Personal Oral History of Ann Cottrell Free Index
Page numbers refer to the numbered transcript pages in the oral history PDF.
A
AA.P. Hill School, 12
After Dark (pony), 148; ACF fall off, 149
Agra, India, 97
Albert Schweitzer Center, 142
Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, 141, 142
Allen, Caroline, 5, 6
Allen, Gracia, 5, 6
Allen, Helen, 5
Allen, Thelma: helps care for Emily Cottrell, 140
Allenby, General Edmund H.H., Lord, 125
Alsop, Dr. Wilamenda, 30
American Air Lines, 55
American Friends Service Ambulance Corps, 37
American Humane Society, 135
American Legion Auxiliary, 30
American Meat Institute: and Humane Slaughter Bill, 156
American Security Bank and Trust: fails during Depression, 20
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: see ASPCA
“Amos and Andy” (radio program), 16
Andartes (Greek rebels), 103
Anderson, Marian, 50-51
Andrews, Bert: N.Y. Herald Tribune Washington Bureau Chief, 57, 61, 122
Andrews, Cicely (pseud. Rebecca West), 114
Andrews, Nadine, 57
Angor Wat, 92, 93
Animal Welfare Act, 134, 135
Animal Welfare Institute, 142
Animals, Nature and Albert Schweitzer (Free), 142
Anthony, Miss, 17, 18
Arabs, 61, 62
Archbold Mansion (Washington, D.C.), 125
Arcturus-on-the-Potomac: home of Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, 60
Armstrong, Robert, 46
Army Air Corps, 44, 55
Army Nurse Corps, 66
Ashe, Arthur: statue of in Richmond, 88
ASPCA: and issues of humane slaughter, 155-56
Associated Press, 47; Topping writes for, 89
Audubon Book Shop: and ACF’s book, 136
Auschwitz, 158; P. Leon dies at, 109
“Ave Maria” (song): Marian Anderson sings, 51
Azrael, Sarah Lampert, 111
B
Babcock, Muriel, 36
Bad Girls (Delmar), 18
Baden Baden (Germany), 106
Baer, Manfred, 122
Baeyens, James, 91, 93
Baltimore Sun, 119
Bangkok (Thailand), 95, 96
Banicevic, Maria, 99-100, 101; model for character in Gray Lamb and Black Falcon, 100, 114
Barbeau, Henry, 92
Barbeau, Nina, 92
Barnard College, 33; ACF attends, 26-27; and anti-Japanese boycott, 38; ACF’s mother visits, 151
Barnes, Harold, 42
Barnett, Irving, 66
Barroughs, Isabel (Isabelle), 19; wrote column for Richmond Times Dispatch, 19
Bates, Beverly, 23
Beall, Jack, 57
Beasley, Maurine, 59
Beatrice Fairfax (advice column), 46
Begin, Menachem, 62
Behymer, Andy, 142
Bell, Sam, 57
Bemiss, Bill, 20-21
Bergen Belsen, 78
Bergson, Peter (Hillel Kook), 61, 62
Berk, Stan, 143
Berlin (Germany), 107; zones of occupation, 107
Besler, Max, 40
Betances, Mrs., 127
Bide a Wee (animal shelter), 151
Billy (horse), 22
Binford Junior High School, 17, 34
bird watching: and Rachel Carson, 136, 137
Birmingham News, 133, 137
Black, Ruby, 45
Blake, Emma Walters (grandmother of ACF), 1, 9, 10
Blake, George McDuffie (grandfather of ACF), 1, 2, 8, 9
Blue Eagle posters, 20
Blue Ridge Mountains, 21
“Blueprint for Education for Democ-ratizing Germany, A” (ACF), 107
BOAC (British Overseas Airway Corporation), 95
Bodine, Michael, 82
Boland, John, 68
Bombay (India), 98
Bonham (Texas), 49
Bonnie (dog), 126
Booth, Renee Rosin, 10, 11
Booth, Dorothy, 11
“Boris Gudunov” (movie), 39
Borodin, Michael, 81
Bosnians: in Sinai refugee camp, 99
Bosquet, David, 73
Bradlee, Ben, 60
Bradley, Irving, 12
Briggs, Shirley: and Rachel Carson, 136, 137, 138, 139
Brisk, Fay: and animal rights, 134
Brook Run Stables, 148-49
Brother Agius: works for animal rights, 156
Brown, Lois Loehr, 21
Buchenwald, 158
Buck, Mr., 84
Buddha bell, 70
Buddy (horse), 13
Bulgaria, 103
Bulletin, The (Barnard newspaper), 28
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Verna Feuerhelm works for, 90; Index, 90
Burke, Alice, 39
Burleith, Washington, D.C., 125
Burma, 95, 96
C
C & O: workman at coal yard, 17, 146
C-47 (“Dakota”), 79
Cabbage and Kings (Helm), 50
Cairo (Egypt), 58, 101
Cairo Hotel (Washington, D.C.), 45
Calcutta (India), 95; cows in, 96, 97
Cambodia, 92, 124; donates elephant to National Zoo, 124
Camp Lee (U.S. Army), 43
Camp Mont Shenandoah, 21, 24, 25; activities at, 21, 22, 23; Vespers at, 23; horseback riding at,
#23, 24
CCamp Okahawis, 26; ACF counselor at, 24, 25
Camp Wallawhatolla, 21
Campbell, Doon, 91
Campbell, Elspeth, 37
Campbell, Felicia, 37
Campbell, Georgina, 37
Campbell, Reginald, 96
Cannon, Hildegard, 137
Canton (China), 91
Capri, 120
captive bolt pistol: and humane slaughter, 129, 153; used in England, 129
Carrice, Charlie, 56
Carroll, Madeleine, 35, 36
Carson, Lee, 47
Carson, Rachel, 101, 135, 136, 138, 139; death of, 137, 139
Catholic Animal Welfare Study Group, 156
Cathy Mansions: ACF lives in, 69
Catledge, Turner, 52, 53
Cavin, Patty, 138, 139
Central Press Association, 49
Chambers, Whittaker, 122; and “Pumpkin Papers,” 122
Chaney, Mayris: and Office of Civilian Defense, 48
Chang Tso Lin (“Young Marshall”), 85
Chen, Anna: see Chennault, Anna Chen
Chen, Eugene, 81
Chen, Jack, 81, 82, 84
Chennault, Anna Chen, 72; and FDR Memorial, 72
Chesterman, Mrs. Evan, 25
Chetniks: in Sinai refugee camp, 99
Chiang Kai-shek, 81
Chiang Kai-shek, Madame: at Eleanor Roosevelt press conference, 50
Chicago Sun, 41, 53, 55, 56; Washington Bureau, 52, 53; ACF works for, 52, 54
Chicago Tribune, 47, 53
Children’s Bureau, 50
China, 16, 26, 27, 54; participation in World War II, 63; Kunming, 64, 75; famine in, 75; Changsha, 76, 78; hunger riots, 76; types of food relief, 76; governmental corruption, 77, 78; Shanghai, 78; cultural revolution, 78; Red Guards, 78; Jews in, 80; Changchun, 84; and Manchuria, 85: Northeastern Provinces, 85; Manchukuo, 85
Chinese communists, 73, 79, 82, 84, 85; and governmental corruption, 78
Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 71, 74
Chinese Nationalist government (Kuomintang), 73, 79, 82, 84-85
Chips (dog), 125
Chou En-lai, 73, 74, 75, 78, 85
Christ Stopped at Eboli (Levi), 120-21
Christian Science Monitor, 59, 122, 124
Chronicle, The, 113
Churchill, Winston, 62, 63, 64
Circle Sportif (Shanghai), 69
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 20, 21
Cleveland Park (Washington, D.C.), 41
Close, Upton, 54
CNRRA: see Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Coastal Maine Wildlife Refuge, 137
Cockrell, Lyttleton, 11
Cody, Morrill, 116
colic: in horses, 149
Collegiate School for Girls, 18, 20, 31, 34, 90; teachers at, 19; athletics at, 19
Columbia University, 26, 28, 38
communism, communist party, 38, 39, 103
concentration camps, 63
Congress (U.S.): and banning DDT and chlorinated hydrocarbons, 137
Constitution Hall: Marian Anderson banned from singing at, 51
Cook, Bob, 71, 72
Cook, Rita Nagel, 121
Cook, Wesley, 121
coolies, 79
Corduroy (horse), 9
Cornwall, Miss, 12
Cottrell, Emily Blake (mother of ACF), 1, 2, 3, 12, 23, 25, 65, 115, 122, 150; and cat and kittens, 6; meets husband, 9; education of, 10; rides horses, 9, 13; friendship with Ralph Fick, 14; destroys plates, 15; sends ACF to Collegiate School, 18, 31; and ACF introduction to Rex Smith, 37; assists ACF, 42; divorces husband, 65; illnesses of, 139-40; death of, 140; active in Richmond SPCA, 146, 150, 151; taught riding, 148-49, 150; rides Windrock, 149; rides with ACF, 149; visits Barnard, 151
Cottrell, Emmett (father of ACF), 1, 2, 5, 7, 12, 14-15, 17, 20, 149; meets wife, 9; loans horse to Camp Mont Shenandoah, 22; brings home brace of birds, 146
Cottrell, Julia (aunt of ACF), 7, 8
Cottrell, Julia Givenzel Crump (grandmother of ACF), 24; called G-Muds, 7
Cottrell, Leila (aunt of ACF), 7
Cottrell, Marian (aunt of ACF), 7
Cottrell, Pierre, 9
Cottrell, Sally (aunt of ACF), 7, 15
Cottrell, Samuel Henry (grandfather of ACF), 7, 9; called G-Dads, 7
Cottrell, Stuart (uncle of ACF), 7, 8
Cottrell, Walker Crump (uncle of ACF), 7, 9
Cow Pasture River, 21, 24
Cowan, Ruth, 47
Craig, May, 44, 47, 131
Craigh Isthmus: see Kra Isthmus
Craven, Eileen St. John Brennan, 37
Croats: in Sinai refugee camps, 99
Crump, Emily, 24
Crump, Robert, 24
Cullinane, Leo, 58, 59
Cullinane, Lou, 59
Cullinane, Robert, 58
D
DAR: see Daughters of the American Revolution
Daladier, Edouard, 62
Dan: workman at coal yard, 17
Dandy (pony), 147
Daughters of the American Revolution, 30, 51
Davis, G.K.: death of, 22-23
Davis, Katie Gilliam, 22
DDT, 136, 137
“Death of Floyd Collins” (song), 13
Deep Run Hunt Club, 12-13, 150; father charter member, 13; fox hunts at, 146-47
DeGaulle, General Charles, 62, 63
Delmar, Vinta, 18
Department of Agriculture, 134, 157; and laboratory animals, 132; ACF visits, 132-33; and animal testing, 133; designation LD-50, 133; Experimental Station, 134; and veterinarians, 135
Department of the Interior, 136; Fish and Wildlife Service, 137
Diamond, Eleanor, 24
Dickerson, Nancy Hanks, 138
Dien Bien Phu, 92
Dior: ACF visits, 111, 112
Distert, Lem, 126
Dixon, Jeanne, 60
Dodd, Mead and Company, 128
Donovan, William (“Wild Bill”), 47
Dorado, Miss, 30
Dorothy Dix (advice column), 46
Drewry, Ann Octavia, 17; portrait of, 16
Duff (cat), 13
Duke, Miss Florence, 17, 18
Dumbarton Oaks, 64
Duncan, Epre, 19
Dunkirk, 112
Dupont Circle (Washington, D.C.), 41, 47
Duveen, Joseph, (Lord Duveen of Millbank): and opening of National Gallery of Art, 42, 43, 63
E
Early, Stephen, 55
Economic Cooperation Administration: see Marshall Plan
Eddy, Nettie Mae, 140; helps with Free household, 127, 128
Edge, Jakie, 34
Edith and Her Ayah, 2
Egypt, 104, 114; see also Sinai desert
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 128; and Humane Slaughter bill, 129, 131, 156; possible use of pocket veto, 131; press conference and Humane Slaughter bill, 131; signs Humane Slaughter bill, 131
Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia, 45, 59
electrical stunning: for animal slaughter, 129
Ellen Prince Speyer Home (animal shelter), 151
El-Shatt (Egypt), 99
“Elms, The:” Blake family home, 9
Embassy Row (Miller), 49
Emily Post, 143
Empire Joy (ship), 65, 67, 68; recreation aboard, 68
Enviro South: ACF writes for, 141
Equus Przewalski: see Mongolian wild horse
Ernest, Bert, 14
Ernest, Clyde, 14
Ernest, James, 14
Ernest, Jesse, 14
Ernest, Mary, 14; suicide of, 14
Esskay Corp., 130
Ethopia, 98
euthanasia: of animals, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154
“Evangeline” (Longfellow): ACF memorizes, 17
Evans, Silliman, 52, 53, 55
F
Farm Security Administration: Arthur Rothstein works for, 75
Farmington Hunt Club, 35
Farrell, Elizabeth, 111; at Garfinkel’s, 111
Farrow, Steven, 25, 26
fascism, 38, 103
Faulkner, Sara, 25
FDR Memorial: A. Chennault on board for, 72
Federal Register, 134
feed lots, 157
Feuerhelm, Verna Mae, 89, 93, 122, 139; works for Bureau of Labor Statistics, 90; travels around the world with ACF, 90-112; and star sapphire, 95; in Paris, 117
Fick, Dorsey, 14
Fick, Laura Dorsey, 14
Fick, Ralph, 14, 15; suicide of, 15
Field, Marshall, 52
Fitch, Doctor: works for YMCA, 80
Fleeson, Doris, 46, 59
Florence, Italy, 120; door restoration in, 120
Flynn, Jane, 70
Foch, Marshall Ferdinand, 6, 11; visits Richmond, 6
“Follow the Gleam” (song), 23
Food and Drug Administration, 133; and laboratory animals, 132; facility in Beltsville, 134
Forest Hills Woman’s Club, 30
Forever the Wild Mare (Free), 128, 136
Fork Union Military Academy: father attends, 7
Fortress Lee: see Camp Lee
Foundry Methodist Church, 62
fox hunting, 146-47, 149; huntsman, 149; master of fox hounds, 149; on New Year’s Day, 150; pink coats, 150
Foxhall Village (Washington, D.C.), 127
France: and Marshall plan and wine crop, 118
Franck, Caesar, 32
Franco, Generalissimo Francisco, 30
Franklin Pierce sofa, 16
Fransden, Julius (Jay), 131
Fransden, Ruth, 131
Free French, 62
Free, Ann Cottrell: and “go cart,” 2; struck by car, 3-4; first experience with animals, 6; cat and kittens at home of, 6, 144; and influenza pandemic, 10-11; education of, 11,12, 17, 18; rides horses, 13, 14, 20, 148; tomboy, 14; attends Collegiate School for Girls, 15, 18, 20, 31, 34, 90; and athletics, 19, 20; editor of Collegiate yearbook, 19; impact of Collegiate School on, 20; goes to Camp Mont Shenandoah, 21-25; works at Camp Okahawis, 24, 25, 26; attends VCU, 26, 28; attends Barnard College, 26-28, 33, 38; works at Newsweek, 27; wins third place in literary competition, 28; editor of VCU yearbook, 28; meets Thomas Wolfe, 29; writes poem on Spanish Civil War, 30; works for Richmond Times Dispatch, 30, 39; Jim Free proposes, 32; in Hollywood, 34, 35, 36, 37; works for Paramount studios, 35; moves to New York, 36; moves to Newsweek Washington Bureau, 37, 38, 40; covers White House, 38, 53, 54; first woman at Newsweek Washington Bureau, 41; learns to use teletype, 42; covers FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt, 42, 44; covers opening of National Gallery of Art, 42, 43; attends Marian Anderson’s concert, 51; works for Chicago Sun, 52, 53, 54, 56, 60; works for New York Herald-Tribune, 52, 56, 60, 61; Rex Smith interested in, 55-56; visits Egypt, 58, 101; meets Winston Churchill, 62; joins UNRRA in China, 64- 65; transits Panama Canal, 66; takes Chinese lessons aboard Empire Joy, 66, 69; crossing the Equator, 68; in China, 69-91; and Chou En-lai, 73; trip to Hunan province, 75-78; rides in LST, 75; gets pneumonia, 76; visits Changsha, 76; rides in sedan chair, 76; visits Hangyang province, 78; flies in C-47, 79; visits Hangkow, 79; visits Kaifeng, 80; trip to Manchuria, 80-86; visits Changchun, 82, 84; visits Harbin, 84; on rickshaw drivers, 86; visits Great Wall of China, 89; travels around the world with Verna Mae Feuerhelm, 89- 111; visits Indochina, 91; visits Burma, 95, 96; visits Thailand, 95, 96; visits India, 97, 98; trip to Kashmir, 97; in Sinai refugee camp, 99, 100-101; travels to Cairo, sees George Polk, 102; travels to Israel and Palestine, 103, 104; visits Berlin, 104; makes PX purchases for Thea Weckerle, 105; visits Baden Baden, 106; article on democratizing Germany, 107; and transportation of currency, 107-108; and Paris and fashion houses, 111, 112; visits Dunkirk, 112; joins Marshall Plan as special correspondent, 113, 116-22, meets Rebecca West, 114; photographs published in Life magazine, 116; leaves Herald Tribune, 116; in France, 117, 118; in Italy, 117; visits Capri, 120; visits Florence, 120; sees Sistine Chapel, 120; meets Tennessee Williams, 120; visits Trieste, 121; visits Vienna, 121; marries James S. Free, 123; writes for North American Newspaper Alliance, 124, 130; writes for The Washington Star, 124, 130, 141; writes for The Washington Post, 124, 141; involved in Brownies and PTA, 127; hates zoos, 128; writes Forever the Wild Mare, 128, 136; and Humane Slaughter Law, 129, 130, 131, 132, 155; writes for Women’s News Service, 130; and laboratory animals, 132, 133, 134; and Rachel Carson, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139; invites Rachel Carson to speak at Women’s National Press Club, 136; illness and death of mother, 139-40; writes Meat: The End of the Affair, 141; illness of, 141; writes for Enviro South, 141; on board of Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, 141; writes poetry on animals, 142; No Room Save in the Heart, 142; travels to Morocco, Spain, Portugal, Tunisia, Malta, Gibraltar, Alsace and Brittany, 143; theme of betrayal toward animals throughout life, 144, 145, 146; fox hunts, 146-47; rides with mother, 149; first riding accident, 149; blooded at fox hunt, 150
Free, Elissa Blake, 1; attends St. Patrick’s Nursery School, 127; attends Sidwell Friends, 127; works for CBS, 142; works for CNN, 142-43
Free, James Stillman (Jim), 31, 37, 42, 52, 53, 60, 74, 122, 128, 141; sailing trip, 31; works for Washington Evening Star, 32, 53; proposes to ACF, 32; writes on defense issues, 55; marries ACF, 123; works for Birmingham News, 126
Freeman, Dorothy, 138
French Foreign Legion, 92, 94-95
Friend, Howard, 36
Froggy: see Marian West
Furman, Bess, 46
G
Gaines, Miss Edith Pendleton, 19
Gallagher, Miss, 19
Gandhi, Indira, 125
Garfinkels’s, 111, 125
Gasch, Mr., 46
Gasch, Marie Manning, 46
Gayton coal mines, 6, 9
Genissiat: hydroelectric plant at, 119
Geolrile, Dr., 139
George: workman at coal yard, 17, 146
George Polk Memorial Award, 58
George School, 21
Georges-Picot, Nadia, 92
Georgetown (Washington, D.C.): ACF lives in, 42, 55, 57; post office branch, 42
Georgetown Institute of Language and Linguistics, 126
ghats: burning, 97
Gilmer, Henry, 37
Gilmour, Austin, 31; owns sailboat, 31
Ginger (dog), 144
Ginter Park Woman’s Club, 30
Glasgow, Ellen, 150
Glover Archbold Park (Washington, D.C.), 124
Gobi Desert, 86
Godsell, Catherine, 125, 126
Godsell, William, 125, 126
Godsen, Freeman, 16
Golden Egg (restaurant), 113
Graves Registration: Pegge Parker work for, 80
Gray Lamb and Black Falcon (West), 100, 113, 115
Great Britain: and Palestine Mandate, 61, 62
Great Eastern Hotel (Calcutta), 95
Great Wall of China, 89
Greece, 58, 103
Griffin, Josephine, 30
Griffith, Edward, 35
Griffith Stadium (Washington, D.C.), 54
Gythfeldt, Kaare, 75, 76, 78
H
Haight, Hazel, 126
Haight, William, 126
Hallonan, Toivb, 37
Hamilton Arms, 42
Hamilton Arms Restaurant, 42
Handelsbank: Hong Kong branch, 66
Harrison, Ruth, 151
Harsh, Joseph, 122
Haskins, Mari, 12
Hayden, Sterling: ACF meets, 35, 36
Hayes, Evie, 43
Hayes, Jack, 43
Heligon, Simone Bosc, 117-18, 119
Helm, Edith Benham, 50
Henry, Barkley, 125
Herskowitz, Issy, 87
Hickock, Lorena, 45
Higgins, Marguerite, 64
Higgins, Marianna, 19
Highball (pony), 147
“Highwayman” (Noyes), 23
Hill, James, 11
Hill, Lister, 133: and laboratory animals, 133, 134
Hill, Russell, 58
Hindus, Maurice, 30
Hines Funeral Home, 42
Hiss, Alger, 58, 122; trial of, 115
Hitler, Adolph, 38, 39, 63; bunker of, 104, 105
Ho Chi Minh, 74, 92, 124
Hollywood, 34, 37
Holman, Frank, 59, 60
holocaust, 61, 63, 104, 126
Holy Trinity Church: ACF attends, 34
Hong Kong, 66, 68, 90, 91
Hormel Corp.: use of carbon dioxide chamber for slaughter, 129
Hornaday, Mary, 59
horse shows, 148
House of Wu: and famine in China, 77
Howitzer Armory, Richmond, Virginia: horseshows at, 148
Hsai, Louis, 91
Hull, Cordell, 53
Humane Slaughter bill, 30, 129, 131, 132, 155; and captive bolt pistol, 129; and carbon dioxide chamber, 129; and electrical stunning, 129; Congressional hearings, 130; and impact of press conference, 131
humane societies, 153
Humane Society of the United States, 72, 135, 142; mother belongs to, 129
Humphrey, Hubert: and Human Slaughter Bill, 130, 131, 155
Hunan Province: famine in, 75
Hungjao (Shanghai suburb), 72
hunter trials, 148
Hunter, Williams, Allison, Gaye and Moore (law firm), 147
“Hunting from the Fox’s Point of View” (Free), 147
Hurley, Mrs. Patrick, 54
Huse, Robert, 116
Hyde Park: Roosevelt papers at, 45, 46
Hygeia Hospital, 10
I
India: and partition, 96-97
Indochina, 91
International News Service, 47
International Refugee Organization, 99
International Society for Animal Rights, 156, 157
Irawaddy River, 96
Israel, 61, 103, 104
Italy, 103
J
Jabotinsky, Ari, 61
Jackson, Thomas (Stonewall): statue of in Richmond, 88
James, Claude, 55, 60, 61, 62, 91
James, Edmund Leland, 55
James, Michel, 55
James, Monique, 55
James, Simone, 55
James Joyce Society, 111
Japan, 38, 53; Barnard students boycott, 38; embassy of, 54; and occupation of China, 85
Jardine Matheson, 66-67, 72, 73
Jewish Liberation Front, 61
Jim Crow laws, 51
John Marshall High School, 18, 19, 31
John Widdicombe Company, 33
Johnson, Margaret, 28, 29, 30, 33
Jolas, Eugene, 112
Jones, Colman, 57
Jones, Helen, 131, 132, 156; founder of International Society for Animal Rights, 156; founder of
National Catholic Animal Welfare Society, 156; on Humane Slaughter Bill, 157
Joyce, Mrs., 125
Joyce, James, 109, 111; son, 109
junks (boats), 70
K
Kaleo, Dr.: and animal euthanasia, 152
Kaltenborn, H.V., 39
kamiss (fermented mares milk), 87
Kashmir, 97
Kaster, Maxine, 55, 61
Katie (dog), 144
Kempton, Ann Landon, 25, 26; suicide of, 25
Kempton, Joseph, 25, 26
Kempton, William Allen, 26
Keswick, Anthony, 73
Keswick, Clare, Lady, 66, 72, 73, 91
Keswick, John, Lord, 66, 73, 74, 91
Keswick, Maggie, 74
King David Hotel (Jerusalem), 103
Kmny, Nong: Cambodian ambassador to U.S., 124
Knebel, Fletcher, 126
Kook, Hillel: see Bergson, Peter
kosher laws: and Humane Slaughter bill, 131, 155
Kouras, Cosmo de, 97
Kra Isthmus, 96
Krull, Germaine, 95
Kulsar, David, 76
L
laboratory animals, 132, 138, 157; Welfare Act, 134
Larner, Henry, 37
Latimer, Jimmy, 31
Laval, Pierre, 62
Lawrence, William, 63, 123, 124
League of Michigan Home Dailies, 59
League of Women Voters, 138
Lear, Linda, 139
Lee, Robert E.: statue of in Richmond, 88
Lehman, Herbert, 65
Leon, Paul, 109, 110; died in Auschwitz, 109
Leonard, Harry, 39
Leonard, Maggie, 39
Leonard, “Miss Bunny,” 39
Levi, Carlo, 120
Li Li San, 84
Lieberman, Henry, 73, 74
Life magazine, 116
Lincoln Memorial, 51
Lindeman, Edith, 34-35
Lindley, Betty, 40
Lindley, Ernest, 40, 41
Literary Quarterly (Barnard publication), 28
Little, Herbert, 45
lobbyists: and laboratory animals, 134
Loehr, Alis, 21
Loewenthal, Ariadne Lucanov, 126; develops machine translations, 126; injured, 127
Loewenthal, Rudolph, 80, 126, 127; interest in Chinese Jews, 80; escaped to China before holocaust, 126
Look Homeward Angel (Wolfe), 29
Louisa County (Va.) Historical Society Magazine: ACF writes article for, 9
Luther (horse), 148
Lydda, (Israel), 103
M
Macao, 91
machine translations: see Ariadne Lucanov Loewenthal
MacKay, Eric Alexander Reinhart, Baron, 66, 67, 68, 91
MacMurray, Fred: ACF meets, 35, 36
Mallory, Miss, 19
Malraux, Andre, 93
Mammy: see Walker, Adelaide
Manchuria, 80, 85, 105; Hulatao, 82; Mukden, 82; and German refugees, 83; Harbin, 84; communist Chinese in, 84
Mann, Helen, 18
Manville, Tommy, 37
Mao Tse-tung, 73-74, 84, 85; and cultural revolution, 78
March, Frederic, 35
Marchant, John, 42
Marshall, George C., 84; in China, 73, 85; and Marshall Plan, 113
Marshall Field and Company, 52
Marshall Plan, 116-22; headquarters, 117; counterpart funds, 118
Martin, Jackie, 53
Martin, Lee, 80, 81, 82, 84
Martin, Robert (“Pepper”), 80
Mary, Queen of Scots: portrait, 16
Masaryk, Jan, 115
Massey, David, 60
Matier, Mildred, 24
Maury, Mathew Fontaine, 87, 89
May Day: ACF witnesses communist celebration of, 121
Mayflower Hotel (Washington, D.C.), 56
McAllister, Gerald, 43, 44, 69, 70, 71, 75, 79; encourages ACF to go to China, 64
McAllister, Jane, 43
McArdle, Lee, 119, 122
McCain, Admiral John, 57
McCain, Senator John, 57
McCarthy, Colman, 31
McClendon, Sarah, 131
McCormick, Col. Robert, 46, 53
McCoy, Prof. Jesse, 28
McDougal, Maude, 47
McGonnigle, George, 40, 42
McGrath, Hugo, 41
McKiernan, Douglas, 93
McKiernan, Pegge Parker, 80, 81, 84, 93; works for Graves Registration, 80
McKinley, William, 47
McNamara, Fred, 36
Mekong River, 95
Mellon, Andrew: donates collection for National Gallery of Art, 42-43
Meyer, Eugene, 49
Michael (dog), 126
Michaels, Anna, 63
Michaels, Eva, 63
Michaels, Margaret Walters (Aunt Maggie), 10
Michaels, Percy, 63
Michaels, Sue, 63
Miller, Dr., 49
Miller, Hope Ridings 49, 60
Millican, Dr. Edith, 78
Modern Maturity (magazine): ACF writes article on Eleanor Roosevelt for, 44
Mollenhoff, Clark, 126
Mongolia, 82
Mongolian wild horse: ACF writes Forever the Wild Mare, 128, 136
Monroe Room (White House), 49; Eleanor Roosevelt press conference in, 44
Monte Casino (Italy), 119
Montenegrins: in Sinai refugee camps, 99
Montgomery, Ruth, 60
Montgomery County Humane Society: management of, 140
Moore, Mrs. 13
Moore, Alvin, 13, 14
Moore, Lee, 13, 14
Mordecai family, 19
Morris, Jack, 31; death of, 31
Motherel, Cornelia Little, 45
Mt. Everest, 97
Munitions Building (Washington, D.C.), 54
Mussolini, Benito, 58
Myers, Fred: and Humane Slaughter Law, 129
N
Nagel, Rita, 121
Nancy (pony), 147
Nanking (China), 73
National Gallery of Art: opening of, 42, 43, 63
National Geographic magazine, 16
National Humane Review: ACF sends article to, 147
National Press Building, 40, 52, 53
National Press Club, 41
National Recovery Act (NRA), 20
National Register for Historic Preservation, 144
National Theater, 51
National Zoo, 59, 136
Nehru, Jawaharal, 125
Nellie (maid), 11
New Jersey: West Orange, 27; Lake Hopatcong, 27; Hoboken, 65
New York Daily News, 46, 56, 59
New York Herald Tribune, 44, 52, 57, 58, 59, 61, 89, 101, 108, 111, 122; Washington Bureau, 31, 56; ACF joins, 56; ACF takes leave of absence from, 64, 65; ACF article on Manchuria, 85; ACF article on Iron Curtain, 103; ACF article on democratizing Germany, 107; ACF writes articles on Germany, 104; London Bureau of, 115; ACF leaves, 116
New York Times, 31, 52, 55, 63, 73, 89, 91, 123; Washington Bureau, 31; and letters on laboratory animals, 133
Newkirk, Ingrid, 140
Newton, Bill, 102
Newsday, 60
Newsweek, 42, 51-52, 53, 55; ACF joins, 27, 37; ACF at Washington Bureau of, 38; ACF first woman at Washington Bureau, 41; ACF memorandum on opening of National Gallery of Art, 43
Nixon, Patricia: ACF meets, 128-29
Nixon, Richard, 122, 128; ACF meets, 128-29
No Room Save in the Heart (Free), 142
“Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” (song), 51
Noel (dog), 60
Noel, Lucie, 108, 109; sends items to husband in Auschwitz, 110; and Paris fashion houses, 112
Nolting, Buford, 31
Nooter, Amanda, 143
Nooter, Bill, 2, 142; marriage to Elissa Free, 142; attends St. John’s College, 143
Nooter, Nancy, 120
Normal School (A.P. Hill School), 12
North American Newspaper Alliance, 49: ACF writes for, 124, 130
Noyes, Alfred, 23
O
Observer, The, 113
O’Donnell, John, 46, 59
Office of Civilian Defense: and Eleanor Roosevelt, 47, 48
Office of Strategic Services, 47; and Indochina, 124
opium trade: in China, 67
Oppenheimer family, 19
Oriental Hotel (Bangkok), 95; run by spy, 95
Orso, Mr., 138
OSS: see Office of Strategic Services
Ottoman Empire, 61, 104
Oudine, John, 26, 36, 39, 90, 91; writes “World Letters” for Time magazine, 27; goes to China, 27; at Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 74
Outer Mongolia, 16
Oxford University, 33, 39
P
Page (horse), 148
Pakistan: and partition, 96-97
Palestine, 61, 62, 103, 104
Pan American Coffee Bureau, 40
Pan Hellenic Association: sponsors literary contest, 28
Panama Canal: ACF transits, 66
Pandit, Mrs. (aunt of Indira Gandhi), 125
Paramount Studios, 35
Park Fairfax Apartments: Nixons live at, 128
Parker, Pegge: see McKiernan, Pegge Parker
Pasley, Virginia, 59, 60
Patches (dog), 144
Patterson, Cissy, 46
Patterson, Col. Joseph, 46
Patton, General George, 62
Patton, Sally, 34
Pearl Harbor, 44; attack on, 53, 54
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, 140
People magazine 36
Pepin: French Nazi, 110
Perez, Fernando, 53
Pershing, General John J., 6
pesticides, 136
Petain, Marshal Henri Philippe, 62
Philippines, 66, 68
Picherella, Jeannette A., 66
Pickens family, 128
Pickwick Arms (hotel), 36, 39
Picture Play (magazine), 36
Piedmont Manor, 36
pigs: and slaughter of, 129
Pittard, Admiral George, 34
Pittypat (pony), 148
Poage, Congressman: and Humane Slaughter bill, 130, 131
pocket veto: and Humane Slaughter Bill, 131, 156
Polk, George, 101-02; death of, 58
Poppy (dog), 144
Powell, Lewis F., Jr. (Supreme Court Justice), 147
Preston, Edmund, 147
Pumphrey, Maade, 22
Pumphrey, Margaret, 22
Purdy, Crawford, 96
Q
Quartermaster Corps (United States Army), 43
Quinn, Sally, 60
R
Rachel Carson Council, 136, 138
Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge, 137
“Rag-O-Toggle-Gypsies, OH!” (song), 23
Rags (puppy), 15
Ramstetter, Emily Crump, 22
Randolph Macon Women’s College, 10
Rangoon (Burma), 95
Rayburn, Sam, 49
Reader’s Digest, 80
Reed, Mr. (American consul in Saigon), 93
refugee camps: German, 104; in Sinai desert, 98, 99, 113
refugees, 61, 99, 100
Reid, Helen Rogers, 56, 65
Reimers, Betsy, 139
Reimers, Marie, 90, 139
Reimers, Paul, 139
Rendell, Richard, 40
Resnick, Congressman: and animal rights, 134, 135
Reuters, 91
Richard, Davis, 40
Richmond, Virginia, 7, 39, 42, 43, 61, 63, 140, 146; birth of ACF, 1; West Grace Street, 1, 2, 11, 12, 14, 20, 90; Park Avenue, 2, 5, 6, 11; Fan District of, 2; Westhampton suburb, 6; old city hall, 6; Monument Avenue, 6, 11, 18, 19; Foch visits, 6; Shepherd’s Tract, 11; Allen Avenue, 11; Kensington Avenue, 12; Broad Street, 12; Scot’s Addition, 12; Patterson Street, 12; riding academy on Cherry Street, 13; fire at stockyards, 17; Floyd Avenue, 18; book on Jewish community in 19; Franklin Street, 29; theater in, 32
Richmond Division of the College of William and Mary, 28
Richmond Film Society, 39
Richmond SPCA, 23; ACF mother assistant director of, 150; Ellen Glasgow president of, 150; euthanasia at, 150, 151, 152
Richmond Times Dispatch, 19, 29, 33, 34, 38, 39, 85; ACF works for, 30; drama and movie critic for, 35; ACF resigns from 36, 37
Richmond Virginia Historic magazine, 33
Richmond Women’s College, 10
Ripley, Josephine, 124
Ripley, Mary, 143
Ripley, Sylvia, 143
Robert E. Lee Grammar School, 11, 12
Romig, Dr.: and animal euthanasia, 152, 153
Rommel, General Irwin, 62
Rooks, Lowell: director general of UNRRA, 78-79
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 40, 45, 50, 56, 57, 64; ACF covers, 42, 44; press conference of, 44, 47, 49; Assistant Head of Office of Civilian Defense, 47, 48; letter from ACF re: India and China, 97
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 45, 53, 64, 69; radio address, 20; and declaration of war, 53-54; ACF sees at Christmas service, 62
Roscoe, Mei Lin, 71
Rothstein, Arthur, 75, 76, 78; Dust Bowl photographs, 75
Royal SPCA (Great Britain), 151
Russell, Ned, 115
Russia, 61; and German refugees, 83; prisoners of war in, 83
Ryan, Autumn, 80, 81
Ryan, Leo, 80-81
S
S.H. Cottrell and Son, Coal Merchants, 7; use horses, 17; workmen at, 17
Sachs, Lois, 27, 38, 51
Sadler, Christine, 48
Saigon (Vietnam), 91, 93
Salam, Nina: character in Gray Lamb and Black Falcon, 100, 113, 114
Sale, Mr.: and animal euthanasia, 151
Salmon, Mildred, 66
Salonika (Greece), 102-3; death of George Polk, 58
sampans, 70
Sanctified Sisters Church: ACF writes article on, 33
Sands, Jack, 147
Schweitzer, Albert, 46, 80, 106, 136; and Lamborene Hospital, 141; impact on ACF, 141;
Pphilosophy of, 142
SScott, George Cole, 147
Scripps Howard, 44
Sea Around Us, The (Carson), 135
Seal Brothers, 96
Seimans Corp., 106
Selzer, Alice, 5
Serbs: in Sinai refugee camps, 99
Shackelford, Miss, 12
Shanghai (China), 56, 67, 70, 71, 72, 86, 89, 90; the Bund, 69; foreign concessions, 69; Cathy Mansions, 69; Circle Sportif, 69
Shanghai Post and Mercury, 71
sheep: slaughter of, 129
Shepard Pratt Hospital, 25
Shepherd, Lee, 34
Short, Joseph, 54
Silent Spring (Carson), 135, 138
Sinai desert, 98; refugee camp in, 98, 99, 100-101
Sinkiang (China), 93
Sistine Chapel, 120
Skewes, Jan, 93
slaughter houses, 153
Small, Bob, 21, 22
Smith, C.R., 55
Smith, John Chabot, 57, 58
Smith, Rex, 37, 40, 53, 55
Snead, Miss, 12
Soochow Creek; sampans on, 70, 71
Spanish Civil War, 30, 38
Spanish Influenza pandemic, 10, 11
Spence, Miss, 37
Spring Valley (Washington, D.C.), 125
St. John’s Church, Washington, D.C.: ACF married at, 123
Standard, Dr.: and animal euthanasia, 152
Steele, Art, 85
Stein, Gertrude, 112
Stephenson, Malvina: 48, 49, 59, 60
Stevens, Christine: and Humane Slaughter bill, 129, 130, 135, 156
Stocker, Dr. Arthur, 1
Stocker, Marian West, 1, 4, 22, 23, 36
Strand Hotel (London), 113
Straus, Frank, 20
Strayer, Martha, 44, 45, 50; and theater roof collapse, 44-45
Stuart, James E.B.: statue of in Richmond, 88
Stuttgart (Germany), 83, 105
Suez Canal, 105; ACF; difficulties at, 98, 99
Sun Yat-sen, 81
Swift Corporation, 130
Switzerland, 111
Sycle, Dorothy, 19
T
Taksang (ship), 67
Talley, Rhea, 30, 31, 33; writes “Talley- Ho” column in Richmond Times Dispatch, 31
Tamara, Sonya, 64
Tavel, Emily, 59
Tcha-tze: dumplings, 68
Teak Wallah (Campbell), 96
Teanhe bowl, 87
teletype: ACF learns to use, 41
Tewfik (Egypt), 99
Thailand, 95
This Week, 137
Thomas, Helen, 131
Thompson, Malvina, 49
Thraves, Mercy, 88
Thraves, Patricia, 88, 89
Thuroczy, Maria, 127
Tibet, 97
Time magazine, 27, 43; “World Letters” column, 27
Times, The, 96, 113
Timmons, Bascom, 52, 53, 60
Tina (dog), 60
tobacco stems, 65
Todd, Larry, 79
Topping, Audrey, 89
Topping, Seymour, 89
Trans-Siberian Railroad, 89
Trieste, 121
Tsingtao (China), 90
Tuckahoe [Women’s] Club, 30
Tucker, Lem, 142
Tucker, Dr. William Randolph, 25
Tufty, Esther Van Wagoner (“Duchess”), 59
Tulsa World, 49
Turkey, 103
Twin Oaks (West estate), 114
Twitty, Tom, 57
U
U.P.: see United Press International
Uhl, Gladys, 111
United Daughters of the Confederacy, 30
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 44, 64, 69, 74, 75, 83, 90, 99; ACF joins, 65; Washington office of, 70; offices at Embankment Building, 70; program, 71; and Chinese governmental corruption, 78; attempt to rebuilt Yellow River levees, 79; supplies in Manchuria, 80; in Changchun, 82; in Harbin, 84
United Press International, 131; and Humane Slaughter Bill, 132, 156
United States Information Service, 93
University of Maryland, 59
University of Virginia, 1, 33, 39
UNRRA: see United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
V
Van Wagoner, Governor, 59
VCU, 28; ACF editor of yearbook, 28
Venus (horse), 148
veterinarians: and animal rights, 135
Vichy France, 62
Vienna (Austria), 121
Vietnam, 124
Virginia: Edinburg, 1; Shenandoah County, 1, 61, 144; Fluvanna County, 7; Louisa, 8, 14; Millboro Springs, 21; Bath County, 21; Annandale, 21; Orkney Springs, 21; Burnsville, 21, 22; Clifton Forge, 24; Goshen Pass, 24; Lexington, 24 Asheville, 29; Charlottesville, 35, 36, 37; Petersburg, 43; Fairfax, County, 46; Shenandoah County, 50; Clark County, 50; Norfolk, 65; Williamsburg, 71; see also Richmond
“Virginia” (movie), 35
Virginia Communist party, 39
Virginia Historical Society, 34
Virginia Library, 33
Vuckovic, Dr. 114; and Maria Banicevic, 100, 114
W
Wacherle, Thea, 98
WACS, 56
Wagonlit Hotel, 86
Walker, Adelaide (Adeline) (Mammy of ACF), 1, 2, 3, 15-16, 51, 146
Walker, Aldous, 56
Walters, James Augustus (great-grandfather of ACF), 9
Walters, Susanna Snow Booth (great-grandmother of ACF), 9, 17; portrait of, 16
Wangpo River, 69
Wardman Park Hotel (Washington, D.C.), 124
Washington, D.C., 122; dog pound: ACF writes about, 152
Washington Animal Rescue League, 153; conditions at, 151
Washington Daily News, 44
Washington Monument, 125
Washington Post, 43, 48, 49; Women’s Department, 49
Washington Star, 53, 124; Jim Free works for, 32; ACF writes for, 124, 130; and elephant at National Zoo, 124; and letters on laboratory animals, 133
Washington Times-Herald, The, 46
Washingtonian magazine: ACF writes on Washington D.C. dog pound, 152
water buffalo, 77
Watson, Fontaine Maury Thraves, 87, 88, 89
Watson, Tom, 87; suicide of, 88
WAVES, 56
Weckerle, Thea, 83, 106: and German Red Coss pin, 83; ACF meets again in Germany, 105; works for Seimans, 106; ACF transports currency for, 107, 108
Wells, Cappie, 71; and currency speculation, 72
West, Annie, 23
West, Anthonoy, 114
West, Aunt Mamie (Mary), 7, 8
West, Mosby, 8
West, Mosby, 8
West, Mary, 23
West, Nannie, 22, 23, 24
West, Rebecca, 100, 113, 114
West, Dr. William Johnson (uncle of ACF), 1, 4, 5, 23, 36
Wheaton, Anne, 156; White House press secretary, 132
Wheaton, Warren, 54
Who Says We Can’t Cook (Women’s National Press Club), 68
Widdicombe, John, 33, 34, 39
Wilhelm, Jane Gilmer, 37, 53
Willard Hotel (Washington, D.C.), 56
William Fox School, 11
Williams, Tennessee, 120
Wilson, Edmund: writings and philosophy of, 154
Wilson, Mrs. Woodrow, 50
Windmill (horse), 13,146,149; put down, 148
Windrock (mare), 149
Wolfe, Thomas, 28, 29
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 30
Woman’s Club, 26, 30
Women’s Bureau, 50
Women’s National Press Club, 138; cookbook, 68; Rachel Carson invited to speak, 136
Women’s News Service: ACF writes for, 130
Wood, Grant, 50
Woodrow, Captain: aboard Empire Joy, 65
Woodson, Juliet, 19
Woolf, Virginia, 43, 77
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 20, 39; Writer’s Project, 33
World War I, 6, 10, 11, 55, 125
World War II, 100
WPA: see Works Progress Administration
Wright, Dorothea, 41
Y
Yangtze Gorge, 89
Yellow River (“China’s sorrow”), 79, 80; Japanese dynamite levees, 79
Yellow Sea, 81
Yien, Mr.: teaches ACF Chinese, 69
YMCA: in China, 80
You Can’t Go Home Again (Wolfe), 29
Young People’s Service League, 34
Young’s Art Gallery, 29
Z
Zionists, 61, 62; and British Mandate in Palestine, 104
AA.P. Hill School, 12
After Dark (pony), 148; ACF fall off, 149
Agra, India, 97
Albert Schweitzer Center, 142
Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, 141, 142
Allen, Caroline, 5, 6
Allen, Gracia, 5, 6
Allen, Helen, 5
Allen, Thelma: helps care for Emily Cottrell, 140
Allenby, General Edmund H.H., Lord, 125
Alsop, Dr. Wilamenda, 30
American Air Lines, 55
American Friends Service Ambulance Corps, 37
American Humane Society, 135
American Legion Auxiliary, 30
American Meat Institute: and Humane Slaughter Bill, 156
American Security Bank and Trust: fails during Depression, 20
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: see ASPCA
“Amos and Andy” (radio program), 16
Andartes (Greek rebels), 103
Anderson, Marian, 50-51
Andrews, Bert: N.Y. Herald Tribune Washington Bureau Chief, 57, 61, 122
Andrews, Cicely (pseud. Rebecca West), 114
Andrews, Nadine, 57
Angor Wat, 92, 93
Animal Welfare Act, 134, 135
Animal Welfare Institute, 142
Animals, Nature and Albert Schweitzer (Free), 142
Anthony, Miss, 17, 18
Arabs, 61, 62
Archbold Mansion (Washington, D.C.), 125
Arcturus-on-the-Potomac: home of Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, 60
Armstrong, Robert, 46
Army Air Corps, 44, 55
Army Nurse Corps, 66
Ashe, Arthur: statue of in Richmond, 88
ASPCA: and issues of humane slaughter, 155-56
Associated Press, 47; Topping writes for, 89
Audubon Book Shop: and ACF’s book, 136
Auschwitz, 158; P. Leon dies at, 109
“Ave Maria” (song): Marian Anderson sings, 51
Azrael, Sarah Lampert, 111
B
Babcock, Muriel, 36
Bad Girls (Delmar), 18
Baden Baden (Germany), 106
Baer, Manfred, 122
Baeyens, James, 91, 93
Baltimore Sun, 119
Bangkok (Thailand), 95, 96
Banicevic, Maria, 99-100, 101; model for character in Gray Lamb and Black Falcon, 100, 114
Barbeau, Henry, 92
Barbeau, Nina, 92
Barnard College, 33; ACF attends, 26-27; and anti-Japanese boycott, 38; ACF’s mother visits, 151
Barnes, Harold, 42
Barnett, Irving, 66
Barroughs, Isabel (Isabelle), 19; wrote column for Richmond Times Dispatch, 19
Bates, Beverly, 23
Beall, Jack, 57
Beasley, Maurine, 59
Beatrice Fairfax (advice column), 46
Begin, Menachem, 62
Behymer, Andy, 142
Bell, Sam, 57
Bemiss, Bill, 20-21
Bergen Belsen, 78
Bergson, Peter (Hillel Kook), 61, 62
Berk, Stan, 143
Berlin (Germany), 107; zones of occupation, 107
Besler, Max, 40
Betances, Mrs., 127
Bide a Wee (animal shelter), 151
Billy (horse), 22
Binford Junior High School, 17, 34
bird watching: and Rachel Carson, 136, 137
Birmingham News, 133, 137
Black, Ruby, 45
Blake, Emma Walters (grandmother of ACF), 1, 9, 10
Blake, George McDuffie (grandfather of ACF), 1, 2, 8, 9
Blue Eagle posters, 20
Blue Ridge Mountains, 21
“Blueprint for Education for Democ-ratizing Germany, A” (ACF), 107
BOAC (British Overseas Airway Corporation), 95
Bodine, Michael, 82
Boland, John, 68
Bombay (India), 98
Bonham (Texas), 49
Bonnie (dog), 126
Booth, Renee Rosin, 10, 11
Booth, Dorothy, 11
“Boris Gudunov” (movie), 39
Borodin, Michael, 81
Bosnians: in Sinai refugee camp, 99
Bosquet, David, 73
Bradlee, Ben, 60
Bradley, Irving, 12
Briggs, Shirley: and Rachel Carson, 136, 137, 138, 139
Brisk, Fay: and animal rights, 134
Brook Run Stables, 148-49
Brother Agius: works for animal rights, 156
Brown, Lois Loehr, 21
Buchenwald, 158
Buck, Mr., 84
Buddha bell, 70
Buddy (horse), 13
Bulgaria, 103
Bulletin, The (Barnard newspaper), 28
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Verna Feuerhelm works for, 90; Index, 90
Burke, Alice, 39
Burleith, Washington, D.C., 125
Burma, 95, 96
C
C & O: workman at coal yard, 17, 146
C-47 (“Dakota”), 79
Cabbage and Kings (Helm), 50
Cairo (Egypt), 58, 101
Cairo Hotel (Washington, D.C.), 45
Calcutta (India), 95; cows in, 96, 97
Cambodia, 92, 124; donates elephant to National Zoo, 124
Camp Lee (U.S. Army), 43
Camp Mont Shenandoah, 21, 24, 25; activities at, 21, 22, 23; Vespers at, 23; horseback riding at,
#23, 24
CCamp Okahawis, 26; ACF counselor at, 24, 25
Camp Wallawhatolla, 21
Campbell, Doon, 91
Campbell, Elspeth, 37
Campbell, Felicia, 37
Campbell, Georgina, 37
Campbell, Reginald, 96
Cannon, Hildegard, 137
Canton (China), 91
Capri, 120
captive bolt pistol: and humane slaughter, 129, 153; used in England, 129
Carrice, Charlie, 56
Carroll, Madeleine, 35, 36
Carson, Lee, 47
Carson, Rachel, 101, 135, 136, 138, 139; death of, 137, 139
Catholic Animal Welfare Study Group, 156
Cathy Mansions: ACF lives in, 69
Catledge, Turner, 52, 53
Cavin, Patty, 138, 139
Central Press Association, 49
Chambers, Whittaker, 122; and “Pumpkin Papers,” 122
Chaney, Mayris: and Office of Civilian Defense, 48
Chang Tso Lin (“Young Marshall”), 85
Chen, Anna: see Chennault, Anna Chen
Chen, Eugene, 81
Chen, Jack, 81, 82, 84
Chennault, Anna Chen, 72; and FDR Memorial, 72
Chesterman, Mrs. Evan, 25
Chetniks: in Sinai refugee camp, 99
Chiang Kai-shek, 81
Chiang Kai-shek, Madame: at Eleanor Roosevelt press conference, 50
Chicago Sun, 41, 53, 55, 56; Washington Bureau, 52, 53; ACF works for, 52, 54
Chicago Tribune, 47, 53
Children’s Bureau, 50
China, 16, 26, 27, 54; participation in World War II, 63; Kunming, 64, 75; famine in, 75; Changsha, 76, 78; hunger riots, 76; types of food relief, 76; governmental corruption, 77, 78; Shanghai, 78; cultural revolution, 78; Red Guards, 78; Jews in, 80; Changchun, 84; and Manchuria, 85: Northeastern Provinces, 85; Manchukuo, 85
Chinese communists, 73, 79, 82, 84, 85; and governmental corruption, 78
Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 71, 74
Chinese Nationalist government (Kuomintang), 73, 79, 82, 84-85
Chips (dog), 125
Chou En-lai, 73, 74, 75, 78, 85
Christ Stopped at Eboli (Levi), 120-21
Christian Science Monitor, 59, 122, 124
Chronicle, The, 113
Churchill, Winston, 62, 63, 64
Circle Sportif (Shanghai), 69
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 20, 21
Cleveland Park (Washington, D.C.), 41
Close, Upton, 54
CNRRA: see Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Coastal Maine Wildlife Refuge, 137
Cockrell, Lyttleton, 11
Cody, Morrill, 116
colic: in horses, 149
Collegiate School for Girls, 18, 20, 31, 34, 90; teachers at, 19; athletics at, 19
Columbia University, 26, 28, 38
communism, communist party, 38, 39, 103
concentration camps, 63
Congress (U.S.): and banning DDT and chlorinated hydrocarbons, 137
Constitution Hall: Marian Anderson banned from singing at, 51
Cook, Bob, 71, 72
Cook, Rita Nagel, 121
Cook, Wesley, 121
coolies, 79
Corduroy (horse), 9
Cornwall, Miss, 12
Cottrell, Emily Blake (mother of ACF), 1, 2, 3, 12, 23, 25, 65, 115, 122, 150; and cat and kittens, 6; meets husband, 9; education of, 10; rides horses, 9, 13; friendship with Ralph Fick, 14; destroys plates, 15; sends ACF to Collegiate School, 18, 31; and ACF introduction to Rex Smith, 37; assists ACF, 42; divorces husband, 65; illnesses of, 139-40; death of, 140; active in Richmond SPCA, 146, 150, 151; taught riding, 148-49, 150; rides Windrock, 149; rides with ACF, 149; visits Barnard, 151
Cottrell, Emmett (father of ACF), 1, 2, 5, 7, 12, 14-15, 17, 20, 149; meets wife, 9; loans horse to Camp Mont Shenandoah, 22; brings home brace of birds, 146
Cottrell, Julia (aunt of ACF), 7, 8
Cottrell, Julia Givenzel Crump (grandmother of ACF), 24; called G-Muds, 7
Cottrell, Leila (aunt of ACF), 7
Cottrell, Marian (aunt of ACF), 7
Cottrell, Pierre, 9
Cottrell, Sally (aunt of ACF), 7, 15
Cottrell, Samuel Henry (grandfather of ACF), 7, 9; called G-Dads, 7
Cottrell, Stuart (uncle of ACF), 7, 8
Cottrell, Walker Crump (uncle of ACF), 7, 9
Cow Pasture River, 21, 24
Cowan, Ruth, 47
Craig, May, 44, 47, 131
Craigh Isthmus: see Kra Isthmus
Craven, Eileen St. John Brennan, 37
Croats: in Sinai refugee camps, 99
Crump, Emily, 24
Crump, Robert, 24
Cullinane, Leo, 58, 59
Cullinane, Lou, 59
Cullinane, Robert, 58
D
DAR: see Daughters of the American Revolution
Daladier, Edouard, 62
Dan: workman at coal yard, 17
Dandy (pony), 147
Daughters of the American Revolution, 30, 51
Davis, G.K.: death of, 22-23
Davis, Katie Gilliam, 22
DDT, 136, 137
“Death of Floyd Collins” (song), 13
Deep Run Hunt Club, 12-13, 150; father charter member, 13; fox hunts at, 146-47
DeGaulle, General Charles, 62, 63
Delmar, Vinta, 18
Department of Agriculture, 134, 157; and laboratory animals, 132; ACF visits, 132-33; and animal testing, 133; designation LD-50, 133; Experimental Station, 134; and veterinarians, 135
Department of the Interior, 136; Fish and Wildlife Service, 137
Diamond, Eleanor, 24
Dickerson, Nancy Hanks, 138
Dien Bien Phu, 92
Dior: ACF visits, 111, 112
Distert, Lem, 126
Dixon, Jeanne, 60
Dodd, Mead and Company, 128
Donovan, William (“Wild Bill”), 47
Dorado, Miss, 30
Dorothy Dix (advice column), 46
Drewry, Ann Octavia, 17; portrait of, 16
Duff (cat), 13
Duke, Miss Florence, 17, 18
Dumbarton Oaks, 64
Duncan, Epre, 19
Dunkirk, 112
Dupont Circle (Washington, D.C.), 41, 47
Duveen, Joseph, (Lord Duveen of Millbank): and opening of National Gallery of Art, 42, 43, 63
E
Early, Stephen, 55
Economic Cooperation Administration: see Marshall Plan
Eddy, Nettie Mae, 140; helps with Free household, 127, 128
Edge, Jakie, 34
Edith and Her Ayah, 2
Egypt, 104, 114; see also Sinai desert
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 128; and Humane Slaughter bill, 129, 131, 156; possible use of pocket veto, 131; press conference and Humane Slaughter bill, 131; signs Humane Slaughter bill, 131
Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia, 45, 59
electrical stunning: for animal slaughter, 129
Ellen Prince Speyer Home (animal shelter), 151
El-Shatt (Egypt), 99
“Elms, The:” Blake family home, 9
Embassy Row (Miller), 49
Emily Post, 143
Empire Joy (ship), 65, 67, 68; recreation aboard, 68
Enviro South: ACF writes for, 141
Equus Przewalski: see Mongolian wild horse
Ernest, Bert, 14
Ernest, Clyde, 14
Ernest, James, 14
Ernest, Jesse, 14
Ernest, Mary, 14; suicide of, 14
Esskay Corp., 130
Ethopia, 98
euthanasia: of animals, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154
“Evangeline” (Longfellow): ACF memorizes, 17
Evans, Silliman, 52, 53, 55
F
Farm Security Administration: Arthur Rothstein works for, 75
Farmington Hunt Club, 35
Farrell, Elizabeth, 111; at Garfinkel’s, 111
Farrow, Steven, 25, 26
fascism, 38, 103
Faulkner, Sara, 25
FDR Memorial: A. Chennault on board for, 72
Federal Register, 134
feed lots, 157
Feuerhelm, Verna Mae, 89, 93, 122, 139; works for Bureau of Labor Statistics, 90; travels around the world with ACF, 90-112; and star sapphire, 95; in Paris, 117
Fick, Dorsey, 14
Fick, Laura Dorsey, 14
Fick, Ralph, 14, 15; suicide of, 15
Field, Marshall, 52
Fitch, Doctor: works for YMCA, 80
Fleeson, Doris, 46, 59
Florence, Italy, 120; door restoration in, 120
Flynn, Jane, 70
Foch, Marshall Ferdinand, 6, 11; visits Richmond, 6
“Follow the Gleam” (song), 23
Food and Drug Administration, 133; and laboratory animals, 132; facility in Beltsville, 134
Forest Hills Woman’s Club, 30
Forever the Wild Mare (Free), 128, 136
Fork Union Military Academy: father attends, 7
Fortress Lee: see Camp Lee
Foundry Methodist Church, 62
fox hunting, 146-47, 149; huntsman, 149; master of fox hounds, 149; on New Year’s Day, 150; pink coats, 150
Foxhall Village (Washington, D.C.), 127
France: and Marshall plan and wine crop, 118
Franck, Caesar, 32
Franco, Generalissimo Francisco, 30
Franklin Pierce sofa, 16
Fransden, Julius (Jay), 131
Fransden, Ruth, 131
Free French, 62
Free, Ann Cottrell: and “go cart,” 2; struck by car, 3-4; first experience with animals, 6; cat and kittens at home of, 6, 144; and influenza pandemic, 10-11; education of, 11,12, 17, 18; rides horses, 13, 14, 20, 148; tomboy, 14; attends Collegiate School for Girls, 15, 18, 20, 31, 34, 90; and athletics, 19, 20; editor of Collegiate yearbook, 19; impact of Collegiate School on, 20; goes to Camp Mont Shenandoah, 21-25; works at Camp Okahawis, 24, 25, 26; attends VCU, 26, 28; attends Barnard College, 26-28, 33, 38; works at Newsweek, 27; wins third place in literary competition, 28; editor of VCU yearbook, 28; meets Thomas Wolfe, 29; writes poem on Spanish Civil War, 30; works for Richmond Times Dispatch, 30, 39; Jim Free proposes, 32; in Hollywood, 34, 35, 36, 37; works for Paramount studios, 35; moves to New York, 36; moves to Newsweek Washington Bureau, 37, 38, 40; covers White House, 38, 53, 54; first woman at Newsweek Washington Bureau, 41; learns to use teletype, 42; covers FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt, 42, 44; covers opening of National Gallery of Art, 42, 43; attends Marian Anderson’s concert, 51; works for Chicago Sun, 52, 53, 54, 56, 60; works for New York Herald-Tribune, 52, 56, 60, 61; Rex Smith interested in, 55-56; visits Egypt, 58, 101; meets Winston Churchill, 62; joins UNRRA in China, 64- 65; transits Panama Canal, 66; takes Chinese lessons aboard Empire Joy, 66, 69; crossing the Equator, 68; in China, 69-91; and Chou En-lai, 73; trip to Hunan province, 75-78; rides in LST, 75; gets pneumonia, 76; visits Changsha, 76; rides in sedan chair, 76; visits Hangyang province, 78; flies in C-47, 79; visits Hangkow, 79; visits Kaifeng, 80; trip to Manchuria, 80-86; visits Changchun, 82, 84; visits Harbin, 84; on rickshaw drivers, 86; visits Great Wall of China, 89; travels around the world with Verna Mae Feuerhelm, 89- 111; visits Indochina, 91; visits Burma, 95, 96; visits Thailand, 95, 96; visits India, 97, 98; trip to Kashmir, 97; in Sinai refugee camp, 99, 100-101; travels to Cairo, sees George Polk, 102; travels to Israel and Palestine, 103, 104; visits Berlin, 104; makes PX purchases for Thea Weckerle, 105; visits Baden Baden, 106; article on democratizing Germany, 107; and transportation of currency, 107-108; and Paris and fashion houses, 111, 112; visits Dunkirk, 112; joins Marshall Plan as special correspondent, 113, 116-22, meets Rebecca West, 114; photographs published in Life magazine, 116; leaves Herald Tribune, 116; in France, 117, 118; in Italy, 117; visits Capri, 120; visits Florence, 120; sees Sistine Chapel, 120; meets Tennessee Williams, 120; visits Trieste, 121; visits Vienna, 121; marries James S. Free, 123; writes for North American Newspaper Alliance, 124, 130; writes for The Washington Star, 124, 130, 141; writes for The Washington Post, 124, 141; involved in Brownies and PTA, 127; hates zoos, 128; writes Forever the Wild Mare, 128, 136; and Humane Slaughter Law, 129, 130, 131, 132, 155; writes for Women’s News Service, 130; and laboratory animals, 132, 133, 134; and Rachel Carson, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139; invites Rachel Carson to speak at Women’s National Press Club, 136; illness and death of mother, 139-40; writes Meat: The End of the Affair, 141; illness of, 141; writes for Enviro South, 141; on board of Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, 141; writes poetry on animals, 142; No Room Save in the Heart, 142; travels to Morocco, Spain, Portugal, Tunisia, Malta, Gibraltar, Alsace and Brittany, 143; theme of betrayal toward animals throughout life, 144, 145, 146; fox hunts, 146-47; rides with mother, 149; first riding accident, 149; blooded at fox hunt, 150
Free, Elissa Blake, 1; attends St. Patrick’s Nursery School, 127; attends Sidwell Friends, 127; works for CBS, 142; works for CNN, 142-43
Free, James Stillman (Jim), 31, 37, 42, 52, 53, 60, 74, 122, 128, 141; sailing trip, 31; works for Washington Evening Star, 32, 53; proposes to ACF, 32; writes on defense issues, 55; marries ACF, 123; works for Birmingham News, 126
Freeman, Dorothy, 138
French Foreign Legion, 92, 94-95
Friend, Howard, 36
Froggy: see Marian West
Furman, Bess, 46
G
Gaines, Miss Edith Pendleton, 19
Gallagher, Miss, 19
Gandhi, Indira, 125
Garfinkels’s, 111, 125
Gasch, Mr., 46
Gasch, Marie Manning, 46
Gayton coal mines, 6, 9
Genissiat: hydroelectric plant at, 119
Geolrile, Dr., 139
George: workman at coal yard, 17, 146
George Polk Memorial Award, 58
George School, 21
Georges-Picot, Nadia, 92
Georgetown (Washington, D.C.): ACF lives in, 42, 55, 57; post office branch, 42
Georgetown Institute of Language and Linguistics, 126
ghats: burning, 97
Gilmer, Henry, 37
Gilmour, Austin, 31; owns sailboat, 31
Ginger (dog), 144
Ginter Park Woman’s Club, 30
Glasgow, Ellen, 150
Glover Archbold Park (Washington, D.C.), 124
Gobi Desert, 86
Godsell, Catherine, 125, 126
Godsell, William, 125, 126
Godsen, Freeman, 16
Golden Egg (restaurant), 113
Graves Registration: Pegge Parker work for, 80
Gray Lamb and Black Falcon (West), 100, 113, 115
Great Britain: and Palestine Mandate, 61, 62
Great Eastern Hotel (Calcutta), 95
Great Wall of China, 89
Greece, 58, 103
Griffin, Josephine, 30
Griffith, Edward, 35
Griffith Stadium (Washington, D.C.), 54
Gythfeldt, Kaare, 75, 76, 78
H
Haight, Hazel, 126
Haight, William, 126
Hallonan, Toivb, 37
Hamilton Arms, 42
Hamilton Arms Restaurant, 42
Handelsbank: Hong Kong branch, 66
Harrison, Ruth, 151
Harsh, Joseph, 122
Haskins, Mari, 12
Hayden, Sterling: ACF meets, 35, 36
Hayes, Evie, 43
Hayes, Jack, 43
Heligon, Simone Bosc, 117-18, 119
Helm, Edith Benham, 50
Henry, Barkley, 125
Herskowitz, Issy, 87
Hickock, Lorena, 45
Higgins, Marguerite, 64
Higgins, Marianna, 19
Highball (pony), 147
“Highwayman” (Noyes), 23
Hill, James, 11
Hill, Lister, 133: and laboratory animals, 133, 134
Hill, Russell, 58
Hindus, Maurice, 30
Hines Funeral Home, 42
Hiss, Alger, 58, 122; trial of, 115
Hitler, Adolph, 38, 39, 63; bunker of, 104, 105
Ho Chi Minh, 74, 92, 124
Hollywood, 34, 37
Holman, Frank, 59, 60
holocaust, 61, 63, 104, 126
Holy Trinity Church: ACF attends, 34
Hong Kong, 66, 68, 90, 91
Hormel Corp.: use of carbon dioxide chamber for slaughter, 129
Hornaday, Mary, 59
horse shows, 148
House of Wu: and famine in China, 77
Howitzer Armory, Richmond, Virginia: horseshows at, 148
Hsai, Louis, 91
Hull, Cordell, 53
Humane Slaughter bill, 30, 129, 131, 132, 155; and captive bolt pistol, 129; and carbon dioxide chamber, 129; and electrical stunning, 129; Congressional hearings, 130; and impact of press conference, 131
humane societies, 153
Humane Society of the United States, 72, 135, 142; mother belongs to, 129
Humphrey, Hubert: and Human Slaughter Bill, 130, 131, 155
Hunan Province: famine in, 75
Hungjao (Shanghai suburb), 72
hunter trials, 148
Hunter, Williams, Allison, Gaye and Moore (law firm), 147
“Hunting from the Fox’s Point of View” (Free), 147
Hurley, Mrs. Patrick, 54
Huse, Robert, 116
Hyde Park: Roosevelt papers at, 45, 46
Hygeia Hospital, 10
I
India: and partition, 96-97
Indochina, 91
International News Service, 47
International Refugee Organization, 99
International Society for Animal Rights, 156, 157
Irawaddy River, 96
Israel, 61, 103, 104
Italy, 103
J
Jabotinsky, Ari, 61
Jackson, Thomas (Stonewall): statue of in Richmond, 88
James, Claude, 55, 60, 61, 62, 91
James, Edmund Leland, 55
James, Michel, 55
James, Monique, 55
James, Simone, 55
James Joyce Society, 111
Japan, 38, 53; Barnard students boycott, 38; embassy of, 54; and occupation of China, 85
Jardine Matheson, 66-67, 72, 73
Jewish Liberation Front, 61
Jim Crow laws, 51
John Marshall High School, 18, 19, 31
John Widdicombe Company, 33
Johnson, Margaret, 28, 29, 30, 33
Jolas, Eugene, 112
Jones, Colman, 57
Jones, Helen, 131, 132, 156; founder of International Society for Animal Rights, 156; founder of
National Catholic Animal Welfare Society, 156; on Humane Slaughter Bill, 157
Joyce, Mrs., 125
Joyce, James, 109, 111; son, 109
junks (boats), 70
K
Kaleo, Dr.: and animal euthanasia, 152
Kaltenborn, H.V., 39
kamiss (fermented mares milk), 87
Kashmir, 97
Kaster, Maxine, 55, 61
Katie (dog), 144
Kempton, Ann Landon, 25, 26; suicide of, 25
Kempton, Joseph, 25, 26
Kempton, William Allen, 26
Keswick, Anthony, 73
Keswick, Clare, Lady, 66, 72, 73, 91
Keswick, John, Lord, 66, 73, 74, 91
Keswick, Maggie, 74
King David Hotel (Jerusalem), 103
Kmny, Nong: Cambodian ambassador to U.S., 124
Knebel, Fletcher, 126
Kook, Hillel: see Bergson, Peter
kosher laws: and Humane Slaughter bill, 131, 155
Kouras, Cosmo de, 97
Kra Isthmus, 96
Krull, Germaine, 95
Kulsar, David, 76
L
laboratory animals, 132, 138, 157; Welfare Act, 134
Larner, Henry, 37
Latimer, Jimmy, 31
Laval, Pierre, 62
Lawrence, William, 63, 123, 124
League of Michigan Home Dailies, 59
League of Women Voters, 138
Lear, Linda, 139
Lee, Robert E.: statue of in Richmond, 88
Lehman, Herbert, 65
Leon, Paul, 109, 110; died in Auschwitz, 109
Leonard, Harry, 39
Leonard, Maggie, 39
Leonard, “Miss Bunny,” 39
Levi, Carlo, 120
Li Li San, 84
Lieberman, Henry, 73, 74
Life magazine, 116
Lincoln Memorial, 51
Lindeman, Edith, 34-35
Lindley, Betty, 40
Lindley, Ernest, 40, 41
Literary Quarterly (Barnard publication), 28
Little, Herbert, 45
lobbyists: and laboratory animals, 134
Loehr, Alis, 21
Loewenthal, Ariadne Lucanov, 126; develops machine translations, 126; injured, 127
Loewenthal, Rudolph, 80, 126, 127; interest in Chinese Jews, 80; escaped to China before holocaust, 126
Look Homeward Angel (Wolfe), 29
Louisa County (Va.) Historical Society Magazine: ACF writes article for, 9
Luther (horse), 148
Lydda, (Israel), 103
M
Macao, 91
machine translations: see Ariadne Lucanov Loewenthal
MacKay, Eric Alexander Reinhart, Baron, 66, 67, 68, 91
MacMurray, Fred: ACF meets, 35, 36
Mallory, Miss, 19
Malraux, Andre, 93
Mammy: see Walker, Adelaide
Manchuria, 80, 85, 105; Hulatao, 82; Mukden, 82; and German refugees, 83; Harbin, 84; communist Chinese in, 84
Mann, Helen, 18
Manville, Tommy, 37
Mao Tse-tung, 73-74, 84, 85; and cultural revolution, 78
March, Frederic, 35
Marchant, John, 42
Marshall, George C., 84; in China, 73, 85; and Marshall Plan, 113
Marshall Field and Company, 52
Marshall Plan, 116-22; headquarters, 117; counterpart funds, 118
Martin, Jackie, 53
Martin, Lee, 80, 81, 82, 84
Martin, Robert (“Pepper”), 80
Mary, Queen of Scots: portrait, 16
Masaryk, Jan, 115
Massey, David, 60
Matier, Mildred, 24
Maury, Mathew Fontaine, 87, 89
May Day: ACF witnesses communist celebration of, 121
Mayflower Hotel (Washington, D.C.), 56
McAllister, Gerald, 43, 44, 69, 70, 71, 75, 79; encourages ACF to go to China, 64
McAllister, Jane, 43
McArdle, Lee, 119, 122
McCain, Admiral John, 57
McCain, Senator John, 57
McCarthy, Colman, 31
McClendon, Sarah, 131
McCormick, Col. Robert, 46, 53
McCoy, Prof. Jesse, 28
McDougal, Maude, 47
McGonnigle, George, 40, 42
McGrath, Hugo, 41
McKiernan, Douglas, 93
McKiernan, Pegge Parker, 80, 81, 84, 93; works for Graves Registration, 80
McKinley, William, 47
McNamara, Fred, 36
Mekong River, 95
Mellon, Andrew: donates collection for National Gallery of Art, 42-43
Meyer, Eugene, 49
Michael (dog), 126
Michaels, Anna, 63
Michaels, Eva, 63
Michaels, Margaret Walters (Aunt Maggie), 10
Michaels, Percy, 63
Michaels, Sue, 63
Miller, Dr., 49
Miller, Hope Ridings 49, 60
Millican, Dr. Edith, 78
Modern Maturity (magazine): ACF writes article on Eleanor Roosevelt for, 44
Mollenhoff, Clark, 126
Mongolia, 82
Mongolian wild horse: ACF writes Forever the Wild Mare, 128, 136
Monroe Room (White House), 49; Eleanor Roosevelt press conference in, 44
Monte Casino (Italy), 119
Montenegrins: in Sinai refugee camps, 99
Montgomery, Ruth, 60
Montgomery County Humane Society: management of, 140
Moore, Mrs. 13
Moore, Alvin, 13, 14
Moore, Lee, 13, 14
Mordecai family, 19
Morris, Jack, 31; death of, 31
Motherel, Cornelia Little, 45
Mt. Everest, 97
Munitions Building (Washington, D.C.), 54
Mussolini, Benito, 58
Myers, Fred: and Humane Slaughter Law, 129
N
Nagel, Rita, 121
Nancy (pony), 147
Nanking (China), 73
National Gallery of Art: opening of, 42, 43, 63
National Geographic magazine, 16
National Humane Review: ACF sends article to, 147
National Press Building, 40, 52, 53
National Press Club, 41
National Recovery Act (NRA), 20
National Register for Historic Preservation, 144
National Theater, 51
National Zoo, 59, 136
Nehru, Jawaharal, 125
Nellie (maid), 11
New Jersey: West Orange, 27; Lake Hopatcong, 27; Hoboken, 65
New York Daily News, 46, 56, 59
New York Herald Tribune, 44, 52, 57, 58, 59, 61, 89, 101, 108, 111, 122; Washington Bureau, 31, 56; ACF joins, 56; ACF takes leave of absence from, 64, 65; ACF article on Manchuria, 85; ACF article on Iron Curtain, 103; ACF article on democratizing Germany, 107; ACF writes articles on Germany, 104; London Bureau of, 115; ACF leaves, 116
New York Times, 31, 52, 55, 63, 73, 89, 91, 123; Washington Bureau, 31; and letters on laboratory animals, 133
Newkirk, Ingrid, 140
Newton, Bill, 102
Newsday, 60
Newsweek, 42, 51-52, 53, 55; ACF joins, 27, 37; ACF at Washington Bureau of, 38; ACF first woman at Washington Bureau, 41; ACF memorandum on opening of National Gallery of Art, 43
Nixon, Patricia: ACF meets, 128-29
Nixon, Richard, 122, 128; ACF meets, 128-29
No Room Save in the Heart (Free), 142
“Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” (song), 51
Noel (dog), 60
Noel, Lucie, 108, 109; sends items to husband in Auschwitz, 110; and Paris fashion houses, 112
Nolting, Buford, 31
Nooter, Amanda, 143
Nooter, Bill, 2, 142; marriage to Elissa Free, 142; attends St. John’s College, 143
Nooter, Nancy, 120
Normal School (A.P. Hill School), 12
North American Newspaper Alliance, 49: ACF writes for, 124, 130
Noyes, Alfred, 23
O
Observer, The, 113
O’Donnell, John, 46, 59
Office of Civilian Defense: and Eleanor Roosevelt, 47, 48
Office of Strategic Services, 47; and Indochina, 124
opium trade: in China, 67
Oppenheimer family, 19
Oriental Hotel (Bangkok), 95; run by spy, 95
Orso, Mr., 138
OSS: see Office of Strategic Services
Ottoman Empire, 61, 104
Oudine, John, 26, 36, 39, 90, 91; writes “World Letters” for Time magazine, 27; goes to China, 27; at Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 74
Outer Mongolia, 16
Oxford University, 33, 39
P
Page (horse), 148
Pakistan: and partition, 96-97
Palestine, 61, 62, 103, 104
Pan American Coffee Bureau, 40
Pan Hellenic Association: sponsors literary contest, 28
Panama Canal: ACF transits, 66
Pandit, Mrs. (aunt of Indira Gandhi), 125
Paramount Studios, 35
Park Fairfax Apartments: Nixons live at, 128
Parker, Pegge: see McKiernan, Pegge Parker
Pasley, Virginia, 59, 60
Patches (dog), 144
Patterson, Cissy, 46
Patterson, Col. Joseph, 46
Patton, General George, 62
Patton, Sally, 34
Pearl Harbor, 44; attack on, 53, 54
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, 140
People magazine 36
Pepin: French Nazi, 110
Perez, Fernando, 53
Pershing, General John J., 6
pesticides, 136
Petain, Marshal Henri Philippe, 62
Philippines, 66, 68
Picherella, Jeannette A., 66
Pickens family, 128
Pickwick Arms (hotel), 36, 39
Picture Play (magazine), 36
Piedmont Manor, 36
pigs: and slaughter of, 129
Pittard, Admiral George, 34
Pittypat (pony), 148
Poage, Congressman: and Humane Slaughter bill, 130, 131
pocket veto: and Humane Slaughter Bill, 131, 156
Polk, George, 101-02; death of, 58
Poppy (dog), 144
Powell, Lewis F., Jr. (Supreme Court Justice), 147
Preston, Edmund, 147
Pumphrey, Maade, 22
Pumphrey, Margaret, 22
Purdy, Crawford, 96
Q
Quartermaster Corps (United States Army), 43
Quinn, Sally, 60
R
Rachel Carson Council, 136, 138
Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge, 137
“Rag-O-Toggle-Gypsies, OH!” (song), 23
Rags (puppy), 15
Ramstetter, Emily Crump, 22
Randolph Macon Women’s College, 10
Rangoon (Burma), 95
Rayburn, Sam, 49
Reader’s Digest, 80
Reed, Mr. (American consul in Saigon), 93
refugee camps: German, 104; in Sinai desert, 98, 99, 113
refugees, 61, 99, 100
Reid, Helen Rogers, 56, 65
Reimers, Betsy, 139
Reimers, Marie, 90, 139
Reimers, Paul, 139
Rendell, Richard, 40
Resnick, Congressman: and animal rights, 134, 135
Reuters, 91
Richard, Davis, 40
Richmond, Virginia, 7, 39, 42, 43, 61, 63, 140, 146; birth of ACF, 1; West Grace Street, 1, 2, 11, 12, 14, 20, 90; Park Avenue, 2, 5, 6, 11; Fan District of, 2; Westhampton suburb, 6; old city hall, 6; Monument Avenue, 6, 11, 18, 19; Foch visits, 6; Shepherd’s Tract, 11; Allen Avenue, 11; Kensington Avenue, 12; Broad Street, 12; Scot’s Addition, 12; Patterson Street, 12; riding academy on Cherry Street, 13; fire at stockyards, 17; Floyd Avenue, 18; book on Jewish community in 19; Franklin Street, 29; theater in, 32
Richmond Division of the College of William and Mary, 28
Richmond Film Society, 39
Richmond SPCA, 23; ACF mother assistant director of, 150; Ellen Glasgow president of, 150; euthanasia at, 150, 151, 152
Richmond Times Dispatch, 19, 29, 33, 34, 38, 39, 85; ACF works for, 30; drama and movie critic for, 35; ACF resigns from 36, 37
Richmond Virginia Historic magazine, 33
Richmond Women’s College, 10
Ripley, Josephine, 124
Ripley, Mary, 143
Ripley, Sylvia, 143
Robert E. Lee Grammar School, 11, 12
Romig, Dr.: and animal euthanasia, 152, 153
Rommel, General Irwin, 62
Rooks, Lowell: director general of UNRRA, 78-79
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 40, 45, 50, 56, 57, 64; ACF covers, 42, 44; press conference of, 44, 47, 49; Assistant Head of Office of Civilian Defense, 47, 48; letter from ACF re: India and China, 97
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 45, 53, 64, 69; radio address, 20; and declaration of war, 53-54; ACF sees at Christmas service, 62
Roscoe, Mei Lin, 71
Rothstein, Arthur, 75, 76, 78; Dust Bowl photographs, 75
Royal SPCA (Great Britain), 151
Russell, Ned, 115
Russia, 61; and German refugees, 83; prisoners of war in, 83
Ryan, Autumn, 80, 81
Ryan, Leo, 80-81
S
S.H. Cottrell and Son, Coal Merchants, 7; use horses, 17; workmen at, 17
Sachs, Lois, 27, 38, 51
Sadler, Christine, 48
Saigon (Vietnam), 91, 93
Salam, Nina: character in Gray Lamb and Black Falcon, 100, 113, 114
Sale, Mr.: and animal euthanasia, 151
Salmon, Mildred, 66
Salonika (Greece), 102-3; death of George Polk, 58
sampans, 70
Sanctified Sisters Church: ACF writes article on, 33
Sands, Jack, 147
Schweitzer, Albert, 46, 80, 106, 136; and Lamborene Hospital, 141; impact on ACF, 141;
Pphilosophy of, 142
SScott, George Cole, 147
Scripps Howard, 44
Sea Around Us, The (Carson), 135
Seal Brothers, 96
Seimans Corp., 106
Selzer, Alice, 5
Serbs: in Sinai refugee camps, 99
Shackelford, Miss, 12
Shanghai (China), 56, 67, 70, 71, 72, 86, 89, 90; the Bund, 69; foreign concessions, 69; Cathy Mansions, 69; Circle Sportif, 69
Shanghai Post and Mercury, 71
sheep: slaughter of, 129
Shepard Pratt Hospital, 25
Shepherd, Lee, 34
Short, Joseph, 54
Silent Spring (Carson), 135, 138
Sinai desert, 98; refugee camp in, 98, 99, 100-101
Sinkiang (China), 93
Sistine Chapel, 120
Skewes, Jan, 93
slaughter houses, 153
Small, Bob, 21, 22
Smith, C.R., 55
Smith, John Chabot, 57, 58
Smith, Rex, 37, 40, 53, 55
Snead, Miss, 12
Soochow Creek; sampans on, 70, 71
Spanish Civil War, 30, 38
Spanish Influenza pandemic, 10, 11
Spence, Miss, 37
Spring Valley (Washington, D.C.), 125
St. John’s Church, Washington, D.C.: ACF married at, 123
Standard, Dr.: and animal euthanasia, 152
Steele, Art, 85
Stein, Gertrude, 112
Stephenson, Malvina: 48, 49, 59, 60
Stevens, Christine: and Humane Slaughter bill, 129, 130, 135, 156
Stocker, Dr. Arthur, 1
Stocker, Marian West, 1, 4, 22, 23, 36
Strand Hotel (London), 113
Straus, Frank, 20
Strayer, Martha, 44, 45, 50; and theater roof collapse, 44-45
Stuart, James E.B.: statue of in Richmond, 88
Stuttgart (Germany), 83, 105
Suez Canal, 105; ACF; difficulties at, 98, 99
Sun Yat-sen, 81
Swift Corporation, 130
Switzerland, 111
Sycle, Dorothy, 19
T
Taksang (ship), 67
Talley, Rhea, 30, 31, 33; writes “Talley- Ho” column in Richmond Times Dispatch, 31
Tamara, Sonya, 64
Tavel, Emily, 59
Tcha-tze: dumplings, 68
Teak Wallah (Campbell), 96
Teanhe bowl, 87
teletype: ACF learns to use, 41
Tewfik (Egypt), 99
Thailand, 95
This Week, 137
Thomas, Helen, 131
Thompson, Malvina, 49
Thraves, Mercy, 88
Thraves, Patricia, 88, 89
Thuroczy, Maria, 127
Tibet, 97
Time magazine, 27, 43; “World Letters” column, 27
Times, The, 96, 113
Timmons, Bascom, 52, 53, 60
Tina (dog), 60
tobacco stems, 65
Todd, Larry, 79
Topping, Audrey, 89
Topping, Seymour, 89
Trans-Siberian Railroad, 89
Trieste, 121
Tsingtao (China), 90
Tuckahoe [Women’s] Club, 30
Tucker, Lem, 142
Tucker, Dr. William Randolph, 25
Tufty, Esther Van Wagoner (“Duchess”), 59
Tulsa World, 49
Turkey, 103
Twin Oaks (West estate), 114
Twitty, Tom, 57
U
U.P.: see United Press International
Uhl, Gladys, 111
United Daughters of the Confederacy, 30
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 44, 64, 69, 74, 75, 83, 90, 99; ACF joins, 65; Washington office of, 70; offices at Embankment Building, 70; program, 71; and Chinese governmental corruption, 78; attempt to rebuilt Yellow River levees, 79; supplies in Manchuria, 80; in Changchun, 82; in Harbin, 84
United Press International, 131; and Humane Slaughter Bill, 132, 156
United States Information Service, 93
University of Maryland, 59
University of Virginia, 1, 33, 39
UNRRA: see United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
V
Van Wagoner, Governor, 59
VCU, 28; ACF editor of yearbook, 28
Venus (horse), 148
veterinarians: and animal rights, 135
Vichy France, 62
Vienna (Austria), 121
Vietnam, 124
Virginia: Edinburg, 1; Shenandoah County, 1, 61, 144; Fluvanna County, 7; Louisa, 8, 14; Millboro Springs, 21; Bath County, 21; Annandale, 21; Orkney Springs, 21; Burnsville, 21, 22; Clifton Forge, 24; Goshen Pass, 24; Lexington, 24 Asheville, 29; Charlottesville, 35, 36, 37; Petersburg, 43; Fairfax, County, 46; Shenandoah County, 50; Clark County, 50; Norfolk, 65; Williamsburg, 71; see also Richmond
“Virginia” (movie), 35
Virginia Communist party, 39
Virginia Historical Society, 34
Virginia Library, 33
Vuckovic, Dr. 114; and Maria Banicevic, 100, 114
W
Wacherle, Thea, 98
WACS, 56
Wagonlit Hotel, 86
Walker, Adelaide (Adeline) (Mammy of ACF), 1, 2, 3, 15-16, 51, 146
Walker, Aldous, 56
Walters, James Augustus (great-grandfather of ACF), 9
Walters, Susanna Snow Booth (great-grandmother of ACF), 9, 17; portrait of, 16
Wangpo River, 69
Wardman Park Hotel (Washington, D.C.), 124
Washington, D.C., 122; dog pound: ACF writes about, 152
Washington Animal Rescue League, 153; conditions at, 151
Washington Daily News, 44
Washington Monument, 125
Washington Post, 43, 48, 49; Women’s Department, 49
Washington Star, 53, 124; Jim Free works for, 32; ACF writes for, 124, 130; and elephant at National Zoo, 124; and letters on laboratory animals, 133
Washington Times-Herald, The, 46
Washingtonian magazine: ACF writes on Washington D.C. dog pound, 152
water buffalo, 77
Watson, Fontaine Maury Thraves, 87, 88, 89
Watson, Tom, 87; suicide of, 88
WAVES, 56
Weckerle, Thea, 83, 106: and German Red Coss pin, 83; ACF meets again in Germany, 105; works for Seimans, 106; ACF transports currency for, 107, 108
Wells, Cappie, 71; and currency speculation, 72
West, Annie, 23
West, Anthonoy, 114
West, Aunt Mamie (Mary), 7, 8
West, Mosby, 8
West, Mosby, 8
West, Mary, 23
West, Nannie, 22, 23, 24
West, Rebecca, 100, 113, 114
West, Dr. William Johnson (uncle of ACF), 1, 4, 5, 23, 36
Wheaton, Anne, 156; White House press secretary, 132
Wheaton, Warren, 54
Who Says We Can’t Cook (Women’s National Press Club), 68
Widdicombe, John, 33, 34, 39
Wilhelm, Jane Gilmer, 37, 53
Willard Hotel (Washington, D.C.), 56
William Fox School, 11
Williams, Tennessee, 120
Wilson, Edmund: writings and philosophy of, 154
Wilson, Mrs. Woodrow, 50
Windmill (horse), 13,146,149; put down, 148
Windrock (mare), 149
Wolfe, Thomas, 28, 29
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 30
Woman’s Club, 26, 30
Women’s Bureau, 50
Women’s National Press Club, 138; cookbook, 68; Rachel Carson invited to speak, 136
Women’s News Service: ACF writes for, 130
Wood, Grant, 50
Woodrow, Captain: aboard Empire Joy, 65
Woodson, Juliet, 19
Woolf, Virginia, 43, 77
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 20, 39; Writer’s Project, 33
World War I, 6, 10, 11, 55, 125
World War II, 100
WPA: see Works Progress Administration
Wright, Dorothea, 41
Y
Yangtze Gorge, 89
Yellow River (“China’s sorrow”), 79, 80; Japanese dynamite levees, 79
Yellow Sea, 81
Yien, Mr.: teaches ACF Chinese, 69
YMCA: in China, 80
You Can’t Go Home Again (Wolfe), 29
Young People’s Service League, 34
Young’s Art Gallery, 29
Z
Zionists, 61, 62; and British Mandate in Palestine, 104
