Bennett, Constance, 110
Benoit, Hubert, 434
Benton, Walter: This Is My Beloved, 455
Bercovici, Konrad, 673; The Volga Boatmen, 398n
Bergen, George, 85–6
Berger, Klaus, 186, 188, 200–1
Berger, René, 393
Bergman, Ingrid, 115, 134–5, 530, 533, 563, 623n
Bergner, Elisabeth, 216, 317
Berkman, Sylvia: Katherine Mansfield, 435n
Berle, Milton, 147–8
Berlin: C.I. visits (1952), 442n; 1958 crisis, 804
Berman, Eugene, 544
Bermuda, 444–5, 702
Bernanos, Georges, 398, 400
Bernard, Theos, 156
Berns, Walter, 394
Bernstein, Morey: The Search for Bridey Murphy, 611n
Berthold see Viertel, Berthold
Besant, Annie, 345, 373
Best, Edna, 390
Bhagavad Gita, xviii–xix, xxi, 240, 252, 305, 307, 328–9, 333, 348, 350, 352, 354
Bhagavatam Purana, 703
Bieler, Dr., 895
Big Store, The (film), 130
Bigelow, Mr. (of Haverford), 184
Bigelow, Paul, 479
Biggi, Andrew, 773
Bill see Caskey, William; Kiskadden, William Sherrill
Birmingham Hospital, San Fernando Valley, California, 388, 394
Black, Steve, 838
Blackwood, Lady Caroline see Freud, Lady Caroline
Blanc-Roos, Esther, 218, 226
Blanc-Roos, Kate: suicide, 315
Blanc-Roos, René, 218, 226–7, 230–1, 315
Blanch, Lesley (Mrs. Romain Gary), 727–8, 754–5, 895
Blixen, Karen, Baroness (Isak Dinesen), 800
Bloch, Dorothy, 210, 218
Bloom, Claire, 721
Blow, Emmett, 599, 671
Blumenthal (of Columbia Pictures), 362
Blumenthal, Mrs. (of Hollywood), 119
Blunden, Edmund, 828
Blunk, J.B., 728
Bob see Craft, Robert
Bobo, Wallace, 421, 745
Bogart, Betty see Bacall, Lauren
Bogart, Humphrey, 330, 498–9, 504; death, 675
Bogotá, Colombia, 398–9
Bok, Ben: and Peggy, 33; conjuring, 62; and Derek, 117, 238; character, 237; pet dog, 239, 251; drums, 251–3; C.I. looks after, 257–8; and mother’s divorce, 257; parties, 260; drinking, 261; on “Swamitage” (Vedanta Center), 266; and mother’s attachment to Kiskadden, 301, 322; arthritis in back, 332–3, 347; graduates from Harvard Military Academy, 347; marriage, 393
Bok, Coral: marriage to Ben, 393
Bok, Derek (“Dek”): and Peggy, 33; conjuring, 62; and Ben, 117, 237–8; chatter, 117; clarinet, 251; garden hut, 253; and mother’s divorce, 257; on “Swamitage” (Vedanta Center), 322; at military parade, 347; at C.I. party, 390; marriage, 486, 489
Bok, Edward: The Americanization of Edward Bok, 33
Bok, Sissela (née Myrdal; Derek’s wife), 486
Bok, Judge W. Curtis, 33, 238, 347
Bok, Welmoet (“Tis”), 33, 113, 232, 257–8, 260–1
Boland, Bridget: The Prisoner, 610n
Bonaparte, Miss Dicky, 30–1
Boon, John Allen, 160–1, 178, 450
Boone, Pat, 796
Booth, Shirley, 596
Booz, Donald, 166, 169, 172
Borel, Ray, 400
Borgnine, Ernest, 609
Botteghe Oscura (magazine), 548, 808
Bouverie (Alice Bouverie’s widower), 720
Bowen, Elizabeth: The Heat of the Day, 410
Bowen, Marjorie: Black Magic, 738
Bower, Tony: friendship and meetings with C.I., 99–101, 118, 132, 236; at Laguna Beach, 99, 250; and Chris Wood, 119; and Denny Fouts, 123; on yoga, 140; and John Dickinson, 208–9, 236; in army, 231; Horizon article, 364–5; as model for Ronny in “Paul” (C.I.), 891
Bowles, Jane, 539, 545–6
Bowles, Paul, xli, 539, 541–7, 785, 801
Box Office (trade magazine), 80, 131
Boyer, Charles, 25
Brackett, Charlie: and van Druten’s relations with Dodie Smith, 457; friendship and meetings with C.I., 494, 504, 509, 521, 600, 649, 706, 794, 808–9, 880; and Harry Brown, 500, 534; shows film, 509, 518; Dodie Smith praises friendship, 568; Speed Lamkin on, 599; film of The King and I, 624; C.I. believes rejected by, 628; calls off visit to C.I., 636; requests film rights to Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle, 661; and van Druten’s heart attack, 661
Brackett, Elizabeth (“Beau”), 521
Brackett, Muff: friendship and meetings with C.I., 494–5, 504, 509, 521, 600, 649, 808–9, 880; and Don Bachardy, 518; and Harry Brown, 534; C.I. believes rejected by, 628; calls off visit to C.I., 636; and Marguerite Lamkin, 740; at Millard’s, 794
Bradbury, Ray, 786, 868, 900
Bradley, Alan, 574
Bradshaw, George, 387, 394
Bradshaw, John, ix
Brahm, John, 503
Brahman, 127–8
Brahmananda Cottage, Hollywood, 263, 266, 270
Brahmananda, Swami (Maharaj): Prabhavananda’s devotion to, 127, 253–4, 291, 294, 343–4, 478, 656–7, 703, 725, 761, 791, 811, 846; birthday, 261; Annie Besant and, 373; on grace, 664, 743; puja, 684; and Shankarananda, 729; in C.I. dream, 753–4
Brame, Bill, 747
Brando, Marlon, 466, 498–9, 837, 854
Brecht, Bertolt, 90n, 312, 317–20; The Caucasian Chalk Circle, 339–40; Dreigroschenroman (Three Penny Novel), 648n; The Good Woman of Szechwan, 857; The Seven Deadly Sins, 648
Brecht, Helene see Weigel, Helene
Brecht, Stefan, 307, 312, 318, 320, 370
Breen, Joseph, 478
Breese, Eleanor (“Eleanor Buckles”), 648–9, 655–6, 659–60, 662–3, 669–71, 674, 696, 708
Breese, Vance: takes C.I. flying, 655–9, 662; Eleanor considers remarrying, 659, 662–3, 669; C.I. visits, 662–3; Eleanor returns to, 674, 708; offers to take C.I. to Tahiti, 686; manner, 696, 708
Brent, Geraldine, 899
Brentano, Klemens, 312
Brett, Dorothy, 429–30, 712; Lawrence and Brett, 113
Brice, Fanny, 110n
Bridges, James, 705, 853
Brien, Donald, 219, 228
British War Relief fund, 103, 107, 111
Britneva, Maria, 479
Britten, Benjamin, 206, 387, 391, 394, 403, 417n; Albert Herring, 393; Peter Grimes, 393
Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre, 325; Villette, 555
Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights, 555, 824
Brook, Peter, 594
Brooke, Tim, 410–11, 808–9
Brooks, Richard, 466, 492, 848n
Brossard, Ernie, 756
Brown, Mr. (of San Francisco Vedanta Center), 323
Brown, David, 616, 640, 657, 663, 709, 779; The Barbarian and the Geisha, 634, 638, 650
Brown, Edmund Gerald (Governor of California), 844–5, 854
Brown, H. Runham, 15
Brown, Harry: marriage to Marguerite Lamkin, 450, 480, 484, 494; and Don Bachardy, 490; behavior, 498–9, 505, 513, 518; marriage difficulties, 499–501, 505–6, 511, 513, 521; divorce, 514, 520, 524; and Henrietta Ledebur, 518; hospitalized, 525–6, 528; drunkenness, 534, 601; regrets divorce, 601; relations with June de Baum, 621, 630, 657, 659, 690, 707, 718; and C.I.’s hepatitis, 622; C.I. rejects, 628; friendship and meetings with C.I., 659, 675, 690, 707, 718; on Spender’s visit to New York, 660; gives up drink, 690; Charles Locke on, 699; at C.I. party, 740; works on Tender Is the Night, 752
Brown, Captain Horace, 618
Brown, Marguerite see Lamkin, Marguerite
Brown, Walter see Yogi
Brown, Mrs. Walter see Yogini
Bruce (naval air gunner), 279, 336–7
Bruckberger, Father Raymond Leopold, 748
Brush, Albert, 390
Bry, Doris, 431
Bryan, Michael, 857
Brynner, Witter, 476
Brynner, Yul, 653
Buchs, Mr. (Haverford refugee), 210, 215
Buckingham, Robert, 391, 569, 656
Buckles, Eleanor see Breese, Eleanor
Buddha: C.I. works on film life of, xl, 470, 477, 481–2, 492, 500, 516, 529
Buddha Chaitanya see Griggs, Philip
Bulganin, Nikolai A., 511
Buñuel, Luis, 771n
Burczinsky, Hank, 417
Burgess, Guy, 391, 580, 584
Burke, Marie Louise: Swami Vivekananda in America, 765
Burke, Walter, 716
Burnett, Don, 531
Bums, Miss (nurse), 688
Bums, George, 720, 724, 727, 731
Bums, Phil, 762, 783, 793
Bums, Ronnie, 727
Bums, Willy, 720, 724, 727, 731
Burra, Edward, 392
Burton, Ivor and Gwen, 828
Burton, Richard, 578, 592, 721, 805, 814, 828–9
Burton, Sybil (Richard’s wife), 814n
Bus Stop (film), 612
Butterfield 8 (film), 838
Bynner, Witter, 713
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron, 781
Cabaret, Gaston, 357
Cabell, James Branch, The Cream of the Jest, 96
Cabral, Mr. (of Adelaide Drive), 827
Cadbury, Leah (later Furtmueller), 187, 198, 200, 207, 214, 220–1, 223, 226–7
Cadmus, Paul, 208–9, 212, 277–8, 302, 386, 392, 537, 597, 672
Caffery, James, 546
Calbeck, Margaret, 166, 174
Calder-Marshall, Arthur: Occasion of Glory, 886–7
Caldwell, Evelyn see Hooker, Evelyn
Calhoun, Tom, 832, 838
California: C.I. first visits, 14, 16, 20
“California Story” (C.I.) see “Shore, The”
California Stylist (magazine), 816, 819
Callas, Maria, 555, 557
Cambridge: C.I. deliberately fails exams at, xi, xiii; C.I. visits, 581–3
Camille (film), 761
Camp Upton, Long Island, 209
Campbell, Dean, 853
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, 110
Campbell, Sandy, 386, 392
Capote, Truman: C.I. visits, 386, 392; Vidal and, 401; and Marguerite Lamkin, 485; in New York, 671, 673, 801; Don Bachardy writes to, 768; C.I. seeks financial advice from, 808; C.I. hopes to visit (1959), 822
Capri, 548, 559n
Carlson, Evans, 104–5
Caro, Frederick, 185, 191, 200, 206, 208, 221, 286
Caron, Leslie, 533, 725
Carroll, Earl, 180
Carroll, John, 8
Carter see Lodge, Carter
Cary, Joyce, 673
Casablanca, 257n
Caskey, Catherine (William’s mother), 394, 413–14, 438–9, 489
Caskey, William: relations with C.I., xxii—xxviii, xxxiv—xxxvi, 388, 390–1, 392, 394, 408, 411–16, 419, 424, 429, 431–8, 440–1, 449, 451–2, 456, 466, 470–2, 489–90, 500, 515–16, 597, 781, 789, 839; quarrels with Fouts, xxiii, 384; in New York with C.I., xxiv; photographic work, xxiv, 387–8, 397, 411; travels with C.I., xxiv, xxxvi, 376, 384, 386, 389–91, 393, 394–7, 399, 401–5, 471–2; possible drafting in Korean War, xxvi, 424, 433; behavior, xxvii, 466, 506, 520, 679; joins merchant marine, xxxv, 388, 442n, 453, 493; C.I. meets, 383; studies photography, 384, 391; in California, 393, 406–9; travelers’ checks stolen, 393; leaves for Florida, 394, 415; writes novel on Bill Harris, 395; practicality, 407; and mother, 413–14, 438; attacks Bill Kennedy, 425; and Stravinsky, 426; at Hearsts’, 432; tells story of Rio carnival, 452; owes money to C.I., 458, 812; starts business beading sweaters, 465, 489, 494; jealousy of Don Bachardy, 470; illness, 489; leaves for Italy, 506; sells pictures, 516; owns Inez Johnson painting, 522; coal mining in Montana, 525; character, 575; Don Bachardy reads C.I. letters to, 614; property, 635, 661; C.I. loses ring from, 647; in Pasadena, 666; and C.I.’s will, 675; Spender meets, 812
Castillo, Leo, 886
Castro, Jorge de, 393
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 218, 648n
Cerf, Bennett, 9, 11, 362
Chakravarty, Dr., 708
Chamberlain, Neville, 81n
Champlain (French liner), xi, 3, 5, 7–8
Chance, Harold, 165, 171, 181
Chandler, Raymond, 673–4, 676–7; The Little Sister, 850
Chantal, Jane Frances, Baroness de, 440
Chaplin, Charlie: acts in The Great Dictator, 69–70, 86; C.I. meets, 85–6, 378, 391; and Duke of Windsor, 85–6; portrait stolen, 85–6; marriage to Lita Grey, 130; handwriting read, 144–5; and Paulette Goddard scandal, 144; meets Berle at Catalina, 147; marriage to Oona, 378; at Salka Viertel party, 425; Dylan Thomas meets, 461, 534; refuses to see C.I., 594
Chaplin, Oona (née O’Neill), 378, 425, 461, 534
Chaplin, Sid, 131
Chapman, Kent, 734, 761, 795; “The End of Everything,” 710
Chappel, Edward, 834–5
Char, René, 735
Charlton, Hilde, 744, 802, 809, 861, 896
Charlton, Jim: relations with C.I., 387–8, 393, 406, 408, 410, 435, 439, 441–2, 450–1, 496, 515–16, 535, 610, 645, 647, 666, 698, 702, 743–4, 776, 798, 802, 817, 849–50, 853, 896; in police raid at Variety, 394, 418n; C.I. describes, 416–17; likes Evelyn Caldwell, 424; C.I. stays with, 427–8; drinking, 448; designs house for C.I., 449; owes money to C.I., 458, 524, 610, 742; and Bill Caskey, 489–90; Speed Lamkin on, 507; visits C.I., 531; C.I. visits, 599; as architect, 610, 625, 629, 631, 702; helps C.I. move to Sycamore Road, 613; and paper “Judas” (baseball player), 614; provokes bad luck, 625; appearance, 631; qualifies as architect, 638; and Masselinks, 698, 702; marriage, 734, 744, 798, 802, 809; children, 742, 779; at Ivan Moffat’s, 860; and Tennessee Williams, 861
Chase, Ilka, 494–5
Chase, Pliny, 223
Chase, Richard: “The Huxley–Heard Paradise,” 282, 284
Chatterton, Ruth, 14
Chayevsky, Paddy, 518
Chekhov, Anton, 874; The Seagull, 893n; Three Sisters, 893; Uncle Vanya, 893
Chekhov, Michael, 346
Chertok, Jack, 159–60
Chessman, Caryl, 836, 844, 851, 854
Chesterton, G. K., 629
Chiang Kai-shek, 6, 466n
China: C.I. visits, xi, 3, 5–6
Chisholm, Bridget, 97–8, 107, 114–15, 137, 157
Chisholm, Hugh, 97–8, 107, 110, 114, 137, 157, 208, 552, 611, 670
Chisholm, Mrs. (Hugh’s mother), 173
chitta, 112
Chopin, Frédéric: proposed film on, 94–6
Chouinard Art Institute: Don Bachardy attends, 600, 621, 626–8, 635, 692; costume ball, 656–8; Don Bachardy exhibits at, 810
Chris see Wood, Chris
Christians, Mady, 148
Christopher and His Kind (C.I.), x–xii, xxix–xxx, xlvii, 423n
Churchill, (Sir) Winston, 132, 136, 293–4, 511, 768–9
Ciano, Count Galeazzo, 97
Civilian Conservation Corps, 138; see also San Dimas camp
Civilian Public Service Camp (CPS), xvi, 138, 261, 310
Clark, Glen, 104
Clark, Mary, 530
Clark, Sir Kenneth (later Baron), 559
Claxton, Bill, 798
Clayton, Jan, 860, 865
Clements, John, 591
Clerc, Michel, 706
Clerk, Bronson, 219
Clift, Montgomery, 518, 615, 632, 647–9, 727
Clifton, Al, 323, 344
Clurman, Harold, 538
Coates (upholsterer), 688
Cockburn, Claude, 384
Cocteau, Jean, 416, 437, 558, 560
Cohn, Dr. Theodore, 538
Colby, Anita, 755
Coleman (of van company), 829
Coleman, Martyn, 553
Colette, 560; The Vagabond, 489
Coley, Tom, 495
Collier, Constance, 86
Collier, John, 451–2, 509
Collins, Wilkie: The Woman in White, 383, 390
Colman, Ro
nald, 57, 390
Columbia: unrest in, 398–9
“Coming to London” (C.I.; article), 614
Condor and the Cows, The (C.I.; travel book), xxiv–v, xlv, 386–7, 393, 407–8, 410
Connolly, Cyril: co-edits Horizon, 77; and C.I.’s possible return to England, 364; C.I. meets in USA, 391; C.I. sees in England, 391, 403, 405; Barbara Skelton leaves, 513; marital troubles, 568; Enemies of Promise, 832
Connolly, Jean, 118–19, 123, 209
Connolly, Michael, 877
Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo, 395; “The Secret Sharer” (story), 503, 670–1, 674
Conrad, Ruth, 855n
Conway, Steve, 383, 390
Coogan, Jackie, 603
Coolidge, Calvin, 767
Coombs, Don, 388
Cooper, Gladys, 86–7, 828
Cooper, Jackie, 130
Cooper, Wyatt, 867–8, 875, 878–9
Cooperative College Workshop, Haverford, 181–96
Corbin, Ella see Amiya
Cornelius, Henry, 465n
Cornell, Ed, 625
Corvo, Baron see Rolfe, Frederick William
Costidy, Sam: relations with C.I., 388, 443–9; in Bermuda with C.I., 443, 702; and Tom Wright, 450; and Lansing, 628
Costigan, James, 613, 767
Cotten, Joseph, 877
Cotten, Lenore, 509, 687, 720, 757, 819, 877
Council of Churches, 878
Cowan, Rita, 770
Coward, Noël, 5, 273n, 386, 392
Cox, Betsy, 477, 492, 495, 521, 533
Cozzens, James Gould: By Love Possessed, 720–1
CPS camp see Civilian Public Service camp
Craft, Robert: C.I. meets, 387; and Korean War, 426; memorial concert for Dylan Thomas, 468; visits C.I., 690, 845, 866; and Stravinsky, 698, 735, 748, 763, 820, 866; orchestral conducting, 704, 816; at Don Bachardy’s birthday party, 752; overweight, 816; hurts arm, 820; ageing, 845; proposes C.I. narrating for Stravinsky composition, 847; book of conversations with Stravinsky, 848, 850; Don Bachardy draws, 848–9; hepatitis, 849; visits Heard, 855
Craig, Gordon, 554, 556
Cramer, Anne, 674
Crane (of Box Office magazine), 80–1
Crane, Cheryl, 745
Crankshaw, Edward, 567
Crawford, Joan, 115, 142, 498
Crippen, Hawley Harvey, 699
Critchfield, Kenneth (Arup), 409, 413, 446, 453, 852
Cromwell, Dick (Roy Radebaugh), 506
Crosby, Bing, 795
Crossroads (film), 151
Crowley, Aleister, 550, 558
Cruzeman (journalist), 825
Cukor, George, 58, 383, 390, 520, 808
Culver, Roland, 390
Cummings, Robert, 148
Cummins, Peggy, 565
Curtiss, Mina, 139, 392, 792, 800
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