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INDEX OF NAMES
This index lists the names of every person appearing in the book (except for those mentioned in the anecdotes set in small type). Boldface type indicates those persons who have anecdotes of their own. These persons may also be mentioned in other persons’ anecdotes, and this is indicated by an indented name. Those persons whose names are set in lightface type appear only in other persons’ anecdotes. Numbers refer to anecdotes, not pages. Thus:
Lamb, Charles
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 3, 7
Elliston, Robert W., 1
Wordsworth, William, 2
means that Charles Lamb has anecdotes under his own name, and he is mentioned in anecdotes 3 and 7 for Samuel Taylor Coleridge, anecdote 1 for Robert W. Elliston, and anecdote 2 for William Wordsworth.
Aaron, Henry “Hank”
Abbey, Edwin A.
Sargent, John Singer, 1
Abdul Hamid III
John, Augustus, 1
Aberconway, Lady
Walton, Sir William, 2
Abernethy, John
Acheson, Dean
Acton, Harold
Waugh, Evelyn, 1
Adam, William
Fox, Charles James, 2
Adams, Abigail
John Adams, 3
Adams, Alexander
Adams, Ansel
Adams, Franklin P.
Ross, Harold, 7
Adams, Henry
Adams, John
Jefferson, Thomas, 13
Adams, John Quincy
Addams, Jane
Addison, Joseph
Ade, George
Adee, Alvey A.
Adenauer, Konrad
Adler, Hermann
Adler, Mortimer
Stein, Gertrude, 7
Adler, Stella
Clurman, Harold, 1, 2
Adolf of Sweden
Baker, Josephine, 1
Aeschylus
Agassiz, Jean Louis
Agate, James
Braithwaite, Dame Lilian, 2
Agesilaus
Henri IV, 5
Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius
Julia, 1
Agrippina
Nero, 1
Aidan, St.
Albemarle, William
Albert, Prince
Victoria, 5, 6, 7, 8, 17
Albert, Eugène d’
Albertus Magnus Aquinas, St. Thomas, 1
Alcibiades
Alcott, Bronson
Eddy, Mary Baker, 1
Alcott, Louisa May
Alcott, May
Alcott, Bronson, 1
Alderberry, Stanley of
Churchill, Randolph, 2
Alembert, Jean d’
Hume, David, 4
Voltaire, 13
Alençon, Sophie-Charlotte d’
Alexander I
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, 8
Alexander III
Maria Federovna, 1
Alexander III (the Great)
Anaximenes, 1
Apelles, 1
Diogenes, 1, 3, 6
Alexander VI
Alexander, Sir George
Alexander, Grover Cleveland
Alexander, Harold
Alexander, Samuel
Alexandra, Queen
Alfano, Franco
Toscanini, Arturo, 4
Alfonso X
Alfonso XIII
Alfred the Great
Algren, Nelson
Ali, Muhammad
Allais, Alphonse
Allen, Dick
Allen, Ethan
Allen, Fred
Allen, Gracie
Burns, George, 1
Allen, Woody
Allingham, Margery
Al-Malik al-Kamil
Francis of Assisi, 1
Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence
Altenberg, Peter
Altman, Robert
Alvanley, William
Ambrose, St.
Ammonius
Amory, Cleveland
Hepburn, Katharine, 1
‘Amr Ibn Al-as
‘Omar, 1
Anaxagoras
Anaximenes
Anders, William
Andersen, Hans Christian
Hugo, Victor, 3
Anderson, Margaret
Heap, Jane, 1
Anderson, Sherwood
Anderson, Sparky
Rose, Pete, 1, 2
Andre, Major John
Andrew, Agnellus
Angelsey, Marquess of
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 7
Anglin, Margaret
Fiske, Minnie Maddern, 1
Anne, Princess
Anne of Cleves
Henry VIII, 2
Antheil, George
Anthony, Marc
Anthony, Susan B.
Antisthenes
Apelles
Aquinas, St. Thomas
Arbuthnot, John
Swift, Jonathan, 1
Archelaus
Archer, George
Archer, William
Archimedes
Arditi, Luigi
Aretino, Pietro
Tintoretto, 1
Titian, 1
Argyll, Duke of
Tennyson, Alfred, 1
Aristides
Aristippus
Diogenes, 4
Arlen, Michael
Armour, Philip
Armour, Mrs. Philip
Lillie, Beatrice, 2
Armstrong, Louis
Armstrong, Neil
Arne, Thomas
Arnim, Harry von
Arno, Peter
Arnold, Matthew
Arnould, Sophie
Galiani, Ferdinando, 1
Arria
Arundell, Isabel
Burton, Sir Richard, 1, 2
Asche, Oscar
Ashcroft, Peggy
Gielgud, John, 1
Asoka
Asquith, Herbert
Asquith, Cynthia
Elizabeth II, 1
Asquith, Margot
Balfour, Arthur James, 1
Asquith, Violet
Churchill, Winston, 5
Astaire, Fred
Astaire, Phyllis
Astaire, Fred, 3
Astor, John Jacob
Astor, Lady
Stalin, Joseph, 1
Astor, Mary
Kaufman, George S., 12
Astor, Nancy
Churchill, Winston, 7
Astruc, Gabriel
Stravinsky, Igor, 1
Atkinson, Christopher
Atlas, Charles
Attlee, Clement
Churchill, Winston, 29
Atwater, Edith
Hart, Moss, 1
Atwater, Lee
Quayle, J. Danforth, 1
Auber, Daniel
Aubernon, Euphrasie
Aubigné, Henri d’
Auchinleck, Claude
Wavell, Archibald Percival, 1
Auden, W. H.
Eliot, T. S., 5
McCullers, Carson, 3
Auerbach, “Red”
Augustine, St.
Augustus, Gaius
Anthony, Marc, 1
Julia, 2, 3, 4
Aumale, Henry d’
Ferdinand I, 1
Austin, Alfred
Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 1
Austin, Warren
Avempace
Avery, Oswald
Aymé, Marcel
Azeglio, Massimo d’
Babbage, Charles
Bacall, Lauren
Baccaloni, Salvatore
Bing, Rudolf, 1
Bach, C. P. E.
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Landowska, Wanda, 1
Bacon, Baron Francis
Bader, Sir Douglas
Baeyer, Johann von
Bahr, Hermann
Baignières, Mme.
Aubernon, Euphrasie, 1
Bailly, Jean Sylvain
Baker, Josephine
Baker, Newton D.
Ross, Harold, 1
Baker, Russell
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 2
Bakst, Léon
Balanchine, George
Stravinsky, Igor, 10
Baldwin, Stanley
Churchill, Winston, 11
Balfour, Arthur James
Clemenceau, Georges, 7
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