Rita HAYWORTH in Gilda

Frank MONEYPENNY who snuck me into the PX

Ernest HEMINGWAY with The Sun Also Rises

And: the American Joint Committee, the Nash Ambassador ‘48 my father bought in 1951, Burt Lancaster & Gary Cooper & Vera Cruz, the insides of a golf ball from Nouasseur, hamburgers & relish & Coca Cola on the beach, Kid Oklahoma & Lieutenant De Soto, Rockfeller the millionaire, Ferguson tractors, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, The Reader’s Digest, Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis the movies, T shirts & grey sweatshirts & blue jeans, Sal Mineo & the death of Jimmy Dean, the NCO Club at Couvron Air Base, Shock Corridor, Superman, Count Basie, a Philco refrigerator, The Platters Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Vicky & Eve & Diana & Headlights, Paul Newman & Elisabeth Taylor & Tennessee Williams, Charlie Brown & mostly Snoopy, 3:10 to Yuma, Carter Brown & Al Wheeler & Ross Macdonald & Lew Archer, Peggy Lee singing Fever, off-white button-down collar Arrow shirts of ‘58, John Garfield & Lana Turner The Postman Always Rings Twice, a Remington qwerty typewriter, Ruggles of Red Gap, The Everly Brothers & The Diamonds singing Little Darling, hot-dogs in the back of a Studebaker ’57 convertible, Ella & Louis the two records, Samuel Fuller & Richard Widmark Pick-up on South Street, Elvis Presley singing All Shook Up, Marilyn Monroe & Robert Mitchum The River of No Return, a baseball glove, Woody Strode & Lee Marvin, Pall-Malls and Winstons & King Edwards, Lenny Bruce & Tom Lehrer & Jack Benny & Woody Allen, pancakes & maple syrup, the creek at Uncle George’s, Louisville & New York & Harlem the summer of ’64, Penny the summer of ‘64, Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston & Leadbelly & Pete Seeger & Bob Dylan revisiting, Playboy Magazine, Arthur Miller Focus, Gene Kelly & Cyd Charisse & Dolores Gray singing Thanks But No Thanks, bowling shoes in Keighley, Marlon Brando On The Waterfront, New Paltz & Blackhawk Trail, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour & All in the Family, Mahalia Jackson & Ray Charles & Lady Day & Thelonius Monk & Miles Davis & John Coltrane & Charlie Mingus, a mailbox, Edward Allbee & Arthur Kopit & Murray Shisgal, an Oldsmobile Cutlass ’68 & Route 66, latkes & kneidler, Dustin Hoffman & Simon & Garfunkel, the LL Bean Catalogue, CCNY & 8^th. Street & Wesbeth, Saul Bellow & Bernard Malamud & Edward Lewis Wallant & Norman Mailer & Grace Paley & Philip Roth &