The Jews in America Trilogy
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176
“In certain strata”: ibid., p. 133.
177
“enable the social life”: quoted in New York Times, Oct. 6, 1982.
178–80
Details of City College: Howe, pp. 280–283.
8. MINSTRELS AND MINSTRELSY
182
Carrie Jacobs Bond story: Woollcott, pp. 130–132.
184
Pelham Café: ibid., pp. 40–43, 46.
185
Berlin’s musical ability: ibid., pp. 35, 37.
185
Prince Louis: ibid., p. 51.
186
“about an Italian girl”: Mary Ellin Berlin Barrett to author.
186
“I suppose you’ve got a tune”: Woollcott, pp. 71–72.
187
Michigan: ibid., p. 77.
188
“whattle”: ibid., p. 76.
188
Appraisals of Berlin’s music: International Celebrity Register (New York: Celebrity Register Ltd., 1959), p. 73.
189–90
Jewish performers: Howe, pp. 556–558; Bermant, pp. 84, 100.
192
Douglas Fairbanks’s Jewish mother: Frances Howard Goldwyn to author.
192
Jewish performers who changed their names: Siegel and Rheins, pp. 14–16.
9. HIGH ROLLERS
195–208
Details of Sam Goldwyn’s life and career: Frances Howard Goldwyn (Mrs. Samuel) to author.
196
“Is Sunday a legal day?”: ibid.
199
“the most colossal fake”: ibid.
200
“And this time for good”: ibid.
201
“A producer should not be hampered”: International Celebrity Register (New York: Celebrity Register Ltd., 1959), p. 297.
202
“Mr. Godsol is no longer with us”: ibid.
202
“because Metro isn’t”: Frances Goldwyn to author.
202
“Leo is my birth sign”: ibid.
208
“quality … clean things can be done”: ibid.
210–11
Lansky’s modus operandi: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, pp. 91–92.
211
Profits: Gosch and Hammer, p. 74.
211–12
Prohibition statistics and arrests: Newman, p. 83.
212–13
The numbers game: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, p. 150; Gosch and Hammer, p. 75.
213
Laundering money: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, pp. 250–251.
213
“It was like we had a printin’ press”: Gosch and Hammer, p. 367.
213–14
Bronfman’s modus operandi: Based on author’s experiences while working in an advertising agency for Seagram’s.
214
Bronfman quoted on types of liquor: Samuel Bronfman to author.
215
Bronfman’s social climbing: Newman, pp. 24–25.
216
“Our company”: ibid., p. 62.
218
The second Mrs. Stokes: Lettice Stokes to author.
219
“language instructor”: New York Times, June 21, 1933.
10. LITTLE CAESARS
222
Class change and anxiety: W. H. Auden’s introduction to Yezierska’s Ribbon, pp. 16, 15.
222–23
Bronfman’s temper: author’s experience.
223
“I don’t get ulcers”: Newman, p. 29.
223
“The damn fool”: ibid., p. 39.
224
“It’s expensive!”: ibid., p. 40.
224
“Mary”: ibid., p. 33.
224
“I don’t want my sister to know”: ibid., p. 40n.
224
“Interest … office boy”: Samuel Bronfman to author.
225
“Imagine the secrets”: O’Higgins, p. 50.
226
bought the building: ibid., p. 58.
226
“Stella’s, of course!”: ibid., p. 105.
227
The Lehman Brothers story: ibid., pp. 93–95.
227–33
The Goldwyn stories, Goldwynisms, and so on: based on author’s interviews with Frances Howard Goldwyn, George Cukor, Roddy McDowell, Sam Marx, Ira Gershwin, Lucille Ball, Lillian Hellman, Minna Wallis and others.
233
“I have in mind a plan”: Lyons, p. 71.
235
The Dempsey fight: ibid., pp. 100–101; Dreher, pp. 72–73.
236
Corporate jealousies: Lyons, pp. 90–91.
236
“on the bridge”: ibid., p. 11.
236
“birth of the electron”: ibid., p. 14.
238–39
“Woe to America!”: Yezierska, Ribbon, pp. 216–217.
11. DEALS
241–42
Aging whiskey: Newman, p. 133n.
242
Price of Rossville distillery: ibid., p. 134.
243
The naming of Seven Crown: Dr. Isaac Levine (son of Calman Levine) to author.
244
“I always like to have money”: ibid.
244n.
“Very Own”: Newman, p. 107n.
245
Men of Distinction: ibid., p. 137n.
245
Morgenthau and the tax bill: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, p. 80; Newman, p. 64.
245–47
The Rosenstiel stories: Cooney, pp. 225–227.
247
Bronfman-Rosenstiel partnership: Newman, p. 134.
247
Nicknames: Cooney, p. 226; Robert Gould to author.
248
Car-playing among industry rivals: Frances Howard Goldwyn to author; similarly, Helen Gould to author.
248
Seagram brands displayed: Newman, p. 39.
248–51
The Julius Kessler story: Dr. Isaac Levine to author.
250
“But you’re an old man”: Newman, p. 157.
252
“This is so much bullshit”: ibid., p. 143.
252–54
Rose Stokes’s last days, funeral: New York Times, June 21, 1933.
253–54
Rose’s memorial service: ibid., July 25, 1933.
12. WAR
256
Joseph P. Kennedy story: Hecht, p. 520.
257
Kennedy and RKO: Lyons, pp. 143–144; Dreher, pp. 111–112.
257
“Sarnoff’s grand design”: Lyons, p. 143.
257
“A banker?”: Adolph Zukor to author.
257–59
Kennedy stories: Frances Howard Goldwyn (Mrs. Samuel) to author.
258
“tough customer”: Samuel Goldwyn files.
259
“de-Semitization”: Howe, p. 567.
259
“No writers”: Frances Goldwyn to author.
259–60
Hecht’s involvement with Bergson et al.: Hecht, pp. 529, 532, 536.
260–65
Jewish army fund-raising: ibid., pp. 538–543; also New York Times, Feb. 19, 1983.
262
“I called on David”: Hecht, p. 543.
262
“accept with pleasure”: Frances Goldwyn to author.
264
“We’re here to contribute”: Hecht, p. 543
265
“an investigation of propaganda”: New York Times, Aug. 19, 1941.
266
“The Zionists … turning in my grave”: Bergson quoted in New York Times, Feb. 19, 1983.
268
Impressions of Hillcrest Country Club: author’s.
268
“in this business”: Sam Marx to author.
270
“You will probably think it strange”: Goldwyn files.
270
“Please stop crying”: ibid.
270–71
Lansky and Jewish refugees: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, p. 297.
271
Bronfman’s philanthropy, Newman, p. 46.
272–73
Goldwyn and Danny Kaye: Frances Goldwyn to author.
273
“In dealing with my husband”: ibid.
274–75
“The Vanishing Jew”: Henry Popkin in Commentary, July, 1952. pp. 46, 51.
275
“This originates not in hate”: ibid., p. 46.
13. AT LAST, A HOMELAND
277
Siegel in Hollywood: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, p. 176.
277–78
Plans for Las Vegas: ibid., p. 225.
279
Cohen’s cleanliness: Cohen, pp. 255–256.
279
“not good for anyone’s image”: ibid., p. 1.
279
“a three-card Monte dealer”: ibid., p. 234.
280
“We were insured”: ibid., p. 45.
280
“Knockin’ their own proposition”: Hecht, p. 610.
280
“Who the hell is Ben Hecht”: Cohen, p. 89.
281
“This guy got me so goddamn excited”: ibid., p. 91.
282
“Jewish people”: ibid., p. 93.
282
“America is our Zion”: Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk to author.
282
“When one has ten million dollars”: Doris Lilly to author.
282–83
Cohen’s party: Cohen, p. 91.
283
Lansky’s helper on the docks: ibid., pp. 92–93: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, p. 296.
284
Cohen’s orders to kill British officers: Cohen, pp. 91–92.
285
“To me, he was the greatest man”: ibid., p. 92.
285
Figures on Jewish deaths: Siegel and Rheins, p. 153.
285
“We had been talking”: Dalia Lamport to author.
287–89
Apfelbaum family history: Anna Potok to author.
289
“We loved it here”: ibid.
14. TOUCHES OF CLASS
292
“he’s just a little old movie producer”: Frances Howard Goldwyn (Mrs. Samuel) to author.
293
Madame Rubinstein’s nomenclature: Patrick O’Higgins to author.
293
Bronfman children’s upbringing: Jack Clifford to author.
293
No business outside Canada: Edgar M. Bronfman, “Name Your Brand—In Any Market in the World,” Columbia Journal of World Business, vol. 4, no. 6 (Nov./Dec., 1969), p. 31.
293
“How long do you think”: Newman, p. 65.
293–95
Mayer’s life-style: Gail and Howard Strickling to author.
295
Goldwyn’s misspellings: Goldwyn files.
295
Goldwyn’s malapropisms: Frances Goldwyn to author.
295
“Find out how many stars”: ibid.
296
“How long have you and I”: Frances Goldwyn to author.
297
“A kind of love song”: ibid.
296n.
Parsons’s column: International Celebrity Register (New York: Celebrity Register Ltd., 1959), p. 573.
297–99
Gloversville story: ibid.
299–301
Lansky / Las Vegas story: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, p. 226; Gosch and Hammer, p. 316.
302
Siegel / Virginia Hill story: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, pp. 225, 237; Gosch and Hammer, p. 331.
302–307
Siegel, Hill, and the Flamingo: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, pp. 226, 235–241; Gosch and Hammer, pp. 316–319, 329–331.
303
“the situation”: Gosch and Hammer, p. 315.
15. ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY
312–13
German opposition to changes at Emanu-El, including quotes: Rabbi Ronald B. Sobel to author.
313
The Sidney Weinberg story: Walter E. Sachs to author.
314
The Harmonic Club story: Rabbi Sobel to author.
314–16
David Sarnoff’s house: author’s impressions.
316
“I believe that television”: Lyons, p. 207.
317
“Think of your family”: ibid., pp. 207–208.
317
“If we let our imagination”: ibid., p. 208.
317
RCA Pavilion: ibid., p. 216.
318
“Good evening”: ibid., p. 275.
319
“Father of American Television”: ibid., p. 268.
319
“I don’t think this television thing”: Frances Howard Goldwyn (Mrs. Samuel) to author.
321–24
Five Towns and Woodmere Academy: Beverley and Allen Gasner and Sue Kaufman Barondess to author.
322
“a golden ghetto”: Sue Kaufman Barondess to author.
322
“Be civil”: Beverley Gasner to author.
324
“And your grandfather and I worked so hard”: ibid.
16. CROWN PRINCES
327–28
The obituary: New York Times, Sept. 1, 1967.
328–31
The Calman Levine story: Dr. Isaac Levine (Calman’s son) to author.
329
“WE WHO MAKE”: Newman, p. 137.
329
The Willkie dispute: Dr. Isaac Levine to author.
329
“I am company policy”: ibid.
330
“You go to my enemy”: ibid.
331
“This call is not welcome”: ibid.
332
“But Father, don’t you know”: Newman, p. 174.
332
“But those Bronfmans”: Mrs. Arthur Lehman to author.
332
“the son of that Russian”: Mrs. J. L. Loeb to author.
333n.
Robert Sarnoff’s prediction: International Celebrity Register (New York: Celebrity Register Ltd., 1959), p. 666.
334
“Find Marshall”: Newman, p. 28.
335
“Sam was sitting”: ibid.
335
“My God!”: Sam Man to author.
336
“See him”: Newman, p. 35.
336–37
Rubinstein will: O’Higgins, pp. 279–280, 288, 293.
337
Bronfman/Holiday story: author’s recollection.
338
“If you’re saying”: Newman, p. 183.
339
“In real estate”: Robert Gould to author.
339
“We had a code of ethics”: Cohen, p. 183.
340
“Where are they going”: Mrs. Meyer Lansky to author.
340–42
Lansky’s family life: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, pp. 256, 230–231, 284–285.
342
“Don’t you know”: ibid., pp. 230–231.
17. WITCH-HUNTING
343
“pervasive shaper of American thought”: James Trager, The People’s Chronology (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979), p. 999.
344
Hellman’s income: Siegel and Rheins, p. 447.
345
“Let’s take a look”: ibid., p. 449.
345
Dalton Trumbo story: Trager, p. 999.
346
“always had something to say”: Siegel and Rheins, p. 450.
346
Zero Mostel story: ibid., p. 451.
346–47
John Garfield story: ibid., pp. 453–454.
347–48
Phillip Loeb story: ibid., pp. 454–457.
350
“Modern girls are conscious”: New Yorker, Aug. 10, 1925.
350
“As to being Jewish”: Dorothy Schiff, quoted to author by John Schiff.
351
“After all”: Frances Howard Goldwyn to author.
352
Lettice Stokes on Rose Pastor Mrs. Stokes to author.
18. PEOPLE WHO ARE SOLID
354
“I was born”: Jack Rosenthal to author.
354–57
Lansky’s harassment by U.S. officials: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, pp. 284–285.
356
“bad tuning … because of the Kefauver Report”: ibid., p. 288.
357
Sandra Lansky story, including quote: ibid., pp. 290–291.
357
“You see, Richard had been drinking”: ibid., p. 322.
358–59
Lansky as bargaining chip: ibid., pp. 313–314.
359
“That’s life”: quoted in New York Times. Jan. 16, 1983.
360
“Bugsy and I”: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, p. 324.
360
“Most of what they wrote about him”: Mrs. Meyer Lansky to author.
361–63
Phyllis Bronfman story: Newman, pp. 165–166.
362
“make this building”: ibid., p. 166.
363
“This building”: ibid., p. 167.
363
Atlantic Acceptance bankruptcy: ibid., p. 164.
364
Edgar’s college escapade: author’s recollection.
364
Linen asked to intercede: Newman, p. 159.
364
Sam’s opposition to divorce: John L. Loeb, Jr., to author.
364
“I’ve set it up”: Newman, p. 21.
365
Edgar’s premarital settlement: ibid., p. 189.
366
“I told Edgar … after the marriage”: ibid.
366
“I hate to be taken”: ibid., p. 190.
366–67
Sam II kidnapping, including quotes: ibid., pp. 190–191.
368
“Tell me, Edgar”: ibid., p. 187.
368
Conoco takeover story: People, Dec. 28, 1982–Jan. 4, 1983, pp. 62–63.
369
“To turn a hundred dollars”: Newman, p. 19.
369
“What would my father”: People, Dec. 28, 1982–Jan. 4, 1983, p. 63.
19. FROM POLAND TO POLO
371–72
Adolph Zukor story: Frances Howard Goldwyn (Mrs. Samuel) to author.
372
“God damn it”: Robert LaVine to author.
373
“I’m so sick”: Ralph Lauren to author.
373
“My mother wanted”: ibid.
374
“We wanted something”: ibid.
374