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211 “Moments later”: Ibid.
212 “a mutation”: Ibid., March 2, 1979.
213 “To hear him tell”: Ibid., May 4, 1979; and Princeton speech.
214 “the most important”: Sam Berg notes, December 31, 1978.
215 “I assure you”: Sam Berg to Earl Brodie, March 17, 1985.
216 “Estella Huni may”: Others I interviewed who describe Sam’s feelings of jealousy are Yoshihisa Hyashi, William Klein, Ted Sanger, Elizabeth Shames, and William Sharpe.
217 “We were close”: Sam Berg, Princeton speech.
218 “When Dr. Sam ventured”: Sam Berg to Lou Jacobson.
219 “Dr. Sam, in turn”: Berg notebook entry, February 18, 1960.
220 “Berg, who was never”: Interview with William Klein, New York.
221 “Yet, like Dr. Sam”: Sam Berg says 1958 in his notes; Murray Strober, his doctor, says it happened in 1959.
222 “Yet, never once”: Interview with Dr. Murray Strober, Nutley, New Jersey.
223 “He was such a warm”: Interview with Frances Book Kashdan by telephone.
224 “After the war”: Interview with Denise Shames, Portland, Maine.
225 “If anyone asked”: Interview with Joseph Brodsky by telephone.
226 “at Gruning’s”: Interview with Richard Evans by telephone.
227 “owed people money”: Sam Goudsmit to Sam Berg, August 20, 1964; Sam Bergto Emily Hughes, August 21, 1964; Emily Hughes to Sam Berg, August 26, 1964; interview with Ted Sanger, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
228 “Dr. Sam liked to”: See, for example, his Princeton speech.
229 “Dr. Sam had reached”: Sam Berg to Sam Goudsmit, June 17, 1964.
230 “It was only by chance”: Ibid., July 23, 1964.
231 “Please, please, please”: Sam Goudsmit to Berg, October 17, 1949.
232 “He wrote to”: Sam Berg to Ted Lyons, August 7, 1964. Reply is August 14, 1964.
233 “Goudsmit followed up”: New York Herald Tribune, June 27, 1965.
234 “Twenty years ago”: Sam Berg to Sam Goudsmit, undated letter, probably January 1965.
235 “By July 1965”: Sam Berg to Sam Goudsmit, July 4, 1965.
236 “He met a physicist”: Sam Goudsmit to Ethel Berg, May 10, 1973.
237 “he attended the 1965 World Series”: Los Angeles Times, October 3, 1965.
238 “Goudsmit heard about”: William Fowler to Sam Goudsmit, January 6, 1966.
239 “Goudsmit asked one”: Sam Goudsmit to Ethel Berg, April 11, 1973.
240 “By 1967”: Sam Berg to Sam Goudsmit, March 7, 1967.
241 “No later than 1966”: Ethel Berg to Sam Goudsmit, May 11, 1973.
242 “Since 1934, Ethel”: Interview with Elizabeth Shames, Portland, Maine.
243 “social misfit”: Ethel Berg to Sam Goudsmit, June 27, 1976.
244 “Dr. Sam was not”: Ibid.; and Sam Berg notes, July 21, 1989, courtesy of Charles Owen.
245 “When the reunions”: Interviews with Sam Kashdan by telephone; and Elizabeth Shames, Portland, Maine.
246 “Everyone would whisper”: Interviews with Sam Kashdan and Hannah Litzky by telephone; interview with Elizabeth Shames, Portland, Maine, and correspondence with Litzky and Shames.
247 “a superb one”: Interviews with Margaret Jennings Gahan and Hannah Litzky by telephone.
248 “In time, Ethel”: Ethel Berg notes; and Sam Berg notes, July 21, 1989.
249 “Her clothes might be”: Biographical information about Ethel Berg comes mainly from interviews with Craig and Dorothy Miller, Cranford, New Jersey; Frances Chavis by telephone; and Elizabeth Shames, Portland, Maine.
250 “She never quite”: Interview with Elizabeth Shames, Portland, Maine.
251 “a liar”: Sam Berg notes, July 21, 1989.
252 “Ethel’s cousin”: Interview with Frances Book Kashdan by telephone.
253 “all the details”: Interview with Elizabeth Shames, Portland, Maine.
254 “a terrible fear”: Interview with Elizabeth Shames, Portland, Maine.
255 “Elizabeth’s husband, Joe”: Interview with Elizabeth Shames, Portland, Maine.
256 “I rebuilt her carriage house”: Interview with Craig Miller, Cranford, New Jersey.
257 “If you allowed Ethel”: Interview with Elizabeth Shames, Portland, Maine.
258 “When family members”: Interview with Elizabeth Shames, Portland, Maine; interview with Craig and Dorothy Miller, Cranford, New Jersey; and interview with Claire Wagner by telephone.
259 “That stopped the storytelling”: Interview with Elizabeth Shames, Portland, Maine.
260 “After that”: Interview with Craig and Dorothy Miller, Cranford, New Jersey.
261 “in a city that no longer”: Interview with Craig and Dorothy Miller, Cranford, New Jersey; interview with Charles Cummings, Newark.
262 “horse races”: Undated clipping from Berg’s Newark News file at the Newark Public Library.
263 “to purchase the Washington Senators”: Summary of meetings, July 29 and 30, 1971, Berg file.
264 “The writer and editor”: Interview with Ray Robinson by telephone.
265 “In 1967, Berg met”: Information for this section comes from an interview with Sayre Ross, New York.
266 “not very grandfatherly”: Interview with Mary Barcella by telephone.
267 “He said he’d swallowed”: Dr. Murray Strober’s patient history, May 27, 1972. Provided to me by Dr. Strober.
268 “On May 29, 1972”: Death-scene information comes from interviews with Dr. Anthony DelGaizo and Dr. Martin Jassie by telephone; and Dr. Murray Strober, Nutley, New Jersey. See also Sam Berg, “Recollections,” and his notes, March 10, 1979.
269 “Dr. Sam was”: Princeton speech.
270 “When he learned what”: Interview with William Greifinger; and S. Goldhaber to Sam Berg, March 8, 1987.
271 “As for Ethel”: Interviews with Margaret Jennings Gahan and Eugenia O’Connor by telephone.
272 “Mostly she referred”: Interview with Frances Chavis by telephone.
273 “One letter to Kieran”: John Kieran to Asa Bushnell, December 1, 1972; and Ethel Berg to the CIA, May 28, 1975.
274 “Berg’s ashes”: Sam Berg notes, May 14, 1989, and July 21, 1989; Sam Berg to Charles Owen, January 7, 1987; S. Goldhaber to Sam Berg, March 8, 1987; S. Goldhaber to Ethel Berg, May 29, 1977.
Chapter 14. The Secret Life of Moe Berg
1 “Earl, did Colonel Dix”: Interview with Earl Brodie, San Francisco.
2 “After meeting Berg”: Bertha Dix to Berg, January 18, 1957.
3 “Dix’s superiors concluded”: April 30, 1948, CIA memo.
4 “Well, young fellow”: Interview with Earl Brodie, San Francisco.
5 “In the press box”: Interview with Bob Broeg by telephone.
6 “the fleeting moment early in 1929”: Berg notes, June 23, 1966.
7 “His superiors at”: Interview with Charles O’Neill by telephone.
8 “He began it on”: Some of Berg’s most interesting outlines are dated September 7, 1958; September 10, 1959; September 6, 1962; March 12, 1964; June 13, 1966; August 4, 1968; August 18, 1968; March 9, 1970.
9 “Moe Berg is a”: Undated notebook entry.
10 “I was on TV”: Ethel Berg, p. 300.
11 “M. B. embarrassed”: Berg notebook entry, February 18, 1960.
12 “He sent himself”: Ethel Berg, p. 262.
13 “Those who behave”: Ethel Berg, p. 242.
14 “He was always a guy”: Interview with Bobby Doerr by telephone.
15 “Jack Wilson”: Interview with Jack Wilson by telephone.
16 “Berg did make ambiguous”: Undated, anonymous letter from Berg file.
17 “Moe seemed to have no leanings”: Interview with Irene Goudsmit by telephone.
18 “There were rumors”: Interview with Duncan Robertson by telephone.
19 “old-type natural”: Philip Larkin, Collected Poems, p. 170.
20 “He made sense”: Interview with William Morgan, Washington, D.C.
21 “Bernard Berg knew only one”: A copy of the novella manuscript was provided to me by Elizabeth Shames. She also gave me Anne Levy’s translation of it.
22 “chocolate bars”: Interview with Frances Book Kashdan by telephone.
23 “I always thought”: Interview with Elizabeth Shames, Portland, Maine.
24 “a healer”: Interview with Craig and Dorothy Miller, Cranford, New Jersey; and Ethel Berg to Aldo lcardi, January 14, 1985.
25 “unusual method of banking”: Interview with Harry Broley, Washington, D.C.
26 “through the children”: Philip Roth, “The Man in the Middle,” New York Times, October 12, 1992. A letter I received from Lester Rodney was also especially helpful to my understanding of Jewish codes at the time.
27 “Bernard’s hostile feelings”: Interview with William Moskowitz by telephone and correspondence.
28 “Early in Berg’s”: Berg to his father, October 18, 1919.
29 “A few weeks later”: Undated letter, fall 1919, from Berg to his father.
30 “Camp Wah-Kee-Nah”: Berg to his father, July 26, 1921.
31 “Watch for the Chicago”: Berg to his father, October 17, 1921.
32 “I’ve got some”: Berg to his father, undated letter, Berg’s junior year.
33 “After Princeton”: Letters from France, December 2 and 8, 1923.
34 “I passed the bar”: Berkow (Newspaper Enterprise Association), Ann Arbor News, June 18, 1972.
35 “Pa and I detested”: Ibid.
36 “He’s just a sport”: Sam Berg notes, December 28, 1978, and January 2, 1979.
37 “There is nothing new”: Bernard Berg to Berg, undated letter except for “Tuesday.” Ethel Berg, who scribbled notes on it in the margin, guesses that her father wrote it in 1930.
38 “He began a letter”: Bernard Berg to Berg, March 25, 1937.
39 “No matter how much”: Kaufman, p. 111.
40 “on his birthday”: Berg to his father, August 9, 1940.
41 “I never got married”: Sam Berg notes, December 28, 1978.
42 “my R. C. friends”: Interview with William Klein, New York.
43 “He once explained”: Interview with Jonathan Bayliss by telephone and correspondence.
44 “Berg was invited”: Interview with Earl Brodie, San Francisco.
45 “Baron Corvo”: A. J. A. Symons, The Quest for Corvo, p. 28.
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