Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., for The White Cliffs by Alice Duer Miller. Copyright 1940 by Alice Duer Miller; renewed © 1967 by Denning Miller.
Walt Disney Music Company, for “Mickey Mouse March.” Words and music by Jimmie Dodd. © 1955 Walt Disney Music Company.
Drake Activities Co., Hallmark Music Co., Inc., Al Hoffman Songs, Inc., and Miller Music Corporation, for “Mairzy Doats” (page 288). Words and music by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston. Copyright © 1943 Miller Music Corp., N.Y., N.Y. U.S. copyright renewed and assigned to Drake Activities Co., Hallmark Music Co., Inc. and Al Hoffman Songs, Inc. Rights controlled for the world, except United States, its territories and possessions by Miller Music Corp., N.Y., N.Y.
Norma Millay Ellis, for “There Are No Islands, Any More” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, published in the New York Times, June 14, 1940. Copyright 1940, © 1968 by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Redd Evans Music Company, for words and music from “He’s 1-A in the Army and He’s A-1 in My Heart” by Redd Evans. Copyright 1941 by Redd Evans.
Leo Feist, Inc., for “Chattanooga Choo Choo.” Words and music by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren. Copyright © 1941, renewed 1969 Twentieth Century Music Corporation, New York, New York. All rights controlled by Leo Feist, Inc.
Frank Music Corp., for “Hey There” by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, © 1954 Frank Music Corp.; and for “Standing on the Comer” by Frank Loesser, © 1956 Frank Music Corp.
Glad Music Company, for “Chantilly Lace” by J. P. Richardson. © Copyright 1958 by Glad Music, 314 E. 11th St., Houston, Texas. All Rights Reserved. International copyright secured.
Golden West Melodies, Inc. for “Just Walking in the Rain” by Johnny Bragg and Robert S. Riley. Copyright 1953 by Golden West Melodies, Inc.
Green Menu Music Factory, Inc., for “Winky Dink and You.” Words and music by John Redmond and John Gart. Copyright © 1954 Bark Music Corp. Copyright assigned 1973 to Mitchell Music Corporation.
T. B. Harms Company, for “So in Love” by Cole Porter, © copyright 1948 Cole Porter, sole selling agent T. B. Harms Company, 100 Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica, California; and for “A Fine Romance” by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields, copyright © 1936 T. B. Harms Company. Copyright renewed T. B. Harms Company, 100 Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica, California. International copyright secured. All rights reserved.
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. and the Society of Authors, London, and Jonathan Cape, Ltd., London, for “To An Athlete Dying Young” from “A Shropshire Lad”—Authorised Edition—from The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman. Copyright 1939, 1940, © 1965 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. Copyright © 1967, 1968 by Robert E. Symons.
Ludlow Music, Inc., for “Goodnight Irene” (page 551). Words and music by Huddie Ledbetter and John A. Lomax. © copyright 1936 (renewed 1964) and 1950 Ludlow Music, Inc., New York, N.Y.
Maclen Music, Inc., for “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Copyright © 1967 Northern Songs Ltd. All rights for the USA, Canada, Mexico and the Philippines controlled by Maclen Music, Inc. c/o ATV Music Group. All Rights Reserved.
Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, for “Lilli Marlene.” Words and music by Hans Leip, Norbert Schultze, Tommy Connor. © copyright Apollo-Verlag Paul Lincke, Berlin. Sole selling agent in the United States of America and Mexico—Edward B. Marks Music Corporation.
Bill Mauldin, for captions from nine of his cartoons. Captions copyrighted 1944 by United Features Syndicate, Inc.
MCA Music, for “If You Love Me, Really Love Me (Hymne à l’Amour), English words by Geoffrey Parsons, French words by Edith Piaf, music by Marguerite Monnot, © Copyright 1949, 1953 by France Music Corporation, New York, N.Y., sole selling agent, Duchess Music Corporation, New York, N.Y., for U.S.A. and Canada; and for “Now Is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song),” words and music by Maewa Kaihan, Clement Scott and Dorothy Stewart, © Copyright 1913 by W. H. Paling and Co. Ltd. (Renewed), © Copyright 1946 by Leeds Music Corporation, 445 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022, by arrangement with Boston Music Company, Boston, Mass. and W. H. Paling and Co., Ltd., Australia. Both songs all rights reserved.
Miller Music Corporation, New York, New York, for “Happy Bluebirds” by Johnny Gruelle and Will Woodin, copyright © 1930, renewed © 1957 Miller Music Corporation.
Ivan Mogull Music Corporation, for “Nature Boy” by Eden Ahbez. © 1948 by Crestview Music Corp. Sole selling agent: Ivan Mogull Music Corporation.
Morley Music Company, for “Five Minutes More,” lyrics by Sammy Cahn, music by Jule Styne, © Copyright 1946 by Morley Music Co., © Copyright renewed and assigned to Morley Music Co.; and for “I’ll Walk Alone,” lyrics by Sammy Cahn, music by Jule Styne, © Copyright 1944 by Morley Music Co., © Copyright renewed and assigned to Morley Music Co.
Music Music Music Inc., for “Ballad of the Green Berets” by Barry Sadler and Robin Moore. © Copyright 1963, 1964, and 1966 by Music Music Music Inc.
National Broadcasting Company, Inc., for the “Howdy Doody” theme. © Children’s Songs, Inc. 1948. Reprinted with the permission of the National Broadcasting Company, Inc.
New Directions Publishing Corporation, for “Marriage” from The Happy Birthday of Death by Gregory Corso, Copyright © 1960 by New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Paramount Music Corporation, for “Thanks for the Memory” by Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger. Copyright © 1937 by Paramount Music Corporation. Copyright renewed 1964 by Paramount Music Corporation.
Parker Brothers Games, for a Community Chest card and Park Place title deed card from “Monopoly” ® real estate trading game equipment. © 1935, 1946, 1961 Parker Brothers.
Planetary Music Publishing Corporation, for “The Yellow Rose of Texas” by Don George. Copyright © 1955 Planetary Music Publ. Corp. All rights reserved.
Robbins Music Corporation, New York, New York, for “Goodnight Sweetheart.” Words and music by Ray Noble, Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly. Copyright © 1931, renewed 1959 Robbins Music Corporation.
Fred Rose MUST, Incorporated, for “A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation)” by Marty Robbins, © Copyright 1957 by Fred Rose Music, Inc.; and for “Big Bad John” by Jimmy Dean, © Copyright 1961 by Fred Rose Music, Inc. Both songs all rights reserved.
Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc., for “Beer Barrel Polka” by Lew Brown, Vladimir Timm and Jaromir Vejvota. “Skoda Lasky” copyright 1934 by Jana Hoffmanna, vva., assigned to Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc. Renewed. Copyright 1939 by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc. Renewed. International Copyright Secured. All rights reserved including public performance for profit.
Shawnee Press, Inc., for the dramatic cantata “The Lonesome Train.” Words by Millard Lampell, music by Earl Robinson. © Copyright 1943, Earl Robinson. © Copyright 1945, Sun Music Co., Inc. U.S. Copyrights renewed. Copyrights assigned to Shawnee Press, Inc., Delaware Water Gap, Pa. 18327.
Paul Simon Music, for “The Sound of Silence” by Paul Simon. © 1964 Paul Simon.
Southern Music Publishing Co., Inc., for “Mocking Bird Hill” by Vaughn Horton. Copyright 1949 by Southern Music Publishing Co., Inc.
Time/Life Picture Agency, for the poster “Junk Makes Fighting Weapons” from Fabulous Century 1940–1950, published by Time Life Books.
Venice Music, Inc., for “Tutti Frutti” by Dorothy LaBostrie and Richard Penniman. Copyright 1955, 1956 Venice Music, Inc., Hollywood, California 90069.
Viking Press, Inc., for Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. Copyright 1949 by Arthur Miller.
Vogue Music, Inc., for “Blue Velvet.” Words and music by Bernie Wayne and Lee Morris. Copyright © 1951 Vogue Music, Inc., 100 Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica, California 90401. All rights reserved. International Copyright Secured.
Warner Bros. Music, for the following songs: “Miss Otis Regrets” by Cole Porter, © 1934 Harms, Inc. “Bei Mir Bist du Schön” by Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin, © 1937 Harms, Inc. Words and music* from “They’re Either Too Young or Too Old”
by Frank Loesser and Arthur Schwartz, © 1943 M. Witmark & Sons. “Happy Days Are Here Again” by Milton Ager and Jack Yellen, © 1929 Advanced Music Corporation. “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” by Jay Gorney and E. Y. Harburg, © 1932 Harms, Inc. “Blues in the Night” by Johnny and Harold Arlen, © 1941 Remick Music Corporation. “I’m Just Wild About Harry” by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, © 1921 M. Witmark & Sons. All songs copyright renewed, all rights reserved. “Blowin’ in the Wind” by Bob Dylan, © 1962 by M. Witmark & Sons. “Like a Rolling Stone” by Bob Dylan, © 1965 M. Witmark & Sons. “My Generation” by James A. Griffin and Mike Z. Gordon, © 1967 Stone Canyon Music. All songs all rights reserved.
United Artists Music Co., Inc., for “Michael.” New words and new music arrangement by Dave Fisher. © 1960, 1961 Unart Music Corporation, New York, New York.
Wonderland Music Company, Inc., for “The Ballad of Davy Crockett.” Words by Tom Blackburn. Music by George Bruns. © 1954 Wonderland Music Company, Inc.
Yellow Dog Music, Inc., for “Is That All There Is” by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Copyright © 1966 by Yellow Dog Music, Inc.
Endnotes
1. The Cruelest Year
1Sylvia Porter began writing for the New York Post in 1935.
2The day after the bloody suppression of hungry marchers at the Ford plant on March 7, Detroit’s police commissioner laid off 162 policemen.
2. Roosevelt!
1By contrast Robert S. McNamara, the most available high official thirty years later, could be so reached by only twenty-five people.
3. Stirrings
1It never did.
2Among the interested California observers of the campaign were Jerry Voorhis, a Sinclair supporter who was later elected to Congress, and the man who would later unseat Voorhis, Richard M. Nixon, Whittier ’34.
4. The Roosevelt Referendum
1Of the Eighteenth Amendment. Repeal meant virtually nothing else in the early 1930s.
2At this point the political evangelist disappears from this narrative. In the late 1960s the Reverend Mr. Smith was discovered in Los Angeles, where he described himself as “for all practical purposes, the senior adviser and liaison contact for something over 1,700 right-wing organizations.”
5. The Conservative Phoenix
1It led directly to the Hatch Act (1939), forbidding political participation by federal employees below the policy-making level.
2But labor took care of its own. Murphy was appointed to the Supreme Court.
6. A Shadow of a Primitive Terror
1Of course, in the summer of 1938 Howard Hughes did encircle the world in less than four days, but he was a daredevil. A lot of people thought he did it for the publicity.
2One of the more entertaining aspects of showbiz was its ethnic deodorization. A generation later this practice would be challenged, but in the 1930s the lively arts were—apparently—wholly Anglo-Saxon. Though debatable, the custom endures. Thus we have or have had Doris Day (her real name, Doris Kapplehoff), Judy Garland (Frances Gumm), Claudette Colbert (Claudette Chauchoin), Karl Maiden (Maiden Sekulovich), Laurence Harvey (Larry Skikne), Tony Curtis (Bernie Schwartz), Tab Hunter (Arthur Gelien), Mitzi Gaynor (Mitzi Gerber), Ethel Merman (Ethel Zimmerman), Vic Damone (Vito Farinola), Judy Holliday (Judy Tuvim), Rita Hayworth (Margarita Carmen Cansino), Jane Wyman (Sarah Fulks), Kirk Douglas (Issur Danielovitch), Danny Kaye (David Kaminsky), and Jack Benny (Benjamin Kubelsky).
7. Through the Night with a Light from Above
1As the ministers, deputies, and civil servants left Paris for Vichy, the two American films playing at the Champs Elysées were Going Places, and You Can’t Take It with You.
2In 1940 the slowly wakening United States forged 66,993,000 tons of steel while the German Reich, running full tilt, produced only 28,000,000.
8. America on the Brink
1How much the Japanese ambassadors knew has never been established. It is thought that they—like Hull—had known everything except the target.
11. Lilacs in the Dooryard
1In 1955 Dr. von Braun became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He has been among the leaders in the aerospace program. Fifteen American colleges and universities have conferred honorary degrees upon him.
2So named because it was formed on New Caledonia. Twenty-five years later its junior officers would include one William Calley Jr.
3The last two later merged and became United Press International (UPI).
4The actual text: DARLINGS: PA SLEPT AWAY THIS AFTERNOON. HE DID HIS JOB TO THE END AS HE WOULD WANT YOU TO DO. BLESS YOU. ALL OUR LOVE. MOTHER.
5One copy of the Roosevelt funeral plans was deposited in the archives of the State Department, and was used by Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy for President Kennedy’s funeral arrangements eighteen years afterward, in late November 1963.
12. A New World, Under a New Sun
1Japan comprises four main islands, Kyushu, Honshu, Shikoku, and Hokkaido. Tokyo is in southeastern Honshu. In 1945 the population of these four was 72,598,077. When Radio Tokyo spoke of “one hundred million” Japanese, they were including such settled colonies as Saipan, mandated to the emperor by the Treaty of Versailles.
13. The Fraying Flags of Triumph
1Author’s italics.
2Acheson’s presence in Madison Square Garden was later cited by his critics as evidence of sympathy for Communism.
14. Life with Harry
1Now the Sheraton-Park. It still stands at the corner of Connecticut Avenue and Woodley Road N.W. and is still a rookery for eminent legislators.
15. A Little Touch of Harry in the Night
1Who would be chief of the Secret Service on November 22, 1963.
2One Truman elector in Tennessee later defected to Thurmond.
16. The Age of Suspicion
1In addition to Ewing the planners were Clifford, Charles S. Murphy, C. Girard Davidson, David A. Morse, and Leon Keyserling.
2It was not advertised in the New York Times.
3In postwar America the terms “ultraconservatism” and “the right” have become as irrelevant to traditional conservatism as the New Left is to prewar liberalism and radicalism. All are in revolt against the world as it is. Any attempt to rechristen them here would merely compound the confusion. Therefore here, as elsewhere, the author has reluctantly adopted the usage of the time.
4The Communist issue was acquiring an idiom all its own. “Enemies of the Free World” were to be “ferreted out” despite “commiecrats” who “coddled” security risks and were “soft” on “fellow travelers.” As Robert Griffith of the University of Georgia has pointed out, long before the rise of McCarthy, Congressman Eugene Cox of Georgia—among others—had begun a speech on subversion with the solemn declaration, “I hold in my hand…”
5J. Parnell Thomas was chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities when the article appeared. He was convicted of fraud on December 3, 1949, fined $10,000, and sent to prison.
6Her lover and chief contact. His real name was Jacob Golos. Before his death in 1944 Golos was a link in the chain whose other links included Harry Gold and Klaus Fuchs.
7“Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me…. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
8Wife of William P. Bundy, who in the 1960s became one of the chief architects of the government’s Vietnam policies.
17. Into the Abyss
1The general said substantially the same thing to G. Ward Price, the British journalist, that same month and to William R. Mathews of the Arizona Daily Star later in the year.
2The implication is that by the time of McCarthy’s Wheeling speech the figure may have become out of date. It was. In the August 1950 Harper’s Alfred Friendly reported that as of February 1950 just 65 of the 205 were still in the State Department’s employ. Of course Friendly had made more than one phone call. That kind of digging was beyond McCarth
y’s comprehension.
3“Communism is twentieth-century Americanism”—Earl Browder, 1936 (see page 97).
4This from two mutually supporting interviews granted by the general during his retirement and withheld until his death.
18. A House Divided
1A British army ballad, it was based on an American gospel hymn, “Kind Words Can Never Die.”
2Lattimore was indicted twice, in 1952 and 1954. The last of the charges was dismissed in 1955.
3© Children’s Songs, Inc. 1948.
4Dean is as important in American legend as Jean Harlow and Marilyn Monroe. Nearly twenty years afterward, he would still be receiving fan mail. Excluding microfilm, the New York Public Library finds it impossible to keep Dean material. His worshippers steal it. The Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts has just one book about him. It is in French, and all the pictures in it have been cut out.
5One of the last, charming manifestations of which came ten years later, just after Lyndon Johnson moved into the White House, when a woman in Houston remarked, “Isn’t it nice to have a President without an accent?”
19. Right Turn
1President Kennedy pardoned Connelly in 1962; President Johnson pardoned Caudle in 1965.
2On the eve of World War II Martin had led the successful fights which rejected legislation to fortify Guam and Wake. Arming them, he had said then, might provoke Japanese warlords.
3At the time of Nixon’s first speech on this subject, the governor had been virtually unknown outside Illinois, and in the version which went into the Congressional Record his name was misspelled “Stephenson.”
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