
Valentin
Rex Thompson
Mother
Frances Starr
Elizabeth
Neva Patterson
Bailey
Lorne Greene
Billy
Johnny Kellin
Staged by Mel Ferrer
Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Production designed by Henry May
For the TV-Radio Workshop of the Ford Foundation:
Robert Saudek, Executive Producer
Fred Rickey, Producer
Bob Banner, Director
Omnibus, Season 2, Episode 13
Episode running time: 90 minutes
Running time of “The Sojourner”: 26 minutes
606.14–15 mon petit chou.] French term of endearment, literally “my little cabbage.”