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...worth of friends and lovers: an amazing melange of artists and writers, aristocrats, suffragettes, and lesbians. It becomes impossible to keep track of all of them, a veritable "regiment of women" with an array of delightful 1920s names that could come straight out of P.G. Wodehouse: Toupie, Winaretta, Honey, Budge...and an apparently endless succession of Violets. But Hall's wide network of personal and professional acquaintances also included many of the period's most famous feminists, suffragettes, and publicly visible lesbians-- such as the novelist May Sinclair, the composer Dame Ethel Smythe, and the Paris-based painter Romaine Brooks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radclyffe Hall: More than a Martyr | 3/13/1998 | See Source »

...phone rings as she walks through the door. "I knew he would call," she sighs, rushing to pick it up. It's midnight and she's returning from having a drink with a friend after a study session. "Honey, is that you? Where have you been?" whines her mother. "I've been calling for about two hours now... I couldn't go to sleep until I knew you were home safely...

Author: By Shara R. Kay, | Title: Family Ties: When They Just Won't Let Go | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

Storm in a Honey Pot Or how Pooh and his friends became the focus of a Very Big Controversy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 2/6/1998 | See Source »

...York, any day he likes." The Mayor didn't like this and thought it would be a Good Idea to have his picture taken with the bear. And the press licked their lips at the thought of a story that would run and run like a pot of honey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tale of Pooh | 2/5/1998 | See Source »

...after a series of strokes; in Jackson, Tenn. Blue Suede Shoes, his anthem to teenage vanity nearly became his requiem when, as he was en route to a key national-TV performance in 1956, a car crash hobbled him and his career. Drinking binges followed, but so did songs--Honey Don't, Matchbox--that helped teach the Beatles rock 'n' roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 2, 1998 | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

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