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Authors: Ken Alder

453
"Kay was temperamental":
Viola Stevens, quoted in E.K.,
Lie Detector Man,
143.

454
"You’re both too":
LKP/3: E.K. to L.K., 8/31/39.

455
"It was the core":
ADMP: Agnes de Mille,"[Keeler]," [1980s].

456
"it does make life":
KAP: K.A. to parents, 5/2/38.

457
"Rosenfeldt":
LKP/2: L.K. to [Aunt] Betsy [Bunnell], 10/16/40.

458
"Maybe that’s because":
KAP: K.A. to Clare Applegate, 11/9/32.

459
"You’re voting":
ADMP: Agnes De Mille,"[Keeler]," [1980s].

460
"I’ve made so many":
KAP: K.A. to Clare Applegate, 5/11/40.

461
"cracked up":
AVP/17: L.K. to A.V., 5/3/41, but refers to 1940.

462
"Kay drops in":
CKP/7: L.K. to Ormeida Keeler, 12/19/40.

463
"not quite normal":
A.V., quoted in LKP/3: E.K. to L.K., 3/12/41.

464
"[He told me] the same":
ADMP: Agnes de Mille,"[Keeler]," [1980s]. Author interview with Theodore "App" Applegate, 1/18/2004.

465
"abandonment":
LKP/2: L.K. to [Uncle] Sterling [Bunnell], 5/15/41. See also CCCP/41S7328:
Katherine Keeler v. Leonarde Keeler,
"Report," 6/18/41.

466
"Sure my machine": WP,
10/5/46.

467
"new birthday":
LKP/2: L.K. to Ormeida Keeler, 6/25/41.

468
"I have a hunch":
LKP/3: L.K. to E.K., 6/21/41.

469
"[M]arriage, even where":
LKP-DoD: [Clare Applegate] to L.K., 12/8/44.

470
"those who wished":
L.K., quoted in Agnes de Mille to L.K., 9/4/41.

471
"I think so well":
ADMP: Agnes de Mille to L.K., 9/4/41.

472
"And I think you":
ADMP: Agnes de Mille to L.K., 9/14/[41].

473
"I thoroughly agree":
ADMP: L.K. to Agnes de Mille, 9/8/41, emphasis in original.

474
"master of the lie detector":
LKP-DoD: Cecil Martwell [Kentucky] to L.K., 5/14/47.

475
"coincidences":
LKP-DoD: [Nutter Fort, W.V.] to L.K., n.d.

476
"delicate needles"
and
"You have all"
and
"This is just as": CT,
7/1/41. See also
CDN,
7/1/41;
NYT,
7/1/41;
LAT,
7/1/41.

477
"Mr. Keeler has":
Cook County Coroner’s Office/18451: "Inquest on the Body of Carl M. Anderson," 7/1/41. See also E.K.,
Lie Detector Man,
147.

PART 3. TRUTH, JUSTICE, AND THE AMERICAN LIE DETECTOR

478
"
POPE
(exhausted)":
Bertolt Brecht,
Life of Galileo,
ed. Eric Bentley (New York: Grove, Weidenfeld, [1940], 1966), 110.

CHAPTER 14. A LIE DETECTOR OF CURVES AND MUSCLE

479
"
STEVE
: Well perhaps":
W.M.,"Wonder Woman versus the Prison Spy Ring,"
Wonder Woman,
No. 1 (Summer, 1942). Differs slightly from WMP-SI: W.M.,"Wonder Woman," Original Script, Quarterly #1C, p. 5.

480
"truth telling would be":
W.M.,
Lie Detector Test,
146.

481
Marston’s theory of human emotions:
W.M.,
Emotions,
113, 137, 369–373.

482
"From these studies":
W.M.,
Emotions,
300.

483
"A freshman girl":
W.M.,
Emotions,
312.

484
When he polled college:
WMP: W.M., "Blondes, Brunettes and Redheads,"120.

485
"He had a family":
Les Daniels,
The Life and Times of the Amazon Princess, Wonder Woman
(San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle, 2000), 28, 31.

486
Sanger was Olive:
Olive Byrne Richard, "My Aunt Margaret," in "Our Margaret Sanger," Ellen Watumull, ed., at www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/our_ ms_richard.htm.

487
"the country will see": NYT,
11/11/37.

488
"The air was thick": NYT,
1/31/28.

489
"[b]londes prefer gentlemen":
WMP: [W.M.], "Blondes, Brunettes and Redheads," 426.

490
"to apply psychology": NYT,
12/25/28.

491
"Motion pictures are emotion": LAT,
1/11/29.

492
"No other organization": New York Evening Post,
12/28/28.

493
"shaped by the demands":
Münsterberg,
Photoplay,
41.

494
"The horror which":
Münsterberg,
Photoplay,
53.

495
"a big money saver":
Gorham Munson,"Try Living, Try Loving, Try Laughing! Says William Moulton Marston,"
Practical Psychology
(5/37): 13–20. See section on censorship in Pitkin and Marston,
Sound Pictures,
52–81.

496
"the best known psychologist":
WMP: Unidentified newspaper clipping, 12/18/29.

497
"like a living, breathing":
BPP/10: L.K.,"Summary of Activities," 1931.

498
"emotional…dead spots": LAT,
12/6/31. See also
Time,
12/14/31; Leon Meehan,"Frankenstein,"
Motion Picture Herald,
11/14/31.

499
"Now I know":
Gregory Wm. Mank,"Production Background," in
Frankenstein,
ed. Philip J. Riley (Absecon, N.J.: MagicImage Filmbooks, 1989), 40.

500
"Frankenstein merely":
Mank,"Production Background," 37.

501
"[W]e actors experienced":
Mank,"Production Background," 37.

502
"spine-chilling": NYT,
12/5/31.

503
"grouchy and irritable":
"New Facts about Shaving,"
Time,
10/17/38; "Lie Detector ‘Tells All,’"
Life,
11/21/38, 12/19/38; "New Facts about Shaving,"
Saturday Evening Post,
10/8/38.

504
"inducement":
JLP-BG: J.L. to E. P. Jordan, 12/12/38. See also JLP/2: J.L. draft report for Gillette, [1938]; and FBI: John Haus to J. Edgar Hoover, 7/13/39.

505
"Try Living": LAT,
11/7/37.

506
"original, oldest":
www.discprofile.com/whatisdisc.htm, registered on 8/22/2006. See W.M., "This Test Reveals Your Secret Self,"
Your Life
(9/39): 23–39.

507
"twists, repression":
W.M.,
Lie Detector Test,
138.

508
"higher emotions": LAT,
1/25/39.

509
For the readers: Look (
12/6/38), 16–17.

510
"Healthy love":
W.M.,
Lie Detector Test,
119–120.

511
"mayhem, murder":
Stirling North in
Chicago Daily News,
quoted in Olive [Byrne] Richard, "Don’t Laugh at the Comics,"
Family Circle
(10/25/40): 10–11, 22.

512
"jealous, mercenary":
W.M., "What Comics Do to Your Children,"
Your Life
(10/39), 80–89.

513
"fundamental emotional":
Olive [Byrne] Richard, "Don’t Laugh at the Comics.".

514
"Homeric inheritance":
W.M., "Why 100,000,000 Americans Read Comics,"
American Scholar
13 (1943–1944): 1–10, quotation, 6.

515
"blood-curdling masculinity":
W.M., "Why 100,000,000 Americans Read Comics," 8.

516
"Give them an alluring":
W.M., "Why 100,000,000 Americans Read Comics," 9.

517
"woman’s love charm":
WMP-SI: W.M. to Coulton Waugh, 3/5/45.

518
"the growth in the power":
WMP-SI: W.M. to Sheldon Mayer, 4/12/42.

519
"I want you":
WMP-SI: W.M. to Sheldon Mayer, 2/23/41.

520
"Frankly":
WMP-SI: W.M. to Coulton Waugh, 3/5/45.

521
"or lack of it":
WMP-SI: Josette Frank to M. C. Gaines, 2/17/43.

522
"cult of force":
Walter Ong, quoted in
Time,
10/22/45.

523
"normally":
Frederic Wertham,
Seduction of the Innocent
(New York: Rinehart, [1954]), 235.

524
"I am one of those":
WMP-SI: [J.J.] to W.M., 9/9/43.

525
less "sexy":
WMP-SI: Dorothy Roubicek to M. C. Gaines, 2/19/43.

526
"Superman without muscle":
WMP-SI: W.M. to M. C. Gaines, 9/15/43.

527
"even a wee bit":
WMP: Annie Dalton Marston to W.M., 8/13/42.

528
"The only hope":
WMP-SI: W.M. to M. C. Gaines, 2/20/43.

529
"The Battle for Woman Kind": Wonder Woman,
No. 5 (June–July 1943).

CHAPTER 15. ATOMIC LIES

530
"
GUILDENSTERN
":
Tom Stoppard,
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
(New York: Grove, 1967), 17.

531
"wrapt up here":
Laurence Sterne,
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
(London: Penguin, [1759–1767], 1987), 96.

532
"Adam, Adam":
Ludovico à Páramo,
De Origine et Progressu Officcii Sanctae Inquisitionis
(Madrid, 1598), cited in Kimberly Lynn Hossain, "Was Adam the First Heretic? Luis de Páramo, Diego de Simancas, and the Origins of Inquisitorial Practice,"
Archive for Reformation History
[2006]. For God as "Inquisitore maraviglioso," see John Tedeschi,
The Prosecution of Heresy
(Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval and Renaissance Texts, 1991), 131.

533
"But we abominate":
Francis Bacon,
The New Atlantis,
in
The Philosophical Works
(London: Midwinter, 1737), 3: 298.

534
One historian of science:
Peter Galison, "Removing Knowledge,"
Critical Inquiry
31 (2004): 229–243.

535
"subversives":
EFMP: E. F. McDonald to Captain E. B. Brown, 12/19/45.

536
"was getting along beautifully":
KLP/2: L.K. to Sherman and Ruth Jennings, 11/13/42.

537
"Of course, the 210":
LKP-DoD: L.K. to Captain James Delaney, 9/21/42.

538
"potential menace":
J. Edgar Hoover, "Enemies at Large,"
American Magazine
(4/44): 17, 97–100, quotation, 97.

539
last mass execution: NYT,
8/26/45. Richard Whittingham,
Martial Justice: The Last Mass Execution in the United States
(Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, [1971], 1997).

540
"The Americans want":
Helmut Hörner,
A German Odyssey,
quoted in Ron Robin,
The Barbed-Wire College: Reeducating German POWs in the United States during World War II
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995), 37. See also Judith Gansberg,
Stalag: U.S.A.: The Remarkable Story of German POWs in America
(New York: Crowell, 1977), 61–62.

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