by Leslie Brody
Cerf, Bennett
Chamberlain, Prime Minister Neville
Chancery Court
Charles, Victor
Chatsworth
Chicago Eight
childhood: aristocratic dissatisfaction with home life frustrated intellectualism Inch Kenneth reminders of morbid curiosity nostalgia for; in a teeming household
Chizzoli family
Churchill, Winston: becomes Prime Minister; Dinky petitions; invoked as aid to travel restriction; meets Decca about Esmond’s death; open letter to; as political philosopher; radio addresses; Romilly as nephew of
citizenship application
Civil Rights Congress (CRC): in Berkeley; Decca’s work for; end of; HUAC subpoenas Decca over; struggles of; Willie McGee case
civil rights movement: Berkeley activism; Bob’s legal defense of; debate over allies; First Baptist Church riots; Freedom Rides; Greensboro lunch counter sit-in; journalism on; McGee’s statement about; Willie McGee case
class issues: aristocratic vocabulary; Bob’s exposure to Mitford lifestyle; Decca’s aristocratic backdoor; gap between Debo and Decca; ignorance of public utilities; in Julia’s upbringing; in public wards
Cleaver, Eldridge
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
Coakley, J. Frank: vs. Bob Treuhaft; Decca’s dislike of; indicts Oakland Seven; Newson case
Cockburn, Alexander
Cockburn, Claud
Codornices Village
Coe, John
COINTELPRO
Cold War: domestic politics; ideological basis; spies; tensions; Truman Loyalty Order
Collins, Lucretia
Columbia Hospital
communal living: for child-care help; within the Communist Party
Communist International (Comintern)
Communist Party, England: decision not to join; Esmond advocates for; headquarters; writers
Communist Party USA: activism by; agenda at meetings; Bob joins; Bob Treuhaft on; civil rights for members; CRC defends members; Decca joins; Decca on reasons for joining; Decca’s promotion within; Decca’s subpoena regarding; donation of inheritance to; Dubinsky’s dislike for; Ethel and Julius Rosenberg as members; vs. fascist ideology; FBI trail Decca in; friends in; goes underground HUAC hearings; interest in, misunderstood; journalists within; leadership changes; McCarthy era persecution; membership for government workers; national conference; psychological requirements; publicizing membership in; social perceptions of; Supreme Court overturns convictions for; sympathizers in Petaluma; travel restriction; Treuhafts leave U.S. citizenship requirement; U.S. war on; West Coast; Women’s Commission
Communist Political Association
Congressional Dies Committee
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Congress of Racial Equality’s (CORE) Freedom Rides
Connor, Bull
conspiracy laws
Corsica
Cox, Donald
Crane, Mrs. Murray
Craven A cigarettes
Crawford, Nebby Lou
cremation
Cuba
Cummings, e. e.
D
Daily Express
Daily Mail
Daily Telegraph
Daily Worker
Daughters and Rebels (Mitford). See Hons and Rebels (Mitford)
death, of Decca
Deborah. See Mitford Cavendish, Deborah (Dowager Duchess of Devonshire)
Debussy, Claude
debutante season
Decca and the Dectones
Degnan, James P.
de la Mora, Constancia
deLappe, Pele: as artist; Berkeley Hills move; bio of; childhood; on Decca; Hons cover design; on jealousy; on Nicky’s funeral; romance with Randall; on the Rosenberg execution; son as schizophrenic; as a teacher; writing committee member; “Vicky Says” column
Democratic National Convention
Dempsey, Jack
Dennis, Eugene
Depression, Great
Der Stürmer
Devonshire, Duke of
DeWitt, Addison
Diana. See Mitford (Mosley), Diana
Dicks, Laura
Dies Jr., Martin
Dinky. See Romilly, Constancia “Dinky”
Dissent
Dobby (Doris Brin Marasse Walker): arrest of; citizenship application aid; in the Communist Party; on Decca’s independence; law firm work; meets Decca; at Nicky’s funeral
Donahue
Don’t Tell Alfred (Nancy Mitford)
Draheim, Sue
drinking: accidents and illness from; Decca on her; drunken actions; at the Happy Valley Bar; as infamous; with Kay Meyer; to mourn Julia; after Nicky’s death; per-day consumption; pre-interview; stopping; writing and
Dr. Strangelove
drugs: Decca’s view of; Kesey, Ken; prison trials
Drummonds account
Dubinsky, David
DuBois, W. E. B.
DuClos, Jacques
Duncan, Isadora
Durr, Ann
Durr, Clifford
Durr, Lucy
Durr, Tilla
Durr, Virginia: baby Dinky stays with; meets Bob Treuhaft; on the Cold War; Decca lives with; Decca loans money to; on Esmond’s death; family parties; friendship with Decca; on Joe Gelders; on McCarthy; meets Decca; at the Montgomery riots
E
Eden, Anthony
Edgware
Edises, Bert
education: from brother Tom; Communist; by Decca; of Decca by Washington; Decca’s lack of formal; false college degree; Highlander Folk School in Tennessee; home schooling; of Pele deLappe; self-taught cultural
Edwards, Catherine “Katie,”
Edward VIII
Einstein, Albert
England: Bermondsey Labour Party; Decca’s reputation in; downplays German aggression; mid-1930s politics; stationing with Esmond; Treuhaft family trip to wartime rationing
Engstrom, Eleanor
Ephron, Nora
Esmond. See Romilly, Esmond
Esquire
Evening Standard
F
Faces of Philip (Mitford)
family politics, Mitford: barred from Muv in California; Decca and Diana avoid; Decca on; Decca’s public break with; as limiting travel; schisms resulting from; Tom as supposed fascist; youthful
family relationships, Mitford: Decca and Debo; Decca and Nancy; Decca and Unity; Decca’s inheritance donation strains; at family reunion; lifestyle gaps; Nancy and Decca write on; with Nanny Blor; politics as marring; rare honesty in; and Romilly; scrapbook flap; sibling games; sisters’ personalities; tenderness in; Tom as only son; after Unity’s suicide attempt; untangling inherited mores
Famous Writers School
Farrer, Joan
fascism: vs. Communism; Decca’s fight against; of Mitford family, Decca on; Muv’s support for; of sister Diana; Tom as rumored ally to; of Unity
Faulkner, William
Farve. See Mitford, David “Farve” (Lord Redesdale)
FBI: Communist Party scrutiny; HUAC partnership; Hoover as director of; response to potential probes; shoots Fred Hampton
FBI file, on Decca: The American Way of Death period; decision to continue; extent of; formation of; funeral research; meeting a creator of; Montgomery riots in; on petition to travel; relationship to Farve in; SF Chronicle firing for; on Vietnam protest
Federal Workers Union
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Fifth, pleading the
fingerprinting
First Baptist Church, Montgomery
Fles, Barthold
Flor D’Italia
Fonda, Jane
Forest Lawn Cemetery
Forman, Chaka Esmond Fanon
Forman, James
Forman, James Robert Lumumba
Foster, William Z.
Foundry Methodist Church
Franco, General
Frantz, Laurent
Franz, Marg
e Gelders: on A Fine Old Conflict; on Bob; on Decca’s drinking; early-life bio; at HUAC hearings; on Lifeitselfmanship; moves West; on Nancy; Oakland Seven trial; in writing committee
Freedom Riders
Free French government
“Free Huey” campaign
Freeman-Mitford, David, See Mitford, David “Farve” (Lord Redesdale)
Free Speech Movement
Fresno
Frieden, Evie
friends: African American; Angelou, Maya; deLappe, Pele; Dobby Walker; Durr, Virginia; in England; Frantz, Marge Gelders; Kahn, Barbara; Meyer, Kay; Straight, Binnie; Toynbee, Philip; at the Treuhaft parties; writer
Friends Apart (Toynbee)
Frontier
fuel conservation
fund-raising: for Bob’s DA campaign; creative ideas; organized in 1953; Panther Defense Fund; People’s Daily World party; for the SF Chronicle; for Tom Mooney Memorial California Labor
School
funeral, of Decca
funeral co-ops: Decca as advocate of; handling of union deaths
Funeral Directors of San Francisco
funeral industry: vs. The American Way of Death; capitalism of; changes to; invites Decca to a convention; “Mitford” coffins; ongoing investigation of; Tunley researches
Fursland, Anthea
G
Gach, Frederick and Anna
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Gallup
gambling: by Albin Treuhaft; with Donahue in NY; of Esmond; job offered to Decca; at SF parties
Garment Workers Union
Garroway, Dave
Garry, Charles
Garry, Thomas D.
Gary, Borece
Gary, Constance
Gary, Wilbur
Gary family
Gelders, Joe
Gelders, Marge. See Franz, Marge Gelders
Genet, Jean
Germany: Bob Treuhaft’s visit to; Kristallnacht; rising military aggression; see also Hitler, Adolf
Ginsberg, Allen
Gladstein, Grossman, Sawyer and Edises
Gladstein, Richard
Glasser, Abraham
Glossop, Honoria
Gold, Herb
Goldmark, Kathi Kamen
Gollancz Publishers
Gottlieb, Robert: on A Fine Old Conflict; as Decca’s editor; on Decca as muckraker; on Decca’s money
“Grace Darling,”
Grace Had an English Heart (Mitford)
Graham, Katharine
Grande Hotel de Calvi
Grant, Joanne
The Great American Funeral
Great Terror, second
Green, Buddy
Greenglass, David
Greenglass, Ruth
Greenwich Village
Grogan, Ed
Grossman, Aubrey
Grossman, Danny
Grossman, Hazel
Guerneville
Guinness, Bryan
Guinness, Catherine
Guinness, Jonathan
Guiton family
Gumbo (Albert), Judy
H
Haight-Ashbury
Hajos, Aranka. See Treuhaft, Aranka
Hall, Barbara
Hammett, Dashiell
Hampton, Fred
Hannibal Crossing the Alps
Harper’s
Harvard University
Hastings, Selena
Hawkins, Williametta
Hayden, Tom
Hellman, Lillian
Herman, Jan
Highlander Folk School in Tennessee
Hill, Derek
Hill, Frederick
Hill, Heywood
Hilliard, David
Hinckle III, Warren
Hiss, Alger
Hitler, Adolf: death of; Decca on killing; invades the Netherlands; learns of Decca’s elopement; Mitford tea with; Muv’s sympathy for; nonaggression pact with Stalin; Unity’s friendship with; Unity’s potential break with; as witness to Diana’s wedding
Hoffman, Abbie
Hollywood
Hollywood Ten
Holt, Patricia
Hons and Rebels (Mitford): Nancy on publication of; title debate; writing of
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hopson, Louise
Horne, Ann Farrer
Hôtel Paradis
Houghton Mifflin
House Committee on Un-American Activities: activism against; the bar as terrorized by; on civic activism as Communist; Decca’s first impression of; jails writer Hammett; Jerry Rubin at; as making Decca American; mandate of; McCarthy era; Red Tide scare; sentences Hollywood Ten; subpoenas the Treuhafts
“Howl” (Ginsberg)
Hungary: Decca’s misimpressions of; Hungarians; Soviets crush uprising in; Treuhafts on socialism in
Hurok, Sol
I
immigrants, U.S.: Aranka as; assimilation; Bob as educated by; Decca as; NY Jewish; Russian-Jewish, in Petaluma
Inch Kenneth: Decca sells; family reunion on; Farve on; last summer with Muv; loneliness of; memoir writing on; Muv and Farve on; as sisters’ inheritance; Treuhafts buy; Unity and Muv on
Independent Progressive Party
Ingram, Kevin
Ingram, William
inheritance: Decca as banned from Redesdale; Inch Kenneth; from Nellie
Internal Security Division
International Brigades
Izzy Gomez’s
J
Jackson, Derek
Jackson, Mississippi
Japanese internment
Jeanette Rankin Brigade
Jeffers, Robinson
Jew Süss
jobs: Civil Rights Congress (CRC); glamour of subversive; ideology of employment; jewelry sales in Miami; lecture tour idea; market researcher; Meyer commissions; OPA inspector; performing career; professorial; and relational power balance; secretary; Washington Post article/ad for; Weinberger’s dress shop; see also activism; journalism
Johnson, Diane
Johnson, Lyndon
Johnson, Samuel
journalism: abortion research; apprenticeship in; on the civil rights movement; CRC work; Decca’s advice on; Dr. Spock trial coverage; exposing Famous Writers School con; fame for; on “fat farms,” ; as a goal; honing ability for; interviews, learning to take; McGee case reports; Meyer commissions on Montgomery riots; muckraking; objectivity in; People’s Daily World application; personal style; porn industry; radical; “St. Peter, Don’t You Call Me,” tour circuit; “Trial by Headline”; see also writing
Joyce, James
Julia. See Romilly, Julia
K
Kahn, Barbara
Kahn, Ephraim
Kahn, Kathy
Kempton, Murray
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, Robert
Kesey, Ken
KGB spy
Khrushchev
Kim, Jungmin
Kind and Usual Punishment (Mitford)
King Jr., Reverend Martin Luther
Kliot, Al
Knopf
Koko (dog)
Kopkind, Andrew
Krieger, Wilbur M.
Kristallnacht
Kubrick, Stanley
Ku Klux Klan
Kunstler, William
L
labor activism: Congress of Industrial Organizations; in the Durr household; education; by Joe Gelders
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Landauer, Ida
Lang, Dan
Lapin, Adam
Lapin, Eva
Lapin, Mark
Lasch, Christopher
Ledbetter, Huddie William (Leadbelly)
Leftists: authors; Bloomsbury meeting-place for; Decca’s written spoofing of; Esmond and Decca as; ideological disputes; Marge Gelders; new generation of; as pro-price control; “reactionary” as used by
Legg, Sheila
Lenin
Leonard, Karen
Lerner, Gerda
Lessi
ng, Doris
Lewis, John
Life
Lifeitselfmanship; or, How to Become a Precisely-Because Man: An Investigation into Current L (or Left-Wing) Usage (Mitford)
Linton-on-Ouse
Livingston, Mary Walton
Lomax, Alan
London Times
Lorca, Federico García
Los Angeles
Lothian, Lord
Lottie
The Loved One
The Loved One (Waugh)
Love in a Cold Climate (Nancy Mitford)
Lovell, Mary
loyalty oath, professor’s
Loyalty Order
M
MacGibbon, James
Maine Chance
marijuana
marriage, to Bob: Aranka on; Bob’s affair; child rearing; courtship; Decca looks back on; family parties; his pursuit of her West; home life; intimacy of; jealousy; odes to her; proposal; retirement years; wedding ceremony
marriage, to Esmond: basis of; Decca as soldier’s wife; deepening intimacy in; equality in; lack of money; long-distance strains; Martha’s Vineyard vacation; Virginia Durr on; wedding ceremony
Martha’s Vineyard
Maverick, Maury
May Day
Mayflower Hotel
McCall’s
McCarran Act
McCarthy, Joseph Raymond
McClure, Jane
McClure, Michael
McDew, Charles
McGee, Rosalee
McGee, Willie
medical system: Hillary Clinton’s reform efforts; obstetrics; pee-in activism; psychiatry; public wards
memorial services, for Decca
Menemsha Inn
Meyer, Agnes
Meyer, Eugene: as a big shot; commissions by; Decca on; finds work for Decca; gold mining success
Meyer, Kay
Miami
military service: avoiding the draft; by black soldiers; by the Mitford family; personnel deployment; Romilly, Esmond; Treuhaft as unfit for
Misdeal (Gerstein)
The Mitford Girls
Mitford (Cavendish), Deborah “Debo” (Dowager Duchess of Devonshire): as British nobility; censors Nancy’s estate; curiosity about Decca’s memoir; daughter Emma; Decca’s relationship to lifestyle marriage to Cavendish; scrapbook flap; sense of humor; Society of Hons; visits Oakland
Mitford, David “Farve” (Lord Redesdale): crackpot schemes; cuts Decca from the will; death of; Decca’s pain about; on Decca’s running away; Inch Kenneth home; Muv and Decca discuss; personality of; schism with Decca; splits with Muv over politics; teasing of; writes at Nicky’s birth