The Late John Marquand (47 page)

Keyes, Frances Parkinson,
23–24

Kidder, Peabody & Company,
78

Knickerbocker Club, New York,
265
,
293

Korean War,
227

Kramer, Stanley,
264

Ladies' Home Journal
,
60
,
121
,
123
,
129
,
285
;
Melville Goodwin, U.S.A
. as serial,
228
,
232–33
,
263
;
Sincerely, Willis Wayde
as serial,
260–61
;
Women and Thomas Harrow
as serial,
288

Lake Como,
268
,
269

Lamarr, Hedy,
156

Lamson, Peggy,
297–98

Lamson, Roy,
297–98

Larsen, Roy,
283

Last Laugh, Mr. Moto
(or
Mercator Island)
,
161

The Late George Apley
,
92–100
,
106
,
109
,
110
,
111
,
130
,
142
,
151
,
168
,
182
,
238
; error on Athenaeum,
155
; Harvard asks for manuscript,
150–51
; Horatio Willing as narrator,
92–95
; McIntyre's correspondence with JPM on,
97
; Mary Monahan episode,
93–95
,
97
,
99
; motion picture,
99
,
199–200
,
263
; in
North of Grand Central
,
183
; O'Reilly episode and lawsuit,
100–1
,
122
,
125
,
140–41
; plans for,
81
,
90
; play,
99
,
164
,
165
,
187–88
; on Porcellian Club,
43
; publication, reactions to,
98–99
; Pulitzer Prize,
99
,
131
,
134
; sales,
131
; setting,
19
; writing, style and form,
92–93

Lawrence, D. H.,
178

Lawrence, Gertrude,
107

Lawrence Bishop William,
88

Lewis, Sinclair,
74
,
125
;
Arrowsmith
, (motion picture),
182
;
Babbitt
,
144–45
; JPM with,
183
;
Main Street
,
182
; Mayes and,
189

Lewis, Mrs. Sinclair (Dorothy Thompson),
183

Lexington, Mass.,
75

Life
,
206
,
209

Life at Happy Knoll
,
283–85

Lindbergh, Charles A.,
166
,
167
,
186
; in America First Committee,
135
,
136
; at Treasure Island,
221
,
223

Lindbergh, Mrs. Charles A. (Anne Morrow),
165–66
,
186
; at Treasure Island,
223

Lineth (servant at Treasure Island),
221

Little Boar's Head, N.H.,
32

Little, Brown & Company,
63
,
133
,
161
,
183
,
185
,
197
,
230
,
245
,
258
,
268
,
287
,
293
; and
H. M. Pulham, Esquire
,
149
; joint copyright agreement,
149
,
185
; JPM proposes himself as director,
238
; end
The Late George Apley
,
96–98
,
100
; O'Reilly lawsuit settled,
141
; and So
Little Time
,
168
,
171–73
;
Wickford Point
, advertisement,
133

London: Brown's Hotel,
87
; Claridge's Hotel,
211
,
270
; JPM and Carol in,
270–72

Long, Ray,
59
,
79

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth,
125

Lord Timothy Dexter of Newburyport, Mass
.,
286–87

Lorimer, George Horace,
58
,
59
,
79
,
98
,
188
,
194
,
272
; in Tarkington's story,
189–90

Lorre, Peter,
90

Loveman, Amy,
186
,
255

Lowell, James Russell,
168

Luce, Clare Boothe,
Pilot's Wife
,
157

MacArthur, Gen. Douglas,
229

McCall's
,
149

McIntyre, Alfred,
96–98
,
115
,
121–22
,
134
,
149
,
160
,
195
,
197
,
200
,
230
; JPM's correspondence with, on
The Late George Apley
,
97
;
Saturday Evening Post
offended by advertisement,
133–34
; and
So Little Time
,
168
,
172
,
173
; and
Wickford Point
,
131–33

McIntyre, Helen,
115

McWilliams, Joe,
135

Madame Bovary
(Flaubert),
180

Maine, University of,
247

Malquinn, Miss (nurse),
18

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.,
99

Markel, Lester,
189

Marquand, Adelaide Ferry Hooker (JPM's second wife),
27
,
102–7
,
126–27
,
139
,
162
,
163
,
199
,
220
,
241
,
246
,
265
,
288
; in America First Committee,
134–36
,
166
,
242
; in Aspen,
20
,
154
,
252
; in
B. F.'s Daughter
,
198
; buys houses,
17–19
,
21–24
,
127
,
154
,
156–57
; character,
20–22
,
104–6
; children born,
135
,
161
,
171
; Christina compared with,
106
,
110
; collaboration in JPM's writing,
115
,
148–49
,
160
,
171
,
184–85
,
282
; and Conney Fiske,
226
,
242
; Curzon's Mill estate and lawsuit,
210
; death,
298
; divorce,
277–79
; drinking habits,
152
,
242
; engagement and wedding,
105–7
; European trip with JPM,
211
; family connections,
17–18
,
103–4
; Hale family and,
126–27
,
208
,
209
,
212
; at Hobe Sound,
185–86
; interior decoration, taste in,
254–55
; JPM imitates her,
21–22
; after JPM's death,
297
; at JPM's funeral,
295
; and JPM's love affair with Carol Brandt,
145–46
,
158
,
174–77
,
183–85
,
242–45
; and Kaufmans,
165–67
; at Kent's Island,
247
,
279
; and Lindberghs,
165–67
; meets JPM,
102
; in
Melville Goodwin, U.S.A
.,
229
,
232
; in
Point of No Return
,
213
; relationship with JPM,
19–22
,
110–11
,
151–53
,
158
,
167
,
177–78
,
240
,
242–43
,
251
,
253–55
,
268
,
276
,
282–83
; in Reno,
277
; Reservoir Street house,
17–19
,
21–24
,
251
,
253–55
; at Rogue River,
156
; in
So Little Time
,
169
,
170
; at Treasure Island,
223–24
; in Washington,
161–62

Marquand, Christina (Tina, JPM's daughter),
81
,
162
,
247
,
252
; birth,
62
; illness,
63
; in JPM's will,
296–97
; wedding,
238

Marquand, Christina Sedgwick (JPM's first wife),
25
,
50–52
,
54
,
56
,
57
,
69
,
75
,
90
,
145
,
152
,
163
,
273
,
289
; Adelaide compared with,
106
,
110
; character,
50–51
,
61–64
; children born,
61
,
62
; children live with her,
162
; death,
251
; divorce,
81
,
105
; divorce settlement,
27–28
,
90
; in Europe,
60
,
67
; JPM ridicules her,
67–68
,
74
; JPM's courtship,
50–52
,
55–56
; marriage,
60
,
107
; married life,
61–64
,
67–68
,
74
,
78–81
,
103
; in
Point of No Return
,
214
; second marriage,
214
; separated from JPM,
68
; in
So Little Time
,
169

Marquand, Daniel,
30

Marquand, Elizabeth (Aunt Bessie),
31
,
35
,
37–39
,
40
,
205

Marquand, Elon Huntington Hooker (Lonnie, JPM's son),
171
,
247
; and JPM's death,
294

Marquand, Ferry (Blanche Ferry, JPM's daughter),
18
,
186
,
247
,
254
; birth,
134
; JPM's relationship with,
252
,
254

Marquand, John, Jr. (JPM's son),
64
,
81
,
162
,
247
; birth,
61
; in JPM's will,
296–97
;
The Second Happiest Day
,
268
; trip to Orient with JPM,
268–69
; in World War II,
163

Marquand, John Phillips (JPM)

in advertising,
56
,
58

in Africa,
293

appearance in youth,
46

birth,
32

as Book-of-the-Month Club judge,
177–82
,
199
,
219
,
255–57
,
286–88
,
293
; reviews quoted,
178–79
,
180–82
; verbal reviews,
255

Boston, attachment to,
18–19

childhood,
32–34

children, attitude toward,
162
,
252
,
278

in China,
79
,
102–3
,
108–10
,
269

Chinese soothsayer's advice to,
108–9

conversation: anecdotes, telling,
72–74
,
222
; book reviews,
255
; explosions of rage,
28
; imitations of people,
21
,
113
; manner and style of,
10
,
21
; parodies, verbal,
10
,
21

at Curzon's Mill,
35–41
,
59
,
73
,
77

Curzon's Mill and Hale family quarrel,
203–12
; lawsuit,
20
,
206–12

death and funeral,
294–95

drinking habits,
153

earnings,
28
,
79
,
106
,
173
,
187
,
219
,
228
,
245

family background,
30–31

golf,
240–41

at Harvard,
44–48
,
72
,
73

health, worries about,
220
,
245

heart attack,
18
,
20
,
248
,
251–53

in Hollywood,
154–57

honorary degrees: from Harvard,
247
; from other universities,
247

horse named for him,
219–20

income tax,
291

as lonely wanderer,
109
,
142

love affair with Carol Brandt,
139
,
145–47
,
153–54
,
158
,
163
,
167
,
174–77
,
183–85
,
242
,
246–47
,
257
,
279–81

marriage with Adelaide Hooker: engagement and wedding,
105–7
; first meeting,
102
; relationship in marriage,
19–22
,
110–11
,
151–53
,
158
,
167
,
177–78
,
240
,
242–43
,
251
,
253–55
,
268
,
276–77
,
282–83
; Reno confrontation and divorce,
277–78

marriage with Christina Sedgwick: courtship,
50–52
,
55–56
; divorce,
82
,
105
; divorce settlement,
27–28
,
90
; engagement and wedding,
60
,
107
; married life,
61–64
,
67–68
,
74
,
78–82
,
103
; separation,
68