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

O’Connell, Dick

O’Connell, Joann Wiley; caricature of Jim by; JFP’s letters to

O’Connell, Joseph; JFP’s letters to

O’Connor, Edwin; The Last Hurrah

O’Connor, Flannery; “Greenleaf”

O’Connor, Frank

Ó Faoláin, Eileen

Ó Faoláin, Seán

O’Hara, Maureen

O. Henry Award

Ohio

O’Neill, Marty

Ong, Walter

Oregon

Orwell, George; The Road to Wigan Pier

Osaka, Japan

Ottaviani, Card. Alfredo

Our Father’s House (anthology)

Oxford, England

pacificism

Palmer, Joe H.

Palmquist, Mary Pluth; JFP’s letters to

Palmquist, Richard (Dick); JFP’s letters to

Parcheesi

Paris, France

Partisan Review

Pater, Walter

Penitentes

Perón, Eva

Perry, Jim

Perspectives (magazine)

Petrarch

Petrek, Fr.

Petters, Catherine

Petters, Fredric; JFP’s letters to

Petters, Rosemary Boyle (Romy); JFP’s letters to

Peyton, Father Patrick

Pickwick Papers, The (film)

Pirates of Penzance, The

Pontifical Academy of Theology

pop culture

Pope, Alexander

Porter, Katherine Anne; “The Fig Tree,”; “Holiday”; JFP’s letters to; Ship of Fools

Portland, Oregon

Pound, Ezra

Powell, Dawn, The Golden Spur

Power, Jimmy

Powers, Elizabeth Alice Wahl (Betty); Avon house of; courted by Jim; death of; early married life; engagement to Jim; Fr. George Garrelts and; in Ireland; JFP’s letters to; marriage to Jim and; “Martinmas”; in Milwaukee; miscarriage of; motherhood and family life; pregnancies of; Rafferty & Co. ; return to St. Cloud; St. Cloud house of; “Tide Rips in the Teacups,”; time management and; at Wahls’ summer cottage and; wedding of; writing career of and; at Yaddo

Powers, Hugh Wahl; birth of; childhood of

Powers, James

Powers, James Ansberry; background of

Powers, James Ansbury (Boz); birth of; childhood of; JFP’s letters to

Powers, James Farl (Jim); in Ann Arbor; appendectomy of; Avon house of; birth of; caricature of; cars of; childhood of; as conscientious objector during World War II; courtship of Betty; Detachment movement and; dreams of; Dublin office of; early jobs of; early married life; education of; engagement to Betty; fatherhood and family life and; finances of and; first published book of; first published story of; Guggenheim grant of and; housing situations and problems of and; in Ireland; marriage to Betty and; middle name of and; in Milwaukee; “the Movement” and; National Book Award of; parole of; political views of and; in prison; publication of Morte D’Urban and; publishers of and; return to St. Cloud; reviews by; reviews on and; rural living of; St. Cloud house of; as St. Joseph’s Hospital orderly; Shanedling Building office of; as sports fan and; as a teacher; views on Catholic Church; Vossberg Building office of; at Wahls’ summer cottage and; wedding of; women and; at Yaddo. See also titles of specific works

Powers, Jane Elizabeth; birth of; childhood of

Powers, Katherine Anne; birth of; childhood of; JFP’s letters to

Powers, Mary Farl; birth of; childhood of; JFP’s letters to

Powers, Richard (Dick)

Powers, Zella Routzong; background of

Presbyterians

“The Presence of Grace” (story)

Presence of Grace, The (story collection)

presidential elections: of 1944 and; of 1948; of 1952; of 1960

Priest, The

Priestley, J. B., Journey Down a Rainbow

“Prince of Darkness,”

Prince of Darkness, and Other Stories

Princeton University

Protestantism

Publishers Weekly

Purdue University

Quakers

Quebec, Canada

Quesnel, Pasquier

Quiet Man, The (film)

Quincy, Illinois

Quincy College Academy; Little Hawks

Quinn, J. Kerker; JFP’s letters to

Rabelais, François

radio

Radio Luxembourg

Radio Moscow

Ramacher, Fr. Edward

Ransom, John Crowe

Ravel, Maurice; La Valse

Rawson, Ramona

Reed College

“Renner,”

Reporter, The

Republican Party (United States)

Respighi, Ottorino

Rice, Warner G.

Rickey, Branch

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay

Roach, Jim

Roberts, Thomas d’Esterre, SJ, Black Popes: Authority; Its Use and Abuse

Robinson, Henry Morton, The Cardinal

Rockefeller Foundation

Rockford, Illinois

Roethke, Theodore

Rogers, Will

Rome, Italy

Roncalli, Angelo Giuseppe (later Pope John XXIII)

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Ross, Lanny

Routzong, Farl

Routzong, Matilda

Roy, Fr. Pacifique

Rule of St. Benedict, The

Russia

“The Sack Race” (provisional title for novel)

Saddler, Sandy

Sagan, Françoise

St. Anthony Village, Oakmont, Pennsylvania

St. Benedict’s, see College of St. Benedict

St. Cloud Diocese

St. Cloud “red house”; demolition of

St. Cloud State College

St. Cloud Times, The

St. John’s Abbey and University, Collegeville, Minnesota

St. Joseph’s Hospital, St. Paul, Minnesota

St. Mary’s Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota

St. Olaf’s, Minneapolis, Minnesota

St. Paul, Minnesota

St. Paul Pioneer Press

St. Paul Saints

St. Paul Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota

St. Stephens, Greystones, Ireland

San Antonio, Texas

Sand, George

Sandstone Federal Penitentiary, Sandstone, Minnesota; JFP’s letters from

San Francisco

Saratoga Springs, New York

Sarazen, Gene

Saroyan, William

Saturday Evening Post, The

Saturday Review

Sauk Centre, Minnesota

Schenk, Bp. Francis Joseph

Scherer, Sr. Mary Joseph

Schuman, William

Scotland

Seattle, Washington

Seberger, Albertine Muller; JFP’s letters to

Second Vatican Council

Seide, Michael

Senate, U.S.

sex

Shanedling Building office

Shattuck, Charles; JFP’s letters to

Shattuck, Susan

Shaw, George Bernard

Shaw, Irwin

Sheen, Bp. Fulton

Sheil, Bp. Bernard James

Sigal, Clancy, Going Away

Sign

Silvers, Phil

Sinatra, Frank

$64,000 Question, The (TV show)

Skillin, Ed

Smedley, Agnes

Smith, Red

Snead, Sam

Society of Midland Authors

Spain

Spellman, Card. Francis Joseph

Speltz, George Henry

Spillane, Mickey

Spiritual Writers’ Conference

sports and. See also specific sports

Sputnik

Stafford, Jean; Boston Adventure; The Mountain Lion

Stagg, A. A.

Standard (magazine)

Standard Oil

Stanford, William Bedell

Stranraer, Scotland

Stearns County, Minnesota

Steinbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath

Stevenson, Adlai

Stokowski, Leopold

Strobel, Albert; death of; JFP’s letters to

Strobel, Bertha Seberger; death of; JFP’s letters to

Studebaker

Suez Crisis

Sunday Times

Sunday Visitor

Sun Herald, The

Swenson, Eric

Sylvester, Harry and; Moon Gaffney

Symons, Arthur

Taft, Robert A.

Taft-Hartley Act

Taliesin

Tate, Allen

Taylor, Peter; A Long Fourth, and Other Stories

television

Terry (dog)

Texas

Thermod Monsen Award

Thinker’s Digest

Thomas, Joan

Thomas à Kempis and; The Imitation of Christ

Thye, Edward