1. Marian Probst talked at length about the Harmony event with the author during an inteview on March 12, 2004, in New York City. Amory also wrote about it in his book, Man Kind? Our incredible War on Wildlife (New York: Harper & Row, 1974), 3–14.
2. Amory mentioned his experiences with the Windsors many times over the years in lectures and wrote about it at length in the book The Best Cat Ever (New York: Little, Brown and Co., 1993), 115–44. The first two books in the trilogy, both published by Little, Brown, were The Cat Who Came for Christmas (1988) and The Cat and the Curmudgeon (1990).
3. Minow made this comment about television in a May 8, 1963, speech. It is quoted in David Bianculli, Teleliteracy: Taking TV Seriously (New York: Continuum Publishing, 1992), 72.