“He was very rude”: Interview with MS, conducted by BB, February 20, 1983.
left Chicago by plane for Portland, Oregon: The Brandens, who accompanied AR, couldn’t remember whether they also flew from New York to Chicago on the first leg of the trip. Either way, once in the plane she lost her fear of flying. “The unknown frightened her,” Barbara observed, “a fact of reality did not” (TPOAR, p. 318). She flew again in the 1970s.
Rand was joining him for a question-and-answer session: “Objectivist Calendar,” TON, September 1963, p. 36.
so crammed that a janitor called the fire department: 100 Voices, Jan Schulman, p. 248.
heard Frank’s voice through an open window: Author interview with RBH, May 19, 2005.
for years had been displeased: MYWAR, p. 203.
“a chicken and unloyal”: 100 Voices, Perry Knowlton, p. 307.
suggested publishing a second collection: TPOAR, pp. 321–22.
“The Fascist New Frontier”: This essay was based on a speech by the same name given at the Ford Hall Forum on December 16, 1962.
would have to remove the essay and change the title: Second draft of an unpublished letter from BC to AR, October 18, 1963 (Bennett Cerf Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, box 57).
“He made the decision not to publish”: TPOAR, p. 322.
One day in mid-October: They met on October 16, 1963; second draft of an unpublished letter from BC to AR, October 18, 1963.
her whole point: Manuscript letter to BC, October 30, 1963 (Bennett Cerf Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, box 57).
“Get yourself another publisher”: BC’s oral history interview on file at the Columbia University Oral History Project archives, number 719, p. 951; letter to BC, October 30, 1963 (LOAR, pp. 617–21).
had contracted to pay: 100 Voices, Perry Knowlton, p. 307.
new “unrequited love story”: JOAR, p. 709.
paid many of the bills at NAL: 100 Voices, Patrick McConnell (one of AR’s editors at New American Library), p. 451.
had to nag and coax the editors: 100 Voices, Perry Knowlton, p. 312.
“delegated to Ayn Rand duty”: Author interview with former New American Library editor Gerry Howard, March 2, 2004.
“She asked me at lunch”: Author interview with former New American Library editor John Thornton, who was assigned to AR from 1975–79; March 4, 2004.
“That’s not funny”: 100 Voices, Patrick McConnell, p. 451.
“no conflicts of interest among rational men”: TVOS, p. 57.
The Virtue of Selfishness did not include: NBI published “The Fascist New Frontier” as a pamphlet in 1963.
“I hope you will agree”: Manuscript letter from BC to AR, November 26, 1963 (Bennett Cerf Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, box 57).
“She said the assassination”: BC, Columbia University Oral History Project interview, p. 952.
“I think you are one of the most wonderful people”: Unpublished letter from BC to AR, March 29, 1965 (Bennett Cerf Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, box 57).
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337 Cerf blamed her followers: Cerf, Columbia University Oral History Project interview, p. 952.
“She was a revolutionary”: JH, from taped, unpublished interviews by journalist JW in preparation for a CBC special report on the tenth anniversary of AR’s death, titled Ideas: The Legacy of Ayn Rand (1992).
“She could be immensely empathetic”: Author interview with BB, October 12, 2007.
“This is exactly how I feel about myself”: 100 Voices, Ilona Royce Smithkin, p. 214.
At least twice a year: “Objectivist Calendar,” TON.
also tape-recorded answers: Author interview with Shelly Reuben, November 19, 2007.
without accepting any remuneration: MYWAR, p. 206.
NBI “was certainly profitable”: “The Liberty Interview: Barbara Branden, p. 54.
She let it be known that he, and only he: “Conversations with Ayn Rand,” p. 35.
traded their set of rooms: The Brandens had earlier moved from their single room into a one-bedroom apartment at 165 East Thirty-fifth Street before moving into 120 East Thirty-fourth.
Elayne Kalberman managed the newsletter staff: Author interview with EK, July 21, 2006.
transferred his paints: Author interview with Don Ventura, March 19, 2004.
An intercom joined the O’Connors’ apartment with the Brandens’: BB, in a taped interview with MS, February 18, 1983.
she tended to have fixed ideas about drawing: “Art and Cognition,” The Romantic Manifesto, p. 49.
She might point out that his colors: Facets of Ayn Rand, pp. 120–21.
she phoned her favorite painter: Author interview with JMB and Dr. Allan Blumenthal, March 23, 2004.
she asked knowledgable friends: Facets of Ayn Rand, p. 121.
“He is a tiger at the easel”: Facets of Ayn Rand, p. 121.
“It was the only time”: Author interview with Don Ventura, March 19, 2004.
“That’s what she was concerned about”: Author interview with JMB and Dr. Allan Blumenthal, September 2, 2004.
she forbade him to sell his paintings: Author interview with Don Ventura, March 19, 2004; author correspondence with BB, September 17, 2008.
she was discovered: Author interview with Roberta Satro, July 20, 2006. Satro was the on-s ite rental agent for 120 East Thirty-fourth Street and several other Murray Hill apartment buildings in the 1970s; in 1979 or 1980, she came upon Rand putting the painting in a trash can and asked if she could take it home. Rand agreed.
“I’m coming back to life”: JD, p. 314.
was the most important person in the world to him: TPOAR, p. 335.
offered to counsel the unhappy couple: JD, p. 314.
a therapeutic technique that she categorically rejected: “The Benefits and Hazards.”
resented what he later characterized as: “The Benefits and Hazards.”
“kill one’s capacity to be certain of anything”: Nathaniel Branden, “Mental Health versus Mysticism and Self-Sacrifice,” TON, March 1963, p. 9.