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by Studs Terkel


  St. Louis Browns’ Fan Club

  Salvatore, Eugene

  Sam’s Place (Chicago bar)

  Sand, George

  Sandburg, Carl

  Sanger, Margaret

  Sarnoff, David

  Saroyan, William

  Saturday Evening Symphony Hour (WGN radio)

  Saylor, Alan

  Saylor, Frances Wheeler

  Scala, Florence

  Scalia, Antonin

  Schmidt (Air Force sergeant)

  Schomer, Howard

  Schreiner, Olive (aka Ralph Iron)

  Schriffin, André

  Schweitzer, Albert

  Schwimmer, David

  Scopes (John T.) trial

  Seattle General Strike (1919)

  Second City

  Seeger, Pete

  Selma-to-Montgomery March

  Semmelweiss, Ignaz

  Serb (hotel guest)

  Sevareid, Eric

  Seward, William Henry

  Shahn, Ben

  Shakespeare, William

  Sharp, Malcolm

  Shaw, George Bernard

  Shea, Martin

  Sheridan, Jim

  Sheridan, John

  Sheridan, Tom

  Sherman, Lowell

  Silver Shirts

  Simmons, George. See Stauffer, Glenn

  Simpson, Wally

  Simpson (Washington train man)

  Sinclair, Upton

  Sinn Fein

  Sister Carrie (Dreiser)

  60 Minutes (CBS-TV)

  Skelly, Hal

  Slezak, Joe

  Slim, Memphis

  Smith, Al

  Smith, Dick

  Smith, Gerald L.K.

  Snow, C. P.

  Social Security

  Social Workers’ Union

  Socialist Party

  Somebody in Boots (Algren)

  Sounds of the City (radio)

  Southern Bell

  Southern Conference for Human Welfare

  Soviet American Friendship Committee

  Soviet Union

  Soyinka, Wole

  Spears, Britney

  Spies, August

  Sprague, Ed

  Springsteen, Bruce

  Stalin, Joseph

  Stalingrad, Soviet Union

  Stander, Lionel

  Stanislavski, Konstantin

  Stanwyck, Barbara

  Star & Garter (Chicago)

  Stauffer, Betty

  Stauffer, Glenn (aka George Simmons)

  Stein, Hannah

  Steinbeck, John

  Steinem, Gloria

  Stern (Ida’s roommate)

  Stevenson, Robert Louis

  Stickman’s Laughter (Algren)

  Stone, W. Clement

  The Story of an African Farm (Iron)

  Strachey, John

  Stracke, Win

  Strange Interlude (play)

  Stroheim, Erich von

  Strong, Charles

  Studebaker Theatre (Chicago)

  Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

  Studs’ Place (NBC-TV)

  Stuyvesant, Peter

  Sullivan, Louis

  Sumac, Yma

  Summer and Smoke (play)

  Sunday, Billy

  Swaggart, Jimmy

  Sykes, Roosevelt

  Sylvester, Long Shot

  Szilard, Leo

  T-Men in Action (TV)

  Talking to Myself (Terkel)

  Tarbell, Ida

  Taylor, Glen

  Taylor, Laurette

  Teagarden, Jack

  Teapot Dome scandal

  Tecumseh, ST story about

  Tefft, Sheldon

  Telegraph (newspaper)

  The Tempest (play)

  Terkel, Annie (mother)

  appearance/personality of

  death of

  and Ida

  immigration of

  marriage of

  as mother

  move to New York of

  moves to New York

  picture of

  as rooming house manager

  Sam’s relationship with

  as seamstress

  and Wells-Grand Hotel

  as Wells-Grand Hotel manager

  Terkel, Ben (brother)

  childhood of

  death of

  and Dreamland Ballroom

  and Helena Turner

  and Ida-Stud’s wedding

  picture of

  and prostitutes for Studs

  as protester

  Quinn’s talk with

  and Sam-Annie relationship

  and ST interest in politics

  ST memories of

  and Stauffers

  ST’s relationship with

  and ST’s wedding

  and Wells-Grand Hotel

  Terkel, Dan (son)

  Terkel, Fanny (aunt)

  Terkel, Ida (wife)

  and Ambassador dinner

  and Annie

  and bitterness rallies

  and characters in ST books

  courtship and wedding of

  death of

  favorite stories about

  and FBI

  and Minska’s visit

  and Pearl Hart

  personal and professional background of

  personality of

  and Rose Rigby

  and Royko

  as social worker

  ST memories of

  ST relationship with

  and ST in World War II,

  and Stud’s Place

  and train for March on Washington

  Terkel, Mary (sister-in-law)

  Terkel, Meyer (brother)

  and Annie’s move to New York

  and anti-Semitism

  as baseball fan

  childhood of

  as college student

  death of

  influence on ST of

  marriage of

  picture of

  and Sam-Annie relationship

  ST memories of

  ST visit with

  ST’s relationship with

  as teacher

  and Walsh as ST hero

  Terkel, Sam (father)

  Annie’s relationship with

  appearance/personality of

  death of

  Debs as hero of

  and elections of 1924

  health of

  immigration of

  marriage of

  picture of

  and Rambova

  and ST interest in politics

  ST relationship with

  as tailor

  and Wells-Grand Hotel

  Terkel, Sophie (sister-in-law)

  Terry, Peggy

  Terry, Sonny

  Theatre Guild

  They Knew What They Wanted (play)

  Thin Man (films)

  This Is Our Story (ST radio series)

  This Train (ST documentary)

  Thomas, John Parnell

  Thoreau, Henry David

  Thurmond, Strom

  Tillstrom, Burr

  Tils, Teddy

  Time magazine

  The Time ofYour Life (play)

  Titanic

  Tobacco Road (play)

  Today (NBC-TV)

  Tolstoy, Leo

  Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de

  Townsend, Freddie

  Tracy, Spencer

  Treasure Island (Chicago supermarket)

  Triangle Fire (New York City)

  Truman, Harry S.

  Truman, Margaret

  Truman College

  Trumbo, Dalton

  Tubman, Harriet

  Tugwell, Rexford

  Tuller, Frank

  Turner, Helena

  Twain, Mark

  U., Mike

  Uncle Win’s Animal Playtime (TV)

  Underwood, Oscar

  Unemployed Council. See Workers’ Alliance

  UNESCO
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  United Church of Christ Seminary (University of Chicago)

  United Nations

  University of Chicago

  atomic research at

  Law School

  School of Social Service Administration

  United Church of Christ Seminary

  University of Michigan

  Unrath, Jimmy

  US Steel

  Utterbach, Harold Hanson

  Valentino, Rudolph

  van der Rohe, Ludwig Mies

  van Gogh, Vincent

  Van (neighbor)

  van Zandt, Nina

  Vanzetti, Bartolomeo

  Vaughan, Sarah

  Vegetarians

  Vic and Sade (TV)

  Victoria Diner (Chicago)

  Vidal, Gore

  Vietnam

  Villa-Lobos, Heitor

  The Village Voice

  Voltaire

  Vonnegut, Kurt

  Wagner, I. J.

  WAIT radio

  Waiting for Lefty (play)

  Waldheim (Chicago cemetery)

  Walker, Jimmy

  Walker, Madame C. J.

  Wallace, George

  Wallace, Henry

  Wallace, Mike

  Walsh, Thomas

  Wambsganss, Bill “Wamby,”

  Ward, Solly

  Wardman Park Hotel Theatre (Washington)

  Warner, Bob

  Warner Brothers

  Washington, George

  Washington Civic Theater Group

  Washington Square (Chicago). See Bughouse Square

  The Wax Museum (radio show)

  Wayne, John

  WCFL (Chicago radio)

  We Deliver the Goods (radio series)

  Weaver, Pat

  Weber, Palmer

  Weil, Yellow Kid

  Weinberg, Sidney J.

  Welles, Orson

  Wells, Ida B.

  Wells-Grand Hotel (Chicago)

  description of

  guests of

  play posters in

  Sam leases

  Sam as manager of

  as SRO

  and ST in Air Force

  ST childhood and youth at

  ST “education” at

  and ST as oral historian

  ST return visit to

  See also specific person

  Wendorf, Cholly

  Wexley, John

  WFMT radio

  WGN radio

  Wheatstraw, Peatie

  Wheeler, Burton K.

  White, Pearl

  Whitman, Walt

  Wilde, Oscar

  Will the Circle be Unbroken (Terkel)

  Willard, Jess

  Williams, Aubrey

  Williams, Claude

  Williams, Freddy

  Williams, Tennessee

  Willie the Weeper

  Wills, Garry

  Wilson, Woodrow

  Winant, John

  Winfrey, Oprah

  Winston-Salem, North Carolina

  Winterset (play)

  Wolfe, Thomas

  Wolff, Mary Lou

  Woman in White (soap opera)

  Workers’ Alliance (aka Unemployed Council)

  Workers’ Theater (Chicago)

  Working (Terkel)

  Works Progress Administration (WPA)

  World Series

  World War I,

  World War II,

  World’s Fair (Chicago, 1933–34)

  Wray, Fay

  Wright, Frank Lloyd

  Wright, Richard

  Wrigley, P. K.

  Wrigley building (Chicago)

  Writers’ Project (WPA)

  Yale University

  Yeats, William Butler

  Yerby, Frank

  You Have Seen Their Faces (MacLeish)

  You Know Me, Al (Lardner)

  Young Lords

  Younger, Beverly

  Zerbst, Fred

  1 A pioneer of modern anthropology; often referred to as “the father of American anthropology.”

  2 The Silent Clowns by Walter Kerr (Knopf, 1975).

  3 Mateo Falcone is the hero of a short story of the same name by Prospero Merimee (who wrote the libretto for Carmen). Falcone shoots his beloved young son, who has betrayed a fugitive hiding in their barn.

  4 Parts excerpted from Chicago (Pantheon, 1985 and 1986).

  5 The celebrated opera singer who came from Annie’s hometown of Bialystok.

  6 And They All Sang (The New Press, 2005, pp. 73–74).

  7 Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (University of Illinois Press, 1982, p. 328).

  8 The scandal involved the leasing of oil-rich pieces of land in Wyoming and California to private interests. Harding’s Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, went to the pokey; so did his multimillion-dollar buddy, Frank Doheny. What is astonishing in the midst of all this corruption is that President Harding took it upon himself to pardon Gene Debs, who still had about five years to go on his prison term. Cal Coolidge, Harding’s VP, said nothing. In fact, Silent Cal was so silent that Dorothy Parker is reputed to have said on learning that Coolidge had died, “How can they tell?” The loss of money to small investors in the Teapot Dome scandal was considerable, but peanuts compared to Enron. Tom Walsh had been irreproachable as prosecutor of Teapot Dome. Ironically, he died shortly after the convention. Otherwise, he would have been Roosevelt’s choice for attorney general.

  9 Carey McWilliams, at the time commissioner of immigration for California.

  10 Hard Times (The New Press, 1986, pp. 72–73).

  11 Bernard MacFadden published a scandalous tabloid, the Telegraph. One of its memorable exposés concerned the teenaged Peaches and her Daddy Browning. Peaches’ Ma approved.

  12 Primarily transient workman who went from one railroad to another.

  13 An old pool hall phrase meaning “per game.”

  14 In the 1840s there were numerous rebellions in Middle European countries among those seeking independence and thus a better world. They were henceforth known as the “Failed ’48ers.”

  15 Château-Thierry was the site of one of the first American actions against the Germans in World War I.

  16 Death in the Haymarket by James Green (Pantheon, 2006).

  17 Tank Johnson, a player for the Chicago Bears, spent several scandalous weeks in the headlines, charged with weapons possession, aggravated assault, and resisting arrest.

  18 Adapted from Talking to Myself (The New Press, 1995).

  19 One of three hundred medieval Border Ballads collected by Francis Child, Harvard Philologist.

  20 His father was known as Hot Stove Jimmy Quinn, back in the days of Hinky Dink and Bathhouse John early in the century. His father, sitting at the hot stove, named guys he thought should be mayor.

  21 In DC, I was the one heterosexual that was accepted at the Deck. And since then? Better than any of the grandest of prizes, I’m in the Lesbian and Gay Hall of Fame of writers—one of the few heterosexuals, perhaps the only one. I also may be the only white in the Hall of Fame of Black Writers. There was a gathering of black writers, and Haki Madhubuti mentioned my name. They all looked up, “Studs?! But he’s not African American, he’s white.” Haki said, “He’s white genetically, but he’s ours spiritually.” I made those two halls of fame, which ain’t half bad.

  22 The same reviewer who said of Margaret Truman’s celebrated vocal engagement, “Better she remain a vice president’s daughter,” to which Harry Truman replied, “I’m going to punch him in the nose.”

  23 Talking to Myself (The New Press, 1995, p. 150).

  24 When the war came along, everyone split up and went different places. Some to the West Coast, others to the East. Charlie DeSheim went to New York and became a member of the Group Theater. He was Nick the bartender in William Saroyan’s The Time of Your Life. Charlie was big—he had an Orson Welles–type contract to go to Hollywood, but he caught phlebitis and died. William Saroyan spoke at his services.


  25 Ida always called me Louis, never Studs. The nickname came about during my first appearance in Waiting for Lefty. Two other guys in the cast were named Louis, which made for some confusion. At the time, I was entranced by the writings of James T. Farrell and his Studs Lonigan trilogy. Everyone started calling me Studs.

  26 Circuit riders were traveling preachers in the mountain country. They’d stop wherever there was a church, white or black. Their interpretation of the Bible was as a workingman’s book.

  27 The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream (Pantheon, 1988, p. 106).

  28 Also in the group: the great educator Myles Horton, head of Highlander Folk School; Aubrey Williams, an inspiring Southerner, head of the National Youth Administration; and a preacher by the name of Claude Williams, who brought a real Christ of flesh and blood, an organizer, to churches when he organized the tobacco workers—he was tarred and feathered at times, too.

  29 Talking to Myself(The New Press, 1995, pp. 127–129).

  30 Jan was the son of the Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal, who wrote An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy and whose later books were being published by André Schiffrin at Pantheon.

  31 Chicago has many Appalachians, mountain people, poor whites, as well as a tremendous number of Southern blacks—the inner migration.

  32 Working has now sold over a million copies in various editions. (Ed.)

  33 Helene, a good swimmer, drowned trying to save some children in Lake Michigan.

  34 From Division Street:America (The New Press, 2006, p. 71).

  35 From Division Street:America (The New Press, 2006, p. 63).

  36 From Division Street: America (The New Press, 2006, p. 69).

  37 From Division Street: America (The New Press, 2006, p. 326).

  38 From Division Street:America (The New Press, 2006, p. 325).

  39 From Division Street: America (The New Press, 2006, p. 327).

  40 From Division Street: America (The New Press, 2006, p. 330).

  41 Ida is named Eileen Barth in Hard Times.

  42 Talking to Myself (The New Press, 1995, p. 336).

  43 She is called Lucy Jefferson in Hard Times.

  44 Division Street:America (The New Press, 1993, p. 14).

  45 Dr. Marvin Jackson is currently Flight Surgeon, midwestern region of the FAA.

 

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