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11. DEALS
| Aging whiskey: Newman, p. 133n. | |
| Price of Rossville distillery: ibid., p. 134. | |
| The naming of Seven Crown: Dr. Isaac Levine (son of Calman Levine) to author. | |
| “I always like to have money”: ibid. | |
244n. | “Very Own”: Newman, p. 107n. |
| Men of Distinction: ibid., p. 137n. | |
| Morgenthau and the tax bill: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, p. 80; Newman, p. 64. | |
| The Rosenstiel stories: Cooney, pp. 225â227. | |
| Bronfman-Rosenstiel partnership: Newman, p. 134. | |
| Nicknames: Cooney, p. 226; Robert Gould to author. | |
| Car-playing among industry rivals: Frances Howard Goldwyn to author; similarly, Helen Gould to author. | |
| Seagram brands displayed: Newman, p. 39. | |
| The Julius Kessler story: Dr. Isaac Levine to author. | |
| “But you're an old man”: Newman, p. 157. | |
| “This is so much bullshit”: ibid., p. 143. | |
| Rose Stokes's last days, funeral: New York Times , June 21, 1933. | |
| Rose's memorial service: ibid., July 25, 1933. |
12. WAR
| Joseph P. Kennedy story: Hecht, p. 520. | |
| Kennedy and RKO: Lyons, pp. 143â144; Dreher, pp. 111â112. | |
| “Sarnoff's grand design”: Lyons, p. 143. | |
| “A banker?”: Adolph Zukor to author. | |
| Kennedy stories: Frances Howard Goldwyn (Mrs. Samuel) to author. | |
| “tough customer”: Samuel Goldwyn files. | |
| “de-Semitization”: Howe, p. 567. | |
| “No writers”: Frances Goldwyn to author. | |
| Hecht's involvement with Bergson et al.: Hecht, pp. 529, 532, 536. | |
| Jewish army fund-raising: ibid., pp. 538â543; also New York Times, Feb. 19, 1983. | |
| “I called on David”: Hecht, p. 543. | |
| “accept with pleasure”: Frances Goldwyn to author. | |
| “We're here to contribute”: Hecht, p. 543 | |
| “an investigation of propaganda”: New York Times , Aug. 19, 1941. | |
| “The Zionists ⦠turning in my grave”: Bergson quoted in New York Times , Feb. 19, 1983. | |
| Impressions of Hillcrest Country Club: author's. | |
| “in this business”: Sam Marx to author. | |
| “You will probably think it strange”: Goldwyn files. | |
| “Please stop crying”: ibid. | |
| Lansky and Jewish refugees: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, p. 297. | |
| Bronfman's philanthropy, Newman, p. 46. | |
| Goldwyn and Danny Kaye: Frances Goldwyn to author. | |
| “In dealing with my husband”: ibid. | |
| “The Vanishing Jew”: Henry Popkin in Commentary , July, 1952. pp. 46, 51. | |
| “This originates not in hate”: ibid., p. 46. |
13. AT LAST, A HOMELAND
| Siegel in Hollywood: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, p. 176. | |
| Plans for Las Vegas: ibid., p. 225. | |
| Cohen's cleanliness: Cohen, pp. 255â256. | |
| “not good for anyone's image”: ibid., p. 1. | |
| “a three-card Monte dealer”: ibid., p. 234. | |
| “We were insured”: ibid., p. 45. | |
| “Knockin' their own proposition”: Hecht, p. 610. | |
| “Who the hell is Ben Hecht”: Cohen, p. 89. | |
| “This guy got me so goddamn excited”: ibid., p. 91. | |
| “Jewish people”: ibid., p. 93. | |
| “America is our Zion”: Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk to author. | |
| “When one has ten million dollars”: Doris Lilly to author. | |
| Cohen's party: Cohen, p. 91. | |
| Lansky's helper on the docks: ibid., pp. 92â93: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, p. 296. | |
| Cohen's orders to kill British officers: Cohen, pp. 91â92. | |
| “To me, he was the greatest man”: ibid., p. 92. | |
| Figures on Jewish deaths: Siegel and Rheins, p. 153. | |
| “We had been talking”: Dalia Lamport to author. | |
| Apfelbaum family history: Anna Potok to author. | |
| “We loved it here”: ibid. |
14. TOUCHES OF CLASS
| “he's just a little old movie producer”: Frances Howard Goldwyn (Mrs. Samuel) to author. | |
| Madame Rubinstein's nomenclature: Patrick O'Higgins to author. | |
| Bronfman children's upbringing: Jack Clifford to author. | |
| No business outside Canada: Edgar M. Bronfman, “Name Your BrandâIn Any Market in the World,” Columbia Journal of World Business , vol. 4, no. 6 (Nov./Dec., 1969), p. 31. | |
| “How long do you think”: Newman, p. 65. | |
| Mayer's life-style: Gail and Howard Strickling to author. | |
| Goldwyn's misspellings: Goldwyn files. | |
| Goldwyn's malapropisms: Frances Goldwyn to author. | |
| “Find out how many stars”: ibid. | |
| “How long have you and I”: Frances Goldwyn to author. | |
| “A kind of love song”: ibid. | |
296n. | Parsons's column: International Celebrity Register (New York: Celebrity Register Ltd., 1959), p. 573. |
| Gloversville story: ibid. | |
| Lansky / Las Vegas story: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, p. 226; Gosch and Hammer, p. 316. | |
| Siegel / Virginia Hill story: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, pp. 225, 237; Gosch and Hammer, p. 331. | |
| Siegel, Hill, and the Flamingo: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, pp. 226, 235â241; Gosch and Hammer, pp. 316â319, 329â331. | |
| “the situation”: Gosch and Hammer, p. 315. |
15. ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY
| German opposition to changes at Emanu-El, including quotes: Rabbi Ronald B. Sobel to author. | |
| The Sidney Weinberg story: Walter E. Sachs to author. | |
| The Harmonic Club story: Rabbi Sobel to author. | |
| David Sarnoff's house: author's impressions. | |
| “I believe that television”: Lyons, p. 207. | |
| “Think of your family”: ibid., pp. 207â208. | |
| “If we let our imagination”: ibid., p. 208. | |
| RCA Pavilion: ibid., p. 216. | |
| “Good evening”: ibid., p. 275. | |
| “Father of American Television”: ibid., p. 268. | |
| “I don't think this television thing”: Frances Howard Goldwyn (Mrs. Samuel) to author. | |
| Five Towns and Woodmere Academy: Beverley and Allen Gasner and Sue Kaufman Barondess to author. | |
| “a golden ghetto”: Sue Kaufman Barondess to author. | |
| “Be civil”: Beverley Gasner to author. | |
| “And your grandfather and I worked so hard”: ibid. |
16. CROWN PRINCES
| The obituary: New York Times , Sept. 1, 1967. | |
| The Calman Levine story: Dr. Isaac Levine (Calman's son) to author. | |
| “WE WHO MAKE” : Newman, p. 137. | |
| The Willkie dispute: Dr. Isaac Levine to author. | |
| “ I am company policy”: ibid. | |
| “You go to my enemy”: ibid. | |
| “This call is not welcome”: ibid. | |
| “But Father, don't you know”: Newman, p. 174. | |
| “But those Bronfmans”: Mrs. Arthur Lehman to author. | |
| “the son of that Russian”: Mrs. J. L. Loeb to author. | |
333n. | Robert Sarnoff's prediction: International Celebrity Register (New York: Celebrity Register Ltd., 1959), p. 666. |
| “Find Marshall”: Newman, p. 28. | |
| “Sam was sitting”: ibid. | |
| “My God!”: Sam Man to author. | |
| “See him”: Newman, p. 35. | |
| Rubinstein will: O'Higgins, pp. 279â280, 288, 293. | |
| Bronfman/ Holiday story: author's recollection. | |
| “If you're saying”: Newman, p. 183. | |
| “In real estate”: Robert Gould to author. | |
| “We had a code of ethics”: Cohen, p. 183. | |
| “Where are they going”: Mrs. Meyer Lansky to author. | |
| Lansky's family life: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, pp. 256, 230â231, 284â285. | |
| “Don't you know”: ibid., pp. 230â231. |
17. WITCH-HUNTING
| “pervasive shaper of American thought”: James Trager, The People's Chronology (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979), p. 999. | |
| Hellman's income: Siegel and Rheins, p. 447. | |
| “Let's take a look”: ibid., p. 449. | |
| Dalton Trumbo story: Trager, p. 999. | |
| “always had something to say”: Siegel and Rheins, p. 450. | |
| Zero Mostel story: ibid., p. 451. | |
| John Garfield story: ibid., pp. 453â454. | |
| Phillip Loeb story: ibid., pp. 454â457. | |
| “Modern girls are conscious”: New Yorker , Aug. 10, 1925. | |
| “As to being Jewish”: Dorothy Schiff, quoted to author by John Schiff. | |
| “After all”: Frances Howard Goldwyn to author. | |
| Lettice Stokes on Rose Pastor Mrs. Stokes to author. |
18. PEOPLE WHO ARE SOLID
| “I was born”: Jack Rosenthal to author. | |
| Lansky's harassment by U.S. officials: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, pp. 284â285. | |
| “bad tuning ⦠because of the Kefauver Report”: ibid., p. 288. | |
| Sandra Lansky story, including quote: ibid., pp. 290â291. | |
| “You see, Richard had been drinking”: ibid., p. 322. | |
| Lansky as bargaining chip: ibid., pp. 313â314. | |
| “That's life”: quoted in New York Times . Jan. 16, 1983. | |
| “Bugsy and I”: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, p. 324. | |
| “Most of what they wrote about him”: Mrs. Meyer Lansky to author. | |
| Phyllis Bronfman story: Newman, pp. 165â166. | |
| “make this building”: ibid., p. 166. | |
| “This building”: ibid., p. 167. | |
| Atlantic Acceptance bankruptcy: ibid., p. 164. | |
| Edgar's college escapade: author's recollection. | |
| Linen asked to intercede: Newman, p. 159. | |
| Sam's opposition to divorce: John L. Loeb, Jr., to author. | |
| “I've set it up”: Newman, p. 21. | |
| Edgar's premarital settlement: ibid., p. 189. | |
| “I told Edgar ⦠after the marriage”: ibid. | |
| “I hate to be taken”: ibid., p. 190. | |
| Sam II kidnapping, including quotes: ibid., pp. 190â191. | |
| “Tell me, Edgar”: ibid., p. 187. | |
| Conoco takeover story: People , Dec. 28, 1982âJan. 4, 1983, pp. 62â63. | |
| “To turn a hundred dollars”: Newman, p. 19. | |
| “What would my father”: People , Dec. 28, 1982âJan. 4, 1983, p. 63. |