The Late John Marquand (48 page)

military service,
52–55

money, attitude toward,
26–29
,
106
,
129
,
177
,
265

O'Reilly lawsuit,
100–1
,
122
,
125
,
140–41

as poor social outcast,
47–49
,
51
,
105–6
,
168

poverty in early life,
26
,
31
,
35
,
40
,
45
,
47

property and possessions, desire for,
127

Pulitzer Prize,
99
,
131
,
134
,
151
,
168

self-dramatization,
130–31

speech and voice,
73

in sports,
46
,
241

thrift,
20
,
26–27

at Treasure Island,
220–26

will,
295–96

World War I service,
53–55
,
162–63

in World War II,
161–63
,
167

writers, likes and dislikes,
179–80
,
186

writing: Adelaide's collaboration,
115
,
148–49
,
160
,
171
,
184
,
282
; advice from collaborators,
188
,
201–3
,
230–32
; chronological list,
301–10
; development shown in
Thirty Years
,
258–59
; dictates to Carol,
70–71
,
75
,
79
,
269–70
; first published story,
57
; flashback technique,
89
,
125
,
290
; Harvard asks for manuscripts,
150–51
; last novel, work on,
292
; as revenge for the past,
123–24
; sales figures, preoccupation with,
131
,
133–34
; style,
89
,
91–92
,
260
; two types of fiction,
128–29
,
159–60
,
168
; wants to write one great novel,
71
,
90
,
168
;
see also separate titles

Marquand, John Phillips (JPM's grandfather),
31

Marquand, Joseph (JPM's ancestor),
30–31

Marquand, Joseph (JPM's uncle),
31

Marquand, Margaret (JPM's aunt),
see
Oakman, Margaret Marquand

Marquand, Margaret Curzon (Mrs. John Phillips Marquand, JPM's grandmother),
31

Marquand, Margaret Fuller (Mrs. Philip Marquand, JPM's mother),
33
,
55
,
106
,
114
; character,
32
,
35
; death,
113
; family background,
32
; travels with her husband,
35
,
45

Marquand, Mary (Aunt Mollie),
31
,
35
,
37
,
38
,
40
,
205

Marquand, Philip (JPM's father),
26
,
29–35
,
220
; in California,
35
; and Curzon's Mill estate,
203
,
205
; gambling craze,
31–32
,
113
; gambling debts,
28
; at Hale lawsuit hearing,
209
; JPM's attitude toward,
29
; JPM's responsibility for,
113–14
; loses his inheritance,
31
; old age,
114
; in Panama Canal Zone,
45
; in panic of 1907,
34–35
; in Wilmington,
32
,
45
,
55

Marquand, Russell (JPM's uncle),
31

Marquand, Timothy Fuller (JPM's son),
161
,
247

Marquand family,
30–31

Marshall, Gen. George,
243

Mary, Great-Aunt,
see
Curzon, Mary

Massachusetts Field Artillery, Battery A,
52–55
,
72–73
,
162

Matthiessen, F. O., book on New England renaissance,
297–98

Maugham, W. Somerset,
178
,
179
,
185
,
228
; Mayes and,
188–89
; “A Woman of Fifty,”
189

Maule, France,
69
,
71
,
268

Mayer, Louis B.,
22
,
152

Mayes, Herbert R.,
188–91
,
228
,
252
; and JPM's stories,
190–91
,
194–95
; and Lewis,
189–90
; and Maugham,
188–89

Mayes, Mrs. Herbert R. (Grace),
189

Melville Goodwin, U.S.A
.,
227–32
,
244–45
,
260
,
282
; Geismar's review,
244
; Greene's advice on,
230–32
; motion picture,
263–65
; as serial,
228
,
232–33
,
263

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

Merck, George,
59
,
73
,
161
,
186
,
201

Merrimack River,
35

Metcalf, K. D.,
150

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
22
,
152
,
154
,
156
,
264

Mexico, American troops in,
53

Michener, James,
179
;
Hawaii
,
179

Middlesex School,
45

Miller, Arthur,
Death of a Salesman
,
203

Milo Junction story,
73–74

Milton, John,
180

Minton, Balch (publishers),
286

Miss Chapin's School,
166

Miss Spence's School,
104

Mr. Moto Is So Sorry
,
129

M.I.T.,
32
,
35

Mizener, Arthur, On
Women and Thomas Harrow
,
290

Mollie, Aunt,
see
Marquand, Mary

Mooney, Miss, rooming house,
47
,
48

Moore County Hunt,
87

Morley, Christopher,
177
,
255
,
256

Morris, John,
284

Morristown School for Boys,
41

Morton, Charles, on Geismar's review of
Point of No Return
,
217–18

Moto, Mr., stories about,
79–80
,
90
,
103
,
129
,
159–61
,
219
,
263
,
268
,
270–73

Myopia Hunt Club,
284

Myrtis (servant at Treasure Island),
221

Nassau,
222
;
see also
Treasure Island

Nathan, Robert,
48

National Industrial Conference Board,
103

New Hope, Pa.,
165

New South Wales, reformatory in,
265

New York: 1 Beekman Place, JPM's apartment,
107
,
111
,
126
,
152
,
174
,
254
; Century Club,
202
,
265
; Colony Club,
22
; Cosmopolitan Club,
104
; Harvard Club,
202–3
,
265
; JPM in,
19
,
55
,
59
,
62
,
75
,
80
,
105
,
107
,
111
,
138
; JPM's parents in,
32
; Knickerbocker Club,
265
,
293
; Plaza Hotel,
176
; St. Regis Hotel,
175
,
191
,
257
; Stork Club,
189

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
,
97
n
,
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