1. Bernice Kert, The Hemingway Women: Those Who Loved Him - the Wives and Others.

2. author of "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man".

3. "Men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses," is Parkers most well known line. Her film credits include "A Star is Born".

4. Feldman produced "Street Car Named Desire", "The Glass Menagerie", "The Seven Year Itch", and earlier "The Best Years of Our Lives", which in my Video Movie Guide is listed with 5 stars and is, incidentally, the entry just before "Bethune" (which has three and half stars).

5. then titled "For Whom the Horses Run".

6. Mack the Knife, from the Three Penny Opera.

7. my video guide says it is one of Fritz Lang's best movies

8. Frances is sorting through Beth's letters for Ted.

9. Here Frances is commenting on Ted's manuscript.

10. the letter is handwritten, not typed.

11. adapting from a contraption the Chinese used to sling over mules to carry baggage, Bethune designed a portable operating table which doubled for storage and carriage of medical supplies. I believe it is plans for this to which Francis is referring.