J. Powers - Suitable Accommodations - An Autobiographical Story of Family Life - The Letters of J. F. Powers, 1942-1963

I am most thankful for the valuable assistance of one sort or another given to me by Daniel Aaron, Mike Aquilina, Rich Arpi, Robert Barros, Michael Bitzan, Pat Bitzan, the late Tom Brown, Christopher Carduff, Chris Cotton, Justin Doyle, Katherine Doyle, Kevin Doyle, Rosemary Hugo Fielding, Rachel Humphrey Fischer, Roland Fischer, Anita Fore, Susannah Humphrey, the late Sister Nancy Hynes, OSB, X. J. Kennedy, Elizabeth Knuth, Jim Kraft, Sister Mary Kraft, CSJ, Hilary Bracken McGhee, Mrs. John Marshall, Michael Millgate, Cassandra Nelson, Jody O’Connell, Mary Pluth Palmquist, Catherine Petters, James A. Powers, Julianne O’Connell Restani, Peggy Roske, David Scott, Susan Stepka, Bob Tholkes, John Thorn, Michael True, Nicole Luthman Turnbull, Alexander Waugh, and Sister Mariterese Woida, OSB.

I also thank my agent, Andrew Blauner, and editor, Sean McDonald.

Much more than thanks belongs to my sister Jane and my brothers, Boz and Hugh; to my sons, Hugh and Thomas Blaisdell; and to my particular friend, Bob Groves.

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Aaron, Daniel; Writers on the Left

Abbey Press

Accent (magazine)

Adelphi College

Albany, New York

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Aldington, Richard

Alfrink, Card. Bernardus Johannes

Algonquin Hotel, New York

Algren, Nelson; Who Lost an American?

Allen, Walter

Alonzo, Russ

Alston, Walter

Alvin Theatre, Minneapolis

America (magazine)

America , SS

American Academy of Arts and Letters

American Forces Radio

American Indians

Ames, Elizabeth

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Anthony, St.

Anvil, The

Archer, Chub

Arden, Elizabeth

Ard na Fairrge; lack of central heating

Arlington Handicap

Armed Forces Radio

Army, United States

aspergillum

Atlantic Monthly

atomic bomb

Augustine, St.

Avon, Minnesota

Avon Commercial Club

Bader, A. L.

Baius, Michael

Bak, Bronislaw (Bruno)

Bak, Hedi (Hetty)

Baldwin, James

Bandas, Fr. Rudolph G.

Barcelona

Barkley, Alben W.

Barnett, George

Barrett, O’Connor

Bartholome, Mrs.

Bartholome, Bp. Peter W.

baseball

basketball

Baudelaire, Charles

BBC

Beardsley, Minnesota

Beaverbrook, Lord

Beckett, Samuel, Waiting for Godot

bees

Belfast

Bellow, Saul; Seize the Day

Benedictines

Bennington College

Benvenisti, J. L.

Berlin, Irving

Berra, Yogi

Berryman, John

Best Sellers

Big Spunk Lake, Avon, Minnesota

bingo

birth control

Bitzan, Donald J.

Bitzan, Michael

Bitzan, Patricia Wahl

Blackfoot Indians

Blades, Ray

“Blondie-Dagwood myth”

Bloomington, Indiana

Blue Books

“Blue Island,”

Bonn, Fr. John Louis

Bontemps, Arna

Book of Kells

Books and Brent (radio show)

Boston

Boston College

Boston Herald, The

Boswell, James, Life of Samuel Johnson

Bowen, Elizabeth

boxing

Boxing Day

Bradley, Van Allen

Brady, William Otterwell Ignatius

Brent, Stuart

Brentano’s

Breuer, Marcel

Brewster, Massachusetts

Britannic (ship)

British Columbia

Brooklyn Dodgers

Brown, Curtis

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Browning, Robert

Brown University

Bruce Publishing

burlesque

Busch, Joseph F.

Caedmon, Fr., see Wahl, Fr. Thomas Peter

Caesar, Sid

Caliri, Fortunata

Camus, Albert

Canada

Cape Cod

Capote, Truman

Carr, Mr.

Carrington V. C. (film)

cars

Casey, Fr. Marion G.

Catechetical Guild

Catholic Action

Catholic Action News

Catholic Church; in Ireland and; JFP’s views on. See also specific reform movements

Catholic Digest

Catholic Herald

Catholic Messenger, The

Catholic rural life movement

Catholic Times, The

Catholic Worker, The

Catholic Worker movement

Catholic World

CBS

Century Transportation Company

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chesterton, G. K.

Chevrolet

Chez Show (radio show)

Chicago and; 1944 Democratic National Convention

Chicago Daily News

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago Tribune

Children’s Mass Book, The

China

Christian Family Movement

Christmas

Churchill, Randolph

Church of the Sacred Heart, Robbinsdale

CIA

Clark Bars

Claudel, Paul

Clement, Frank G.

Cobh, Ireland

College of St. Benedict

Collegeville, Minnesota

Collier’s

Colonel Blimp (film)

Colorado

Colum, Padraic; Our Friend James Joyce

Columbia (magazine)

Columbia University

Commonweal, The

Communism

Como Park, St. Paul

Conrad, Joseph; Heart of Darkness

Conroy, Jack; The Disinherited and; JFP’s letters to

Continental League

Cook County Jail

cooking

Coppard, A. E.

Cork, Ireland

Cotton, Carlos

Cotton, Mary Katherine Finegan

“A Couple of Nights Before Christmas,”

Cowley, Fr. Leonard P.

Cowley, Malcolm, The Portable Faulkner

Craine, Clyde

Creighton University

Critic (magazine)

Critics (radio show)

Crocker, Betty

Crosby, Bing

Cross Section

Cuba

cummings, e. e.

Cusack, Cyril

Daily Telegraph, The

Dalkey, Ireland

Dante

D’Arcy, Fr. Martin

Davenport, Iowa

Davies, Rhys, “A Visit to Eggeswick Castle”

Davison, Davy

Day, Dorothy

“Defection of a Favorite,”

Democratic National Convention (1944)

Democratic Party (United States)

Detachment movement

Detroit, Michigan

Deutsch, Alcuin

Dever, Joe; No Lasting Home

“The Devil Was the Joker,”

Dickens, Charles

Dickens, Monica

Diekmann, Fr. Godfrey

Diggles, Joe

Dodson, Owen

dogs

Domino, Ruth

Domrese, Walter J.

Dos Passos, John

Doubleday

Downs, Hugh

Doyle, Elizabeth Anne Finegan; JFP’s letters to

Doyle, Leonard J. and; JFP’s letters to

Dryden, John

Dublin

Dulles, John Foster

Dumfries

Dunphy, Fr.

Dupas, Ralph

Dwyer, Jack

Earley, Sister Eugene Marie

Ecclesiastical Directory

Edel, Leon

Edinburgh

Edwards, Phil

Egan, Fr. Harvey F. X.; JFP’s letters to

Egan, Madge

Egypt

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

El Greco

Eliot, T. S.; The Rock

Elmira, New York

El Paso, Texas

England

Esquire

Evans, Bergen

Evening Mail, The

Falque, Fr. Ferdinand C.

Family Rosary Crusade

Fandel’s

Farina, Fr. Louis

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Faulkner, William and; “A Rose for Emily”; “Spotted Horses”

FBI

Federal Writers’ Project

Fehrenbacher, Fr. Henry

Fennelly, Fr. John

Fiedler, Leslie

Fielding, Rosemary Hugo