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Authors: Jonathan Eig
CHAPTER SIX
| 58 | at least one unwanted pregnancy : Brett Harvey, The Fifties: A Women’s Oral History (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), p. 92. |
| 59 | “modern as tomorrow” : Betty Millburn, “A Witty Friend and a Gracious Hostess,” Tucson Citizen , Arizona Daily Star archives, undated. |
| 59 | hobnobbed with the social elite : Margaret Regan, “Margaret Sanger: Tucson’s Irish Rebel,” Tucson Weekly , March 11, 2004, http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/margaret-sanger-tucsons-irish-rebel/Content?oid=1075512 (accessed February 20, 2014). |
| 59 | some of the money : Madeline Gray, Margaret Sanger: A Biography of the Champion of Birth Control (New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1979), p. 292. |
| 59 | Prescott S. Bush : “Bush Family Planning,” Margaret Sanger Papers Project newsletter, Winter 2006/2007, no. 44, New York University, http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/newsletter/articles/bush_family_planning.htm (accessed February 20, 2014). |
| 60 | in Sanger’s words : Katharine Dexter McCormick to Margaret Sanger, October 27, 1950, Margaret Sanger Papers, SSC. |
| 60 | “Confidential Please” : Margaret Sanger to Clarence Gamble, dated “Saturday/October 1942,” Gamble Papers, CLM. |
CHAPTER SEVEN
| 62 | “Our one duty” : Pincus diaries, September 19, 1920, Gregory Pincus Papers, LOC. |
| 62 | “Greatness is a spiritual condition” : Pincus diaries, undated entry, Gregory Pincus Papers, LOC. |
| 64 | “He was so handsome” : Leon Speroff, M.D., A Good Man: Gregory Goodwin Pincus (Portland, OR: Arnica Publishing, 2009), p. 48. |
| 64 | “How many nights I cried” : Ibid. |
| 65 | Rabbi Stephen Wise’s Free Synagogue : Alex Pincus, unpublished memoir, Gregory Pincus Papers, LOC. |
| 65 | “took him into bed” : Ibid. |
| 65 | “for the same joy in the future” : Pincus diaries, January 20, 1920, Gregory Pincus Papers, LOC. |
| 65 | “the embodiment of all our ideals” : Pincus diaries, March 7, 1920, Gregory Pincus Papers, LOC. |
| 65 | “I have not heretofore strictly practiced” : Pincus diaries, January 27, 1920, Gregory Pincus Papers, LOC. |
| 65 | “the holiest passion on this earth” : Pincus diaries, January 8, 1920, Gregory Pincus Papers, LOC. |
| 65 | “affectionate being” : Pincus diaries, March 21, 1920, Gregory Pincus Papers, LOC. |
| 66 | “Values and standards which have been” : Gregory Pincus to his mother, undated letter, Gregory Pincus Papers, LOC. |
| 67 | washing dishes and waiting tables : Pincus diaries, March 21, 1920, Gregory Pincus Papers, LOC. |
| 67 | his family during vacations : Ibid. |
| 67 | she wrote in a memoir : Elizabeth Pincus, unpublished memoir, family collection. |
| 68 | “clear conscience and a big heart” : Gregory Pincus to his mother, undated letter, Gregory Pincus Papers, LOC. |
| 68 | Philip Morris cigarettes : Speroff, A Good Man , p. 125. |
| 68 | “Growing a penis” : Geoff Dutton, interview conducted by the author, October 2011. |
| 68 | “I’m a sexologist” : Speroff, A Good Man , p. 74. |
| 69 | “epicenter of American education” : Richard Norton Smith, The Harvard Century (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998), p. 12. |
| 70 | What form of birth control . . . no one knows : Laura Pincus Bernard, interview conducted by the author, October 2011. |
| 70 | “I wanted to take life in my hands” : Philip J. Pauly, Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), p. 102. |
| 71 | “a very good probability of failure” : Gregory Pincus, unpublished manuscript, Gregory Pincus Papers, LOC. |
| 72 | “an arrogant bunch of brats ”: Hudson Hoagland, “Change, Chance and Challenge,” unpublished memoir, UM. |
| 72 | influential psychologists and behaviorists : Pauly, Controlling Life , p. 191. |
| 72 | Pincus’s contract was only barely approved : Ibid. |
| 73 | apply his in vitro technique to humans : Ibid. |
| 73 | “At Harvard are two Bokanovskys” : “The Week in Science,” New York Times , May 13, 1934. |
| 74 | “the tinkering of a biological Edison” : Pauly, Controlling Life , p. 192. |
| 74 | “bound to receive his meed of the praise” : “B OTTLES AS M OTHERS ,” New York Times , April 21, 1935. |
| 75 | “ M ANLESS W ORLD ?” : “Manless World?” Racine Journal-Times , April 15, 1936. |
| 75 | “Pfluger, 1863” : Gregory Pincus, The Eggs of Mammals (New York: Macmillan, 1936), pp. 8–9. |
| 76 | “The social implications of Dr. Pincus’s” : “Brave New World,” New York Times , March 28, 1936. |
| 77 | “In the huge Biological Laboratory” : “No Father to Guide Them,” Collier’s , March 20, 1937. |
| 78 | Hoagland drove to the drug store : Enoch Callaway, Asylum: A Mid- Century Madhouse and Its Lessons about Our Mentally Ill Today (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007), p. 18. |
| 79 | “Knowing his brilliance” : Hudson Hoagland, “Change, Chance and Challenge,” unpublished memoir, UM. |
| 80 | sprawled across the surrounding yard : Laura Pincus Bernard, telephone interview conducted by the author, December 2012. |
| 80 | Hoagland recalled : “Biology Foundation Spawned in a Barn,” Worcester Telegram , June 8, 1952. |
| 80 | “The Clark work was reported” : “Test Tube Ova Demonstrate Tendency of Reproduction,” Jefferson City Post-Tribune , April 28, 1939. |
| 80 | The AP corrected its error : “Test Tube Furore is Result of Omitted ‘Not’,” Ogden Standard-Examiner (Utah), May 19, 1939. |
| 81 | with encouraging preliminary results : G. Pincus and H. Hoagland, “Effects on Industrial Production of the Administration of Pregnenolone to Factory Workers, I,” Psychosomatic Medicine 7, no. 6 (1945), pp. 342–46. |
| 81 | opening session of the conference : Transcript of Joseph Gildzieher interview conducted by Leon Speroff, October 2007. |
| 81 | the principal of John’s high school : Laura Pincus Bernard, interview conducted by the author, October 2011. |
| 81 | room, board, and clothing : Ibid. |
| 82 | what an ordeal her home life had become : Ibid. |
| 83 | began emitting its contents into the groundwater : “The Growth and Future of the Worcester Foundation: A Report to the Trustees,” 1950, UM. |
| 83 | how to pay : Ibid. |
| 83 | a portable table, and a keg of nails for a chair : Transcript of Jackie Foss interview conducted by Leon Speroff, May 2007. |
| 83 | “growth was either wise or necessary” : “The Growth and Future of the Worcester Foundation: A Report to the Trustees,” 1950, UM. |
| 84 | always surrounded by towers of books : Michael Moschos, telephone interview conducted by the author, June 2013. |
| 84 | “It’s like living in a madhouse” : Alex Pincus, unpublished memoir, Gregory Pincus Papers, LOC. |
| 85 | “The Serious Stinkers” : Laura Pincus Bernard, interview conducted by the author, July 2013. |
| 86 | $30,000 : Speroff, A Good Man , p. 117. |
| 86 | paid for with Worcester Foundation money : Laura Pincus Bernard, interview conducted by the author, July 2013. |
| 86 | J&B or Johnny Walker : Geoff Dutton, interview conducted by the author, October 2011. |
| 86 | Philip Morris cigarette dangling : Isabelle Chang, interview conducted by the author, July 2013. |
| 86 | “You give her a test-tickle” : Geoff Dutton, interview conducted by the author, October 2011. |
| 86 | “she had this sort of demeanor” : Transcript of Michael Bedford interview conducted by Leon Speroff, undated. |
| 86 | until Lizzie relented : Laura Pincus Bernard, interview conducted by the author, July 2013. |
| 87 | “an important factor in Goody’s life history” : Alex Pincus, unpublished memoir, Gregory Pincus Papers, LOC. |
| 87 | refused to get behind the wheel : Laura Pincus Bernard, interview conducted by the author, July 2013. |
| 87 | Mrs. Pincus could be so disagreeable : Transcript of Jackie Foss interview conducted by Leon Speroff, May 2007. |
| 87 | as soon as she woke : David Halberstam, The Fifties (New York: Villard, 1993), p. 289. |
| 88 | remembered her father sleeping : Ibid. |
| 88 | “a man who . . . was indestructible” : Oscar Hechter, “Homage to Gregory Pincus,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 11 (Spring 1968), p. 367. |
| 88 | “Nobody dared tell him a lie” : Isabelle Chang, interview conducted by the author, July 2013. |
| 89 | Sheldon Segal : Sheldon Segal, “Gregory Pincus, Father of the Pill,” Population Reference Bureau, http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/289/GregoryPincusFatherofthePill.aspx (accessed February 18, 2014). |
| 89 | “When you went to the Laurentian” : Ibid. |
| 89 | “like an emperor” : Ibid. |
CHAPTER EIGHT
| 90 | “Mrs. Stanley” : Katharine Dexter McCormick to Margaret Sanger, October 27, 1950, Margaret Sanger Papers, SSC. |
| 93 | masturbated publicly : Armond Fields, Katharine Dexter McCormick: Pioneer for Women’s Rights (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003), p. 150. |
| 94 | plotting their attack : Ibid., p. 177. |
| 95 | including three large trunks : Ibid., p. 181. |
| 95 | which was putting it mildly : Ibid., p. 213. |
| 96 | cost another $108,000 a year : Obituary, Santa Barbara News-Press , January 20, 1947. |
| 96 | “executrix of the estate” : Fields, Katharine Dexter McCormick , p. 252. |
| 96 | almost thirty-two thousand shares : Ibid. |
| 96 | her husband having died in 1943 : Ellen Chesler, Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007), p. 399. |
| 97 | long ago been transferred to her name : Ibid. |
CHAPTER NINE
| 98 | “feeling pretty desperate” : Katharine Dexter McCormick to Margaret Sanger, January 22, 1952, Armond Fields Collection, USC. |
| 99 | try more progesterone compounds : “Report of Progress to: Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.,” January, 24, 1952, LOC. |
| 99 | “to those who may help support it” : William Vogt to Gregory Pincus, April 21, 1952, LOC. |
| 99 | “evidently not been sold” : James Reed, From Private Vice to Public Virtue: The Birth Control Movement and American Society Since 1830 (New York: Basic Books, 1978), p. 341. |
| 99 | on other business : Katharine Dexter McCormick to Margaret Sanger, June 20, 1952, Margaret Sanger Papers, SSC. |
| 100 | “As scientists and individuals” : “General Summary and Results,” Arden House Colloquium on Human Fertility, September 13–14, 1952, Gregory Pincus Papers, LOC. |
| 100 | “I am rather surprised” : Katharine Dexter McCormick to Margaret Sanger, October 1, 1952, Armond Fields Collection, USC. |
| 101 | “It is pretty trying” : Katharine Dexter McCormick to Margaret Sanger, March 15, 1953, Armond Fields Collection, USC. |
| 101 | “we can go see Dr. Pincus” : Margaret Sanger to Katharine Dexter McCormick, March 27, 1953, Armond Fields Collection, USC. |