64 “Thereafter . . . stop again”: Durr and Barnard,
Outside the Magic Circle
, 139.
66 “Madame, use my hat if you need it”: Ibid.
66 “by this time Decca was looking very glamorous and beautiful”: Durr, interview,
Portrait of a Muckraker
.
66 “I went up to an official looking”: JM to ER, 25 July 1940, in
Decca
, ed. Sussman, 51.
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69 “among other new features”: “Liner’s Maiden Voyage to Be Stag Party,”
Washington Post
, 27 July 1940.
70 “‘Decca Method,’ which she invented herself”: Dudley Harmon, “War Means Separation for Esmond Romillys,”
Washington Post
, 27 July 1940.
70 “colossally useful”: JM to ER, 26 July 1940, in
Decca
, ed. Sussman, 54.
70 “absolute riot of anti-New Dealism”: JM to ER, 29 June 1940, in
Decca
, ed. Sussman, 55.
70 “about 9:30 . . . reached out”: Ibid.
71 “only cost 58 cents for 50 words”: JM to ER, 25 July 1940, in
Decca
, ed. Sussman, 53.
71 “until you get over being sick”: Durr and Barnard,
Outside the Magic Circle
, 139.
72 “My plans are completely flexible”: JM to ER, 25 July 1940, in
Decca
, ed. Sussman, 53.
72 “learned how to make a bed”: Durr, interview,
Portrait of a Muckraker
.
72 “debunking the aristocratic”: JM to ER, 6 August 1940, OSU.
72 “burn her hands”: JM to ER, [undated] September 1940, OSU.
73 “Weinbergering”: JM to ER, 2 August 1940, OSU.
73 “American glamour girl . . . all
so
awful”: JM to ER, 8 September 1940, in
Decca
, ed. Sussman, 63-64.
73 “bony”: Durr and Barnard,
Outside the Magic Circle
, 151.
73 “Decca, you have simply”: Ann Durr Lyons, interview by author, February 2010.
74 “the most beautiful person . . . a wicked sting: Marge Frantz, interview by author, November 2005.
74 “fresh curried shrimp”: JM to ER, September 1940, OSU.
75 “it might save postage”: JM to ER, 10 January 1941, OSU.
75 “bourgeois philistine . . . shirts, socks and ties”: Straight,
After Long Silence
, 141.
75 “There is one thing you can say”: Ibid.
75 “wanted an intense Christmas”: Durr, interview,
Portrait of a Muckraker
.
76 “two people more completely in love”: Ibid.
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77 “long dead time when”: GR,
Privileged Nightmare
, 88.
77 “Bloomsbury lodging house keeper”: JM to ER, late January 1941, OSU.
78 “a quantity of stout brown paper”: JM,
AWOB
, 5.
78 “Absolutely not”: JM,
AWOB
, 5.
78 “I hated that idea . . . highly touted”: JM,
AWOB
, 5.
78 “At each visit, for which he charged”: JM,
AWOB
, 5.
79 “all v. pretty rather like”: JM to ER, 12 February 1941, OSU.
79 “The anesthetic given there”: JM,
AWOB
, 5-6.
80 “Are you any relation of Hitler’s friend?” JM to ER, 12 February 1941, OSU.
80 “Was her baby born with teeth?” Sussman,
Decca
, 72n.
80 “I was just thinking”: JM to ER, 13 February 1941, in
Decca
, ed. Sussman, 73.
80 “I became increasingly restive”: JM,
AFOC
, 27.
81 “How extremely thoughtful”: JM to ER, early March 1941, in
Decca
, ed. Sussman, 76.
81 “Anne Constancia . . . change it we can”: JM to ER, [2 March 1941?], OSU.
83 “Darling Muv . . . I don’t like Canada at
all
”: JM to Muv, 9 April 1941, OSU.
84 “sweet refugees”: Mosley,
Love from Nancy
, 104.
85 “The Durrs & most of the people”: JM to NM, 20 May 1941, in
Decca
, ed. Sussman, 79.
86 “I think Constancia”: NM to JM, 9 July 1941, in Mosley,
Love from Nancy
, 111.
86 “Up the Reds!” NM to Violet Hammersley, 12 July 1941, in Mosley,
Love from Nancy
, 113.
87 “a whole new ball game”: JM, interview,
Portrait of a Muckraker
.
87 “over-abundance of resources”: Ingram,
Rebel
, 218.
87 “misgivings about going on a raid”: Ibid., 217.
87 “None . . . shot down or not”: Ibid., 218.
87 “The unutterable blankness”: JM,
H & R
, 282.
88 “Once the Russians got into the war”: Fursland,
Jessica Mitford
, 132.
88 “I was so miserable”: JM to ER, 26 June 1941, OSU.
88 “my two main preoccupations . . . acquire some training”: JM,
AFOC
, 27.
89 “feel much more confident”: JM to ER, 26 June 1941, in
Decca
, ed. Sussman, 80.
89 “By the time I discovered”: JM,
AFOC
, 28.
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91 “I think it would be more difficult”: JM to ER, 1 August 1941, in
Decca
, ed. Sussman, 81.
91 “However the whole decision”: Ibid.
92 “Please don’t think”: ER to JM, 17 August 1941, OSU.
92 “The whole thing is awfully disappointing”: JM to ER, 16-19 August 1941, in
Decca
, ed. Sussman, 82.
93 “I am thinking of you … fascinating and interesting”: ER to JM, 22 September 1941, OSU.
93 “fascinating and interesting”: ER to JM, 22 September 1941, OSU.
94 “This is said to be the best school”: JM to ER, 14 September 1941, in
Decca
, ed. Sussman, 86-87.
94 “I will never be able . . . swiftness of trip”: ER to JM, 22 September 1941, OSU.
94 “if she really frightfully wanted to and it was possible”: ER to JM, 9 October 1941, OSU.
94 “on a bomber”: JM to ER, 4 October 1941, OSU.
94 “his only political motive”: Toynbee,
Friends Apart
, 163.
95 “He told me how once”: Ibid.
95 “Is the take off”: ER to JM, 5 October 1941, OSU.
95 “the pilot hears the welcoming phrase”: Ibid.
96 “to be all undecided”: JM to ER, 29 October 1941, OSU.
96 “I am pretty well settled now”: ER to JM, 11 November 1941, OSU.
96 “I sent you a cable last night”: JM to ER, 9 November 1941, OSU.
97 “can see that you will be”: ER to JM, 11 November 1941, OSU.
97 “the whole thing is utterly bleak and pointless”: Ingram,
Rebel
, 232.
97 “LEAVING FRIDAY SO TERRIFICALLY”: JM to ER, 1 December 1941, in
Decca
, ed. Sussman, 92.
98 “REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT”: Ingram,
Rebel
, 232-233.
98 “absolutely desolate”: Durr and Barnard,
Outside the Magic Circle
, 140.
98 “It will take more than two men ”: Lovell,
The Sisters
, 104.
99 “gracious as she always was”: Straight,
After Long Silence
, 141.
99 “He said that his heart bled”: Ibid., 166.
99 “Churchill had got in touch”: Durr and Barnard,
Outside the Magic Circle
, 141.
99 “blood money”: Sussman,
Decca
, 49.
99 “I would go in there and she would say”: Durr and Barnard,
Outside the Magic Circle
, 141.
99 “filthy fascist family”: Durr, interview,
Portrait of a Muckraker
.
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102 “He disgraced himself”: RT interview with Robert G. Larsen in 1988-1989 in
Robert E. Treuhaft: Left Wing Political Activist and Progressive Leader in the Berkeley Co-op: Oral History Project
, Berkeley Historical Society, 1989, 12.
103 “Bob, the fun-loving Rover Boy”: Ibid., 16.
103 “only in a peripheral way”: Ibid., 12.
103 “the only people who were deeply involved”: Ibid., 12.
104 “these beautiful prima ballerinas”: Ibid., 20.
106 “ban on pleasure driving”: JM,
AFOC
, 32.
106 “cruel category of sub-eligible typist”: JM,
AFOC
, 32.
106 “discovered a marvelous place”: JM,
AFOC
, 32.
107 “Paris was then occupied”: JM,
AFOC
, 30.
107 “marvelously funny”: JM,
AFOC
, 33.
107 “slanting, twinkling black eyes”: JM,
AFOC
, 33.
107 “She would pick up a glass”: RT and Larsen,
Robert E. Treuhaft
, 27.
108 “such frugality ”: Ibid., 27.
108 “Drink a drink to dauntless Decca”: JM,
AFOC
, 33.
108 “permanent home”: JM to Muv, 31 October 1942, in
Decca
, ed. Sussman, 93.
109 “Dear Aranka, You will be pleased”: RT to Aranka Treuhaft, 28 December 1942, OSU.
109 “You can’t imagine how”: JM to Muv, 24 November 1942, in
Decca
, ed. Sussman, 95.
110 “one of those do-it-yourself”: JM,
AFOC
, 39.
110 “Dear Joyce, please come to Washington”: JM,
AFOC
, 39.
110 “pleased surprise . . . hopeless muddle”: JM,
AFOC
, 40.
110 “She claims that she left Washington”: RT and Larsen,
Robert E. Treuhaft
, 28.
110 “as far away as possible”: JM,
AFOC
, 40.
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111 “I didn’t expect to see matched . . . shopping bags”: JM,
AFOC
, 42.
115 “I’m getting to like Frisco”: JM to Muv, 16 March 1943, OSU.
115 My gratitude to Kevin Starr for drawing the waterfront so beautifully in
Embattled Dreams, California in War and Peace, 1940-1950
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
115 “Gee Decc, Don’t be sick anymore” RT to JM, 24 March 1943, OSU.
115 “only source of real pleasure and sustenance”: JM,
AFOC
, 45.
115 “Poor Mrs. Romilly”: JM,
AFOC
, 51.
115 “ruined . . . took advantage of me”: JM,
AFOC
, 46.
116 “The office here”: JM to Muv, 16 March 1943, OSU.
116 “inflation down”: RT and Larsen,
Robert E. Treuhaft
, 36.
117 “She’d been restless and come … too soon”: Doris (Dobby) Brin Walker, interview with author, August 2007.
117 “I feel that in my job here”: JM to Muv, 28 June 1943, in
Decca
, ed. Sussman, 99.
117 “real connection”: RT and Larsen,
Robert E. Treuhaft
, 12.
118 “marry you and move”: JM,
AFOC
, 52.
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120 “You will be v. surprised”: JM to Muv, 28 June 1943, in
Decca
, ed. Sussman, 111.
120 “would probably have”: JM to Muv, 21 July 1943, in
Decca
, ed. Sussman, 112.
121 “some errands”: JM,
AFOC
, 57.
121 “profuse apologies”: JM,
AFOC
, 57.
122 “Why do you want to become a citizen?” JM,
AFOC
, 63.
122 “endearingly childish”: JM, interview,
Portrait of a Muckraker
.
122 “bizarre . . . a joke”: Ibid.
122 “So I can join the Communist Party”: JM,
AFOC
, 63.
122 “too much levity toward the Left”: Pele deLappe, interview by author, October 2008.
123 “pop the question”: JM,
AFOC
, 63.
123 “Would you be interested in joining the Communist Party?” Doris (Dobby) Brin Walker, interview by author, August 2007.
123 “We thought you’d never ask”: JM,
AFOC
, 63.
123 “It was indeed a matter of conform or get out”: JM,
AFOC
, 67.
124 “bores and misfits in our organization”: JM,
AFOC
, 66.
124 “enchanted by the flesh and blood Communists”: JM,
AFOC
, 66.
124 “conversion to Communism was not”: JM,
AFOC
, 16.
124 “We didn’t do anything terribly subversive”: RT and Larsen,
Robert E. Treuhaft
, 30.
125 “dead tired from the round . . . three in the morning”: JM,
AFOC
, 71.
126 “locked the doors, pulled down the blinds”: JM,
AFOC
, 59.
126 “Fancy Little D being a beauty!” JM,
AFOC
, 33.
127 “Dear Cousin Winston”: JM to Churchill, 24 November 1943, in
Decca
, ed. Sussman, 114-115.
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131 “Upside,” said Viorst, “Bob had married”: Judith Viorst, e-mail to author, 27 February 2008.
131 “was rather put out when I married”: RT and Larsen,
Robert E. Treuhaft
, 12.
131 “demanded a lot from the people around her.”: Edith Treuhaft, interview by author, February 2008.
131 “
luftmensch
”: Ibid.
132 “so New York-ish”: Ibid.
132 “coveted prize of a lifetime”: JM,
AFOC
, 75
133 “a leggy female who”: deLappe,
A Passionate Journey
, 36.
133 “with more seriousness and concern”: Lerner,
Fireweed
, 264.
134 “had the luckiest childhood”: JM, interview, in
Introduction to Interview with Jessica Mitford
, ed. deLappe, San Francisco State University Labor Archives.
134 “raise hackles . . . she ever would”: Pele deLappe, interview by author, October 2006.
135 “Marvelous . . . for the delegates”: JM,
AFOC
, 96.
135 “busy, busy, busy”: JM,
AFOC
, 88.
135 “ticket sales . . . publicity”: JM,
AFOC
, 88.
135 “a general air of mystery”: JM,
AFOC
, 85.
135 “Petaluma”: JM,
AFOC
, 86.