Irrepressible (57 page)

Ginsberg, Allen

Gladstein, Grossman, Sawyer and Edises

Gladstein, Richard

Glasser, Abraham

Glossop, Honoria

Gold, Herb

Goldmark, Kathi Kamen

Gollancz Publishers

Gottlieb, Robert: on
A Fine Old Conflict
; as Decca’s editor; on Decca as muckraker; on Decca’s money

“Grace Darling,”

Grace Had an English Heart
(Mitford)

Graham, Katharine

Grande Hotel de Calvi

Grant, Joanne

Great Terror, second

Green, Buddy

Greenglass, David

Greenglass, Ruth

Greenwich Village

Grogan, Ed

Grossman, Aubrey

Grossman, Danny

Grossman, Hazel

Guerneville

Guinness, Bryan

Guinness, Catherine

Guinness, Jonathan

Guiton family

Gumbo (Albert), Judy

Haight-Ashbury

Hajos, Aranka.
See
Treuhaft, Aranka

Hall, Barbara

Hammett, Dashiell

Hampton, Fred

Harvard University

Hastings, Selena

Hawkins, Williametta

Hayden, Tom

Hellman, Lillian

Herman, Jan

Highlander Folk School in Tennessee

Hill, Derek

Hill, Frederick

Hill, Heywood

Hilliard, David

Hinckle III, Warren

Hiss, Alger

Hitler, Adolf: death of; Decca on killing; invades the Netherlands; learns of Decca’s elopement; Mitford tea with; Muv’s sympathy for; nonaggression pact with Stalin; Unity’s friendship with; Unity’s potential break with; as witness to Diana’s wedding

Hoffman, Abbie

Hollywood

Hollywood Ten

Holt, Patricia

Hons and Rebels
(Mitford): Nancy on publication of; title debate; writing of

Hoover, J. Edgar

Hopson, Louise

Horne, Ann Farrer

Hôtel Paradis

Houghton Mifflin

House Committee on Un-American Activities: activism against; the bar as terrorized by; on civic activism as Communist; Decca’s first impression of; jails writer Hammett; Jerry Rubin at; as making Decca American; mandate of; McCarthy era; Red Tide scare; sentences Hollywood Ten; subpoenas the Treuhafts

“Howl” (Ginsberg)

Hungary: Decca’s misimpressions of; Hungarians; Soviets crush uprising in; Treuhafts on socialism in

Hurok, Sol

immigrants, U.S.: Aranka as; assimilation; Bob as educated by; Decca as; NY Jewish; Russian-Jewish, in Petaluma

Inch Kenneth: Decca sells; family reunion on; Farve on; last summer with Muv; loneliness of; memoir writing on; Muv and Farve on; as sisters’ inheritance; Treuhafts buy; Unity and Muv on

Independent Progressive Party

Ingram, Kevin

Ingram, William

inheritance: Decca as banned from Redesdale; Inch Kenneth; from Nellie

Internal Security Division

International Brigades

Izzy Gomez’s

Jackson, Derek

Jackson, Mississippi

Japanese internment

Jeanette Rankin Brigade

Jeffers, Robinson

jobs: Civil Rights Congress (CRC); glamour of subversive; ideology of employment; jewelry sales in Miami; lecture tour idea; market researcher; Meyer commissions; OPA inspector; performing career; professorial; and relational power balance; secretary;
Washington Post
article/ad for; Weinberger’s dress shop;
see also
activism; journalism

Johnson, Diane

Johnson, Lyndon

Johnson, Samuel

journalism: abortion research; apprenticeship in; on the civil rights movement; CRC work; Decca’s advice on; Dr. Spock trial coverage; exposing Famous Writers School con; fame for; on “fat farms,” ; as a goal; honing ability for; interviews, learning to take; McGee case reports; Meyer commissions on Montgomery riots; muckraking; objectivity in;
People’s Daily World
application; personal style; porn industry; radical; “St. Peter, Don’t You Call Me,” tour circuit; “Trial by Headline”;
see also
writing

Joyce, James

Julia.
See
Romilly, Julia

Kahn, Barbara

Kahn, Ephraim

Kahn, Kathy

Kempton, Murray

Kennedy, John F.

Kennedy, Robert

Kesey, Ken

KGB spy

Khrushchev

Kim, Jungmin

Kind and Usual Punishment
(Mitford)

King Jr., Reverend Martin Luther

Kliot, Al

Knopf

Koko (dog)

Kopkind, Andrew

Krieger, Wilbur M.

Kubrick, Stanley

Ku Klux Klan

Kunstler, William

labor activism: Congress of Industrial Organizations; in the Durr household; education; by Joe Gelders

Landauer, Ida

Lang, Dan

Lapin, Adam

Lapin, Eva

Lapin, Mark

Lasch, Christopher

Ledbetter, Huddie William (Leadbelly)

Leftists: authors; Bloomsbury meeting-place for; Decca’s written spoofing of; Esmond and Decca as; ideological disputes; Marge Gelders; new generation of; as pro-price control; “reactionary” as used by

Legg, Sheila

Lenin

Leonard, Karen

Lerner, Gerda

Lessing, Doris

Lewis, John

Lifeitselfmanship; or, How to Become a Precisely-Because Man: An Investigation into Current L (or Left-Wing) Usage
(Mitford)

Linton-on-Ouse

Livingston, Mary Walton

Lomax, Alan

Lorca, Federico García

Los Angeles

Lothian, Lord

Lottie

The Loved One
(Waugh)

Love in a Cold Climate
(Nancy Mitford)

Lovell, Mary

loyalty oath, professor’s

Loyalty Order

MacGibbon, James

Maine Chance

marijuana

marriage, to Bob: Aranka on; Bob’s affair; child rearing; courtship; Decca looks back on; family parties; his pursuit of her West; home life; intimacy of; jealousy; odes to her; proposal; retirement years; wedding ceremony

marriage, to Esmond: basis of; Decca as soldier’s wife; deepening intimacy in; equality in; lack of money; long-distance strains; Martha’s Vineyard vacation; Virginia Durr on; wedding ceremony

Martha’s Vineyard

Maverick, Maury

May Day

Mayflower Hotel

McCarran Act

McCarthy, Joseph Raymond

McClure, Jane

McClure, Michael

McDew, Charles

McGee, Rosalee

McGee, Willie

medical system: Hillary Clinton’s reform efforts; obstetrics; pee-in activism; psychiatry; public wards

memorial services, for Decca

Menemsha Inn

Meyer, Agnes

Meyer, Eugene: as a big shot; commissions by; Decca on; finds work for Decca; gold mining success

Meyer, Kay

Miami

military service: avoiding the draft; by black soldiers; by the Mitford family; personnel deployment; Romilly, Esmond; Treuhaft as unfit for

Misdeal
(Gerstein)

Mitford (Cavendish), Deborah “Debo” (Dowager Duchess of Devonshire): as British nobility; censors Nancy’s estate; curiosity about Decca’s memoir; daughter Emma; Decca’s relationship to lifestyle marriage to Cavendish; scrapbook flap; sense of humor; Society of Hons; visits Oakland

Mitford, David “Farve” (Lord Redesdale): crackpot schemes; cuts Decca from the will; death of; Decca’s pain about; on Decca’s running away; Inch Kenneth home; Muv and Decca discuss; personality of; schism with Decca; splits with Muv over politics; teasing of; writes at Nicky’s birth

Mitford, Jessica Lucy Freeman “Decca”: on Adolph Hitler;
The American Way of Birth
.
See The American Way of Birth
;
The American Way of Death
.
See The American Way of Death
; antifascism of; appearance of; attempted rape of; Black Panthers benefit; children of.
See
pregnancies; children by name; citizenship application; as Communist Party member; CRC work;
death of; drinking habit; education of;
Faces of Philip
; family.
See
family relationships, Mitford; finances.
See
inheritance; money; fondness for the U.S.; home life, childhood;
Hons and Rebels
; hospital pee-in; housekeeping ability; housing segregation protest; vs. the HUAC; illnesses of on Inch Kenneth; jealousy of; jiggery pokery (theft);
Kind and Usual Punishmen
;
Lifeitselfmanship
; McGee activism; at Montgomery riots; as a muckraker; on New Dealers; as Oakland resident;
People’s Daily World
fundraiser; performing career; personality of;
Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking
; police brutality activism; politics, Mitford family; politics, personal.
See
politics, Decca’s; resists fingerprinting; Rotherhithe period;
SF Chronicle
fundraiser; on snobbery; Tom Mooney School fundraiser; travel restrictions on; weds Bob;
see also
marriage, to Bob; weds Esmond;
see also
marriage, to Esmond; work ethic; work of.
See
jobs; journalism; writing

Mitfordmania

Mitford (Mosley), Diana: appearance; claim of Tom as fascist; Decca denounces; Decca’s dislike of; Decca’s refusal to reunite with; Decca’s reunion with; imprisoning of; at May Day 1938; release from prison; weds Mosley

Mitford, Nancy: Aranka’s similarities with; death of; Debo censors letters of; dislike for Esmond; on Farve; on
Hons and Rebels
; illness of; informs on Diana; lover Palewski; personality; relationship with Decca; relationship with her mother; response to
Lifeitselfmanship
; reunion with Decca; teasing by; wartime activities; as a writer; writing success

Mitford (Jackson), Pam “Woman”, care for Diana’s sons; divorce; domesticity of; as a farmer; in the scrapbook flap; travel

Mitford, Sydney “Muv” Bowles (Lady Redesdale): assists Treuhaft family visit; as caregiver to Unity; death of; Decca discloses Bob to; on Decca’s elopement; Decca’s last summer with; on Decca’s memoir; disallows school; on the family reunion; on Inch Kenneth donation; informed of Nicky’s death; as mother of seven; nickname; Redesdale inheritance; reunion photo; savings account for Decca; split with Farve over politics; visits California; wartime updates to Decca

Mitford, Tom: death of; fascist rumor about; military service; as only son; welcomed at Rotherhithe

Mitford, Unity “Boud”: brain damage of; death of; Decca’s concern for; on Esmond; fascist activism; friendship with Hitler; loneliness of; at May Day 1938; Muv caregives for; personality; relationship with Decca; secret meetings with; suicide attempt; updates Decca on Hitler

Modotti, Tina

money: American spending habits; Decca on; Decca’s frugality; end-of-life plans; from Esmond’s copywriting job; as independence; inheriting.
See
inheritance; need for, in NY; post-HUAC hearing; Rotherhithe electrical bill; running away accounts; savings; trust fund from Muv

Montgomery, Alabama

Mosley, Charlotte

Mosley, Diana.
See
Mitford (Mosley), Diana

Mosley, Oswald: Decca denounces; Decca on; as Diana’s husband; imprisoning of; Nancy on Tom’s relationship to; release from prison; vs. Romilly

Mount Kisco

mourning: Esmond; Julia; Nicky

muckraking journalism

Munich Pact

Murdoch, Steve

music, Cuban

Muv.
See
Mitford, Sydney “Muv” Bowles (Lady Redesdale)

NAACP

Nancy.
See
Mitford, Nancy

National Democratic Committee, Women’s Division

National Lawyers Guild

National Selected Morticians

National Student Association

Native Son
(Wright)

Nevile, Peter

New Dealers: cause parties; counter-sentiment; D.C. community; Decca’s appreciation of; as un-American

Newson, Jerry

Newton, Huey P.

New Utrecht High School

New York: commissioned articles about; Decca on residents of; emigration to; Greenwich Village move; introduction letters for; Jewish immigrant community

nicknames: of Bob Treuhaft; Boud (Unity); Decca (Jessica); Dinky (Constancia); Dobby (Doris); for fellow activists; for Nellie Romilly; for Nicky; single-word; Woman (Pam)

Nicky.
See
Treuhaft, Nicholas “Nicky”

Nixon-Mundt bill

Noblesse Oblige
(Nancy Mitford)

nuclear secrets

Oakland: Black Panthers in; Decca as news in; Decca on; Muv on; police brutality; political climate; Treuhaft frugality in; Treuhafts move to

Oakland Seven