She also named him an editor
of The Objectifist:”Objectivist Calendar,” The Objectivist, September 1968, p. 528.
in which she aptly quoted Victor Hugo: The Ayn Rand Letter, January 31, 1972, p. 42.
appeared posthumously: Ayn Rand, The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers, Robert Mayhew, ed. (New York: Plume, 2001).
Also in 1969: The Romantic Manifesto (New York: World Publishing, 1969), p. 45.
Alan Greenspan arranged: Karen Minot and David Oyerly, “Interview with Henry Mark Holzer,” Full Context, July/August 2001, p. 5.
“It is not coercion, not the physical force”: Rand seems to have forgotten, or overlooked, the fact that NASA had been formed by an act of Congress in 1958 in response to the Soviet Union’s successful, and, to Americans, shocking, launching of Sputnik I and II into space and the consequent fear that America had fallen behind in its technological battle with Russia. In 1960, NASA appointed former Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun to lead the American effort to reach the Moon (Ayn Rand, “Apollo 11,” The Objectivist, September 1969, p. 709).
a new diamond-and-ruby ring: 100 Voices, the Vaught family, pp. 414–21.
On Rand’s return to New York: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 23, 1983.
“Those who suggest we substitute”: “Apollo 11,” p. 717.
She spoke at the invitation of Colonel Herman Ivey: 100 Voices, Brigadier General Jack Capps, p. 496.
The speech she gave: Philosophy: Who Needs It (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1982).
In effect, said Colonel Ivey: 100 Voices, Colonel Herman Ivey, p. 493.
Afterward, Rand, accompanied by Frank: Author interview with EK, July 21, 2006.
“Men were standing on other men’s shoulders”: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 23, 1983.
“My impression was”: 100 Voices, Brigadier General Jack Capps, pp. 497–98.
For the most part, “it was a dream trip”: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
couldn’t walk more than a few yards: 100 Voices, Colonel Herman Ivey, pp. 488–89.
one lung removed: MS, unpublished, taped interview with FB, Minna Goldberg, and MS, conducted by BB, February 20, 1983.
One day, she pointed: Author interview with JMB and Dr. Allan Blumenthal, March 23, 2004.
“She was finding it difficult to walk”: Peikoff, from taped, unpublished interviews by journalist JW in preparation for a CBC special report on the tenth anniversary of AR’s death, titled “Ideas: The Legacy of AR” (1992).
Yet she refused to take walks: TPOAR, p. 383.
But she was testing their patience: Author interview with JMB and Dr. Allan Blumenthal, March 23, 2004.
A translation of the letter: Author interview with Lilyan Courtois, September 5, 2006.
She had wanted to show: 100 Voices, FB, p. 23.
When Nora wrote about her love: Letter to Nora Drobyshev, May 5, 1973 (LOAR, p. 657).
At Kennedy Airport: TPOAR, p. 374.
striking resemblance: Author interview with EK, August 25, 2006.
whispered to Rand: TPOAR, p. 374.
They had expected a “rich, noble lady”: 100 Voices, Eleanora Drobysheva, p. 10.
“What good is political freedom to me?”: Author interview with EK, August 25, 2006.
“It was the altruism of our entire family”: 100 Voices, Eleanora Drobysheva, p. 9.
“But you are a rich and famous person!”: Author interview with EK, August 25, 2006.
“[My sister] had just artificially
constructed”: 100 Voices, Eleanora Drobysheva, p. 4.
“fake” and “lacking in talent”: 100 Voices, Eleanora Drobysheva, p. 5.
Nora called Rand: 100 Voices, Eleanora Drobysheva, p. 9.
She did contact her lawyer: 100 Voices, Evva Pryor of Ernst, Cane, Gitlin & Winick, p. 526.
Nor, as it turned out, did Nora wish to: Probate Proceedings, “Report of Guardian Ad Litem” November 16, 1983, p. 6.
When Nora and Fedor were gone: Author interview with EK, August 25, 2006.
“when I liked everything about [my sister]”: 100 Voices, Eleanora Drobysheva, pp. 10–13.
Time noted: “The Chairman’s Favorite Author,” Time, September 30, 1974.
397 during one of their semimonthly dinners: Author interview with JMB and Dr. Allan Blumenthal, October 7, 2007.
he showed Mitchell a copy of an antitrust article: The Age of Turbulence, p. 97; “The Assault on Integrity,” TON, August 1963, pp. 31–32.
She had drawn him from a world of empiricism: The Age of Turbulence, pp. 52–53.
The revival stirred unusual interest: Allen McCauley, “Ayn Rand, a Radical for True Capitalism,” Bergen County Record, February 22, 1973.
“[Penthouse Legend] is the kind of play”: Clive Barnes, “Stage: ‘Penthouse Legend,’ a Courtroom Drama,” NYT, February 23, 1973, p. 20.
It closed after thirty performances: “Closing the Record Book on 1972–1973,” NYT, Arts & Leisure, July 1, 1973, p. 3.
a line, or a few lines: The issue in dispute is whether AR’s anger about the changes in her dialogue was justified, or even reasonable.
“One mistake was all it took”: Taped, unpublished interview with Phillip and Kay Nolte Smith by journalist JW in preparation for a CBC special report on the tenth anniversary of AR’s death, entitled “Ideas: The Legacy of AR” (1992).
“She was relentless in pursuit”: TPOAR, p. 387.
“visual distortions”: “Art and Sense of Life,” The Objectivist, March 1966, p. 38.
“By then, there was something almost reckless”: TPOAR, p. 387.
She talked about “denouncing” them: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 23, 1983.
Her behavior with him shocked and upset the Kalbermans: Author interview with EK, July 21, 2006.
She viewed his rebellion: OHP, Robert Hessen, November 10, 2004.
On the advice of her secretary: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
“Leonard was destroyed”: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.