New York in the '50s (58 page)

Greenwich Village,
4–5
,
116–59
; after the fifties,
158–59
; apartment hunting in,
122–23
; appearance and character,
116–17
; bohemianism in,
117–18
,
121
,
122
,
126
,
140
,
141
; community identity in,
125–26
; Italian community in,
141
,
229
; the
Voice
and,
142–48
; from WWI to WWII,
122

Greer, Germaine,
296

Gregor, Arthur,
126

Grist, Ray,
109–10
,
114–15
,
311
,
318
,
339

Grove Press,
150
,
326

Grubb, Jean,
49

guns,
102
,
104

Guthrie, Woody,
158

Hagen, Uta,
16

Halberstam, David,
270
,
331

Half Note,
307
,
311

Hall, Jim,
111

Hamill, Pete,
146
,
297

Hamilton, Bernie,
311

Hammett, Dashiell,
248

Hansberry, Lorraine,
157
;
A Raisin in the Sun
,
157
;
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
,
157
;
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black
,
158

Harlem,
72
,
91
,
93
,
112

Harper's Magazine
,
105
,
315

Harrington, Michael,
5
,
122
,
126
,
130–31
,
140–42
,
158
,
159
,
168
,
263
,
269
,
316
,
320
; and Catholic Worker movement,
77–78
,
80
,
86
;
Fragments of the Century
,
77
,
122
,
141
;
The Other America
,
80

Harris, Julie,
16
,
277
,
278

Harris, Reed,
247–50
,
251
,
256

Hart, Howard,
303

Hartley, Joe (“the Fox”),
298

Havens, Richie,
318

Hawkins, Coleman,
303

Hayden, Hiram,
282

Hayes, Harold,
21
,
222
,
265
,
268
,
283
,
290–92
,
293–94
,
296
,
297
,
321

Hellman, Lillian,
259

Hemingway, Ernest,
6
,
7
,
19
,
34
,
84
,
105–6
,
108
,
113
,
122
,
143
,
161
,
163
,
221
,
239
,
275
,
277
,
289
,
300
,
322
,
328
;
Death in the Afternoon
,
6
,
300
;
In Our Time
,
105–6
;
The Sun Also Rises
,
161

Hemley, Cecil,
284

Hemlock Society,
340

Hennacy, Ammon,
73–75
,
77
,
82–84

Hentoff, Margot,
302
,
338

Hentoff, Nat,
107
,
111
,
158–59
,
166
,
288
,
301
,
338
,
340
; and jazz,
302–3
,
306
,
307
,
310
;
The Jazz Life
,
310

Hepburn, Audrey,
16

Herbst, Josephine,
239

Hickory House,
306

Hills, Rust,
283
,
291

hippies,
176
,
181
,
270

Hirsch, Abbey,
306

Hirshberger, Ruth,
126

Hiss, Alger,
61
,
291–92
,
293

Hoffa, Jimmy,
62

Hoffman, Paul,
252

Holder, Geoffrey,
109
,
114

Holiday, Billie,
96
,
313
,
314–17
; death of,
316–17
;
Lady Sings the Blues
,
96
,
317

Hollywood,
20

Holm, Celeste,
16

Holmes, John Clellon,
129
,
162–63
,
194
; “This Is the Beat Generation,”
162–63

Homestead restaurant,
60

homosexuals,
140
,
141
,
149–50
,
156
,
228
,
230
,
248
,
313
; and psychiatry,
223–24

Hoover, J. Edgar,
330

Horn, Judge W. J. Clayton,
179

Horney, Karen,
144

hospitality houses,
76
,
82
,
131
,
168

Houghton Mifflin,
326
,
336

House Un-American Activities Committee,
251
,
270

Howe, Irving,
158
,
220
,
233

Howells, William Dean,
20

Hudson, Priscilla,
322

Huizinga, Johan,
287

Hungarian revolution,
264

I Am a Camera
(play),
16

Idlewild Airport,
22–23

immigration,
91

Indianapolis: Robin Hood controversy,
252–55

Indianapolis Star
,
48
,
49
,
132
,
252–55

Industrial Design
,
53

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW),
74
,
76

Inge, William,
277

Ingram-Merrill Foundation,
320

International Information Administration,
248
,
249–50

Irish rebellion,
127
,
131
,
132

Italian Americans,
141
,
329

J. J. Johnson Quartet,
164

Jacobson, Dan,
178

James, Henry,
138
,
204
,
302

James, Joni,
298

“James at 15” (TV),
44

Japanese influence,
124
,
125

jazz,
6
,
135
,
219
,
298–318
,
329
,
334
; and racial relations,
111
,
301
; reading to,
167–68

Jenner, William,
251

Jester
,
40

Jews: at Columbia,
45–47
; ethnicity and sexuality,
197–98

Jim Atkins's hash house,
124
,
161

Jimmy Ryan's,
298

Johnny Romero's bar,
160
,
311

Johnson, Bunk,
302

Johnson, J. J.,
5
,
169
,
300
,
314

Johnson, Joyce Glassman,
31
,
169–70
,
184
,
192
;
Come and Join the Dance
,
169
;
Minor Characters
,
169

Johnson, Lyndon B.,
80

John's restaurant,
134

Jones, Elvin,
312

Jones, Hettie Cohen,
238
,
312
,
318
;
How I Became Hettie Jones
,
238
,
318

Jones, James,
276
;
From Here to Eternity
,
276
,
282

Jones, LeRoi,
see
Baraka, Amiri

Jones, Philly Joe,
298

journalism,
51
,
146
; Columbia as training ground for,
36–40
; New Journalism,
132–33
,
288–89
,
296–97
; status of medium,
287–97
.
See also specific magazines and newspapers

Joyce, James,
122
,
165
;
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
,
7
;
Ulysses
,
122

Joy of Sex, The
(Comfort),
333

Jules and Jim
(film),
276

Julius's bar,
120
,
129

Jump
,
114
,
311

Jung, Carl,
250

Kalb, Bernard,
285

Kama Sutra
,
242

Kaplan, Justin:
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain
,
337

Kaplan, Raymond,
250

Katz, Dick,
301

Katz, Leslie,
14
,
20
,
126
,
154
,
156
,
285
,
301

Keats, John,
29–30

Kempton, Murray,
3–4
,
74
,
96
,
105
,
106
,
133
,
188
,
215
,
259–62
,
264
,
266
,
270
,
282
,
339
; friendship with Buckley,
261–62
; influence on DW,
60–64
; and jazz,
301–3
;
Part of Our Time
,
61–62
,
260
; stature as reporter,
287–88
,
289

Kennedy, Jackie,
265

Kennedy, John F.,
1
,
2
,
246
,
250
,
264
,
265–66
,
331

Kennedy, Robert,
265
,
291

Kenton, Stan,
4
,
20

Kerouac, Jack,
7
,
9
,
25
,
134
,
138
,
139
,
148
,
160–76
,
178
,
179
,
181
,
183–85
,
186
,
188
,
189–94
,
223
,
303
; death of,
175–76
;
Desolation Angels
,
174–75
;
Dr. Sax
,
194
; DW meets,
172–74
; DW writes about,
134
,
170–71
,
172
,
173
,
175
; Lowell commemorative to,
186
;
On the Road
,
9
,
41
,
161–67
,
169
,
171
,
175
,
176
,
181
,
184
,
185
,
194
,
199
,
308
; reads at Village Vanguard,
5
,
164
,
167–70
,
171
,
172
,
175
,
179
;
The Town and the City
,
160
,
162
,
165
,
190

Kesterton, M. M. (“Crow”),
48–49

Kettle of Fish,
129
,
162
,
163
,
168

Kierkegaard, S.,
30

Kilgore, Barney,
49–50
,
56
,
60

King, Billie Jean,
291

King, Reverend Martin Luther, Jr.,
112
,
113–14
,
318

King and I, The
(play),
16

Kingston Trio,
313

Kinsey, A. C,
29
,
204
;
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
,
204–5
,
208

Kirstein, George,
66–67
,
71
,
170

Kirstein, Jane,
71

Kirstein, Lincoln,
66

Klein, Norma,
31

Kline, Franz,
111
,
130
,
219
,
307
,
308
,
309

Klink, Walter,
272

Klonsky, Milton,
134

Knapp, Caroline,
224–25

Koch, Edward,
142

Koch, Janice,
58

Koch, Kenneth,
58
,
308

Koestler, Arthur,
215

Korean War,
31
,
40
,
76
,
207

Kramer, Hilton,
156

Kramer, Jane,
288

Krassner, Paul,
332

Krim, Seymour,
8
,
132–36
,
143
,
146
,
152
,
165
,
168
,
175–76
,
282
,
288
,
320
,
340–41
; death of,
340–41
; “The Insanity Bit,”
135
,
289
,
341
; “Making It,”
133
; meeting and friendship with DW,
133–35
; “Ubiquitous Mailer vs. Monolithic Me,”
325–26
;
Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer
,
132
,
133

Kristofferson, Kris,
335

Kupcinet, Irv,
330

“Kup's Show” (TV),
330

Kushner, Rabbi Harold,
2
,
30
,
46

Ladd, Alan,
276

Lahr, Bert,
16

Lamantia, Philip,
303

Lamm, Corky,
49

Lamson, Emily (pseudonym),
197–202
,
211–12
,
213
,
214–15
,
240