New York Herald, 56
New York Herald-Tribune, 131, 278
New York Junior League, 104
New York Times, 99, 107, 178, 216, 273
New York World-Telegram, 206
New York World’s Fair (1939–40), 154
The New Yorker: Gibbs’s parody Of H. M. Pulham, Esquire, 141; Hamburger’s profile of JPM, 28, 245; JPM’s opinion Of, 181; obituary tribute to JPM, 99; Women and Thomas Harrow reviewed, 289–90
Newburyport, Mass., 30, 35, 41, 89, 114, 118, 120, 142, 168, 177, 278, 293; Anna Jacques Hospital, 248; Harvard Club, 45, 259; High School, 35, 41, 45, 48, 106; JPM’s funeral, 295; Lord Timothy Dexter in, 286–87; Tuesday Night Club, JPM’s papers, 258, 269; see also Curzon’s Mill; Kent’s Island
No Hero, 79
Norris, Kathleen, 134
North of Grand Central, 97n, 183
North Shore, 112
Northeastern University, 247
Oakman, John, 40, 117; in Wickford Point, 119–20
Oakman, Margaret Marquand (Aunt Greta, Mrs. Herbert Dudley Hale, Mrs. John Oakman), 31, 40, 117, 126, 127, 208; death and will, 203, 207; JPM asks her for settlement of Curzon’s Mill property, 204–5; in Wickford Point, 119, 207
Oakman, Renée, 40, 117–18; and Curzon’s Mill estate, 203; interview on JPM, 208; in Wickford Point, 119
Oliver, Edna May, 126
O’Malley, Ernie, 102
O’Malley, Helen Hooker (Adelaide’s sister), 102, 166
O’Neill, Eugene, 151
O’Reilly, Peter M., lawsuit, 100–1, 122, 125, 140–41
Orient, JPM in, 79, 102–3, 108–10, 268–69
Osborn, Paul, Point of No Return dramatization, 217
Ostrom, John, 243
Ostrom, Mrs. John (Kitty), 243
Otis, William, 73
Owl Club, Harvard, 42, 43
Paris, JPM in, 66–71
Parker, Dorothy, 181
Parsons, Mr. and Mrs. Donald, 243
Patrick, Ted, 233, 234
Pearl Harbor attack, 138
Peking, JPM in, 102, 108
Pentagon, 230–31
Pepys, Samuel, Diary, 38, 119
Perkins, Maxwell, 194
Pershing, Gen. John J., 53
Pete (JPM’s Filipino servant), 105
Phelan, Judge, 209, 210
Pinehurst, N.C.: architecture, 241; Carol at, 280, 291; Carol supervises housekeeping, 285; JPM at, 240–43, 256, 281, 283, 284, 287, 291, 293; Nandina Cottage, 241, 243, 299
Plato, Republic, 185
Plattsburg, N.Y., Officers’ Training Camp, 54
Pleasants, Miss, 243, 285, 286
Point of No Return, 203, 213–19, 228, 243–44, 262, 296; background studies, 201–3; Geismar’s review, 216–17; play, 217, 264; title, 201
Porcellian Club, Harvard, 42–45, 48
Potter, Brooks, 238, 276, 295
Powel, Harford, 214
Powers, John Robert, 118
Prescott, Orville, 273
“The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,” 135
Pulitzer Prize, 100, 131, 134, 151, 168, 179
Pusey, Mrs, Nathan M. (Anne), 297, 298
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, The Yearling (motion picture), 156
Ray, Floyd, 243, 294
Ray, Julia, 243, 279, 294
Reed, John, 125, 126
Reed, Mrs. Joseph Verner, 186
Reno, Nev.: Adelaide in, 277; JPM in, 277–79
Repent in Haste, 195–200, 282
Research Corporation, 103
Resor, Stanley, 58
Richard (servant at Treasure Island), 221, 224
Rickenbacker, Edward, 135
Ricker, Mr. and Mrs., at Kent’s Island, 247
Riesman, David, The Lonely Crowd, 218
Roberts, Kenneth, 97n, 125, 183
Robinson, Robert (“Hard Rock”), 241, 243
Rochester, University of, 247
Rockefeller, John D., III, 105; search for summer house, 111–12
Rockefeller, Mrs. John D., III (Blanchette, Adelaide’s sister), 18, 22, 28, 102, 105
Rockingham Park race track, 113
Rogue River, Ore., 156
Rome, 60, 211
Roosevelt, Archibald, 48
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 99, 103
Roosevelt, T. R. (father of Theodore), 43
Roosevelt, Theodore, 103
Rose, Stuart, 133, 268, 270
Rose Island, Bahamas, 222
Rosenwald, Lessing J., 135
Russell, Rosalind, 155
Rye, N.Y., JPM’s childhood in, 32
Ryerson, Edward L., Jr., 135
St. Mark’s School, 45
St. Mihiel, 55
St. Paul’s School, 45
Salem, Mass., Hale lawsuit in, 209
Salmen, Stanley, 230, 232, 251, 259, 260, 287
San Francisco, 279
Saturday Evening Post, 58–59, 61, 63, 67, 121, 123, 129, 159, 188, 228; JPM’s first story, 57; and JPM’s trips to Orient, 79, 268; The Late George Apley serialized, 98; Little, Brown advertisement offends, 133–34; and Stopover: Tokyo, 268, 272–73; Wickford Point serialized, 131–33
Saturday Review of Literature: Conney Fiske’s profile of JPM, 128–31; JPM’s article, “Do You Know the Brills?” 126
Scaife, Roger, 132
Scherman, Harry, 186, 255, 287
Schneider, Anne Kaufman, 164
Scott, Sir Walter, 37
Scribner’s, Charles, Sons, 60, 63
Seal Harbor, Me., 112
Sears, Mr., 116
Sedgwick, A. C., Jr., 80
Sedgwick, Mrs. Alexander C., 51, 60–62, 67, 78–80
Sedgwick, Christina, see Marquand, Christina Sedgwick
Sedgwick, Ellery (Uncle Ellery), 52, 61, 71, 90, 123, 124, 160, 239
Sedgwick Minturn, 78–79
Sedgwick, Judge Theodore, 51–52
Sedgwick, the Rev. Theodore, 238
Sedgwick family, 43, 51–52, 60–63, 67, 68, 78, 87, 106, 123
Sedgwick House, Stockbridge, Mass., 38–39, 60, 79, 299; dog cemetery, 80, 239
Shady Hill School, Cambridge, 18
Shakespeare, William, 37, 185
Shattuck, Henry, 150
Shearwood, George, 243; in Africa with JPM, 292
Siegel, Sol, 267
Silver Hill Sanitarium, 138, 275
Simpson, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace, 243
Sincerely, Willis Wayde, 243, 245, 261–63; as serial, 260
Sions, Harry, and JPM’s Holiday article, 233–37, 259
Smith, William James, 289
So Little Time, 167–73, 195, 197, 200; characters taken from life, 169; sales, 173; title, 172
Social Register, Boston, 283
Somerset Club, Boston, 19, 87, 154, 220, 238; JPM’s membership in, 116
Southern Pines, N.C., 86, 242, 298
Spee Club, Harvard, 42–44, 49
Sphinx Club, Harvard, 44
Sports Illustrated, 283, 284, 292
Stark, Ray, 263
Steegmuller, Francis, translation of Madame Bovary, 179–80
Stein, Gertrude, 66
Stevens, George, 128; letter from Brandt, 129–30
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 179; Treasure Island, 223
Stockbridge, Mass.: Christina Marquand’s wedding, 238; Sedgwick House, 38–39, 60, 79, 239, 299
Stopover: Tokyo, 270–73; moving picture, 272
Streeter, Edward, 188, 245, 248, 295–96; advises JPM on Point of No Return, 201–3, 213; Daily Except Sunday, 201; Dere Mabel, 201; Father of the Bride, 203
Stribling, T. S., The Store, Pulitzer Prize, 151
Stuart, R. Douglas, Jr., 134
Sulzberger, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hays, 186
“Sun, Sea, and Sand,” 189
Swanberg, W. A., Jim Fiske, 180
Swanson, Gloria, 241
Sweeting, Captain, of Windrift, 221
Tacitus, 185
Tarkington, Booth, 189–90
Think Fast, Mr. Moto, 129
Thirty Years, 194, 245, 258–59
Thomas, Norman, 134
Thompson, Dorothy, 183
Thompson, J. Walter, advertising agency, 56, 58, 59
Thoreau, Henry David, 38, 75, 185
Thornhill, Arthur, Sr., 238
Thucydides, 185
Thurber, James, 180
Time, 212, 219
Timothy Dexter, Revisited, 293, 294
Top Secret Affair (film version of Melville Goodwin, U.S.A.), 265
Treasure Island, Bahamas, 220–26, 235
Tuckerman, Bayard, 219
Tuckerman, Mr. and Mrs. John, 243
Tufts, James W., 241
Tunney, Gene, story of Hemingway, 222
Twain, Mark, JPM mistaken for, 111
Twentieth Century-Fox, 272
The Unspeakable Gentleman, 59–60, 293
Vassar College, 104
Versailles, 68; JPM and Carol in, 268–70
Vesle River, 55
Vidor, King, 154–57; in Aspen, 157; in Boston, 154–55
Villa, Pancho, 53
Wagner, Robert, 272
Walden Pond, 75–76, 246
Warning Hill, 63, 89
Warren, Robert Penn, 179
Washington, D.C., 161; Pentagon, 230–31
Watkins, Ann, 76
Weeks, Edward, 263; JPM’s attitude toward, 124; The Open Heart, 97n
Welch, Richard E., 238
Welch & Forbes, 148, 149
Wells (Conney Fiske’s uncle), 98
West, Benjamin, 297
West Point graduates, 231
Weston, Mass., 75, 79
Wharton, Edith, 88
White, Andy, 181
White, E. B., 233, 235
White, William Allen, 177; Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, 135
Whitehill, Walter Muir, 155
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 37, 125
Whyte, William H., The Organization Man, 218
Wickford Point, 118–26, 141, 149, 151, 168, 196, 292; advertisement and controversy with Saturday Evening Post, 132–33; Curzon’s Mill in, 37, 119; Hale family in, 119–25, 129–30, 204, 206–7, 266–68; JPM in, as narrator, 123–25; JPM’s article on identification of characters, 125; motion picture proposed, 266–68; sales, 131–32; serialization, 131–33, 159
Williams, Alexander, 287
Williamsburg, Va., 112
Wilmington, Del., 32, 45, 55
Wilson, Sloan, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, 218
Windrift, yawl, 221, 226
Wister, Owen, 43
Wolfe, Thomas, 218, 244
Woman’s Home Companion, 228
Women and Thomas Harrow, 24, 291
Wood, Grant, “Parson Weems’ Fable,” 111
Wood, Meredith, 255, 288
Wood, Gen. Robert E., 135
Woollcott, Alexander, 182
World War I: Gardiner Fiske in, 88; JPM’s service in, 54–55, 162–63
World War II, 160; JPM in, 161–63, 167; JPM’s novels of, 195–200; Pearl Harbor attack, 138
Wouk, Herman, The Caine Mutiny, 180
Yale, 33; honorary degree for JPM, 247; JPM’s manuscripts in library, 151
The Yearling (film), 156
Young, Robert, 156
Zanuck, Darryl, 264
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