Authors: Gail Sheehy
Felker, Cora Tyree (mother), 53
Felker Fest, 388â91
Felker-GS relationship: Allen-GS discussion about, 411â12; Angeles and, 168â69; and Asia trip, 280â83; Birdwhistell's “free bird” concept and, 184, 191; California move and, 385, 386â91, 392; and Cambodian adoptions, 283, 284; children and, 185; and Clay as GS's protector, 426; and Clay as love of GS's life, 425, 459; and Clay as mentor for GS, 208, 219, 440, 443; and Clay's advice to GS, 58; Clay's cancer and, 411â12; Clay's cycle of slow death and, 433â35, 442â45; and Clay's pulling out of feeding tube, 440â41; and Clay's ultimatum to GS, 189, 193; Clay's views about, 207â9; and Clay's visits to GS's Lower East Side apartment, 55â58, 66; commitment in, 193, 208, 210; and early days of living together, 120â24; emotions and, 123â24, 170, 183â84, 310; and family/family life, 183â84, 312, 406; fears in, 295â96; and Fox-GS relationship, 272; Graham and, 192â93; and GS as bachelor woman, 200; and GS as caregiver, 426, 433â37, 439â40, 442â43; and GS as center of Clay's life, 409; GS moves back in with, 256; and GS in perimenopause/menopause, 360â62; and GS at Washington party, 189â91; GS's Algonquin lunch with, 50â54; and GS's daring, 459; and GS's drinking problem, 430â31; and GS's first professional exposure to Clay, 13â15; and GS's first time in Clay's apartment, 116â17; GS's fortieth birthday party and, 233; GS's memories of, 443; GS's play about, 451; and GS's smoking, 129; GS's views about, 182â93; and GS's wardrobe, 225; Hamptons and, 150, 182â83, 187â88, 221, 231â32; happiness of, 316, 381â82; interdependence of, 397; and Italian trip, 228; London trip and, 310â12; Los Angeles trip and, 250; magnetism between, 207, 294; and marriage of Clay and GS, 311â15, 459; Maura and, 118, 121, 122â23, 168, 204, 221, 228, 256, 303, 310, 312, 315; and Maura-GS relationship, 292; and “midlife crisis,” 215; Mohm and, 293, 294â96, 299, 303, 310, 312, 315; Newhouse (Nancy) and, 187â88, 189, 192; as powerful, 374; problems in, 187â91, 296; and professional activities, 116, 119â20, 121; push-pull attraction between, 118â19; role of marriage in, 183â86, 296, 311; romantic obsession in, 119; and Saint Martin's vacation, 266â68; separation in, 193, 210, 293, 296; sexual relationship between, 117, 120, 267; “sleepovers” and, 118â20; social activities and, 121â22, 125â29; Tiffin letter about, 207.
See also specific topic or event
Felker Magazine Center (University of California, Berkeley), 388â91
The Feminine Mystique
(Friedan), 133â34
feminism.
See
women's movement;
specific person or organization
Ferraro, Geraldine, 330â33, 334
Fifth Avenue (New York City), women's march up, 134â35
financial affairs: and Brown's offer to GS, 79; of Clay, 238, 241â42; Clay's medical costs and, 421â24; Gould lawsuit and, 220; and GS-Albert's divorce, 49, 185; and GS as bestselling author, 230; and GS as freelance writer, 203â4; of Henion family, 27, 44, 230; Maura's education and, 203;
Passages
and, 210, 219, 230, 231â32, 273, 422, 426;
Pathfinders
and, 273; and sale of Hamptons house, 421â25, 426, 427â28;
The Silent Passage
and, 369, 370â71; stock market rise and, 414
Finkelstein, Jerry, 99
Fire Island co-ed houses, GS story about, 14â15
Fleur, Richard, 74â75
Flom, Joe, 100, 254
Flowers, Gennifer, 393â94
Flypaper People, GS story about, 14â15
Food and Drug Administration, U.S. (FDA), 364
Ford, Buffy, 62
Ford, Gerald, 93
Fordham University, Trish as Ph.D. graduate of, 115
Fortune
magazine, impact of
New York
magazine on, 102
Four Seasons (New York City restaurant), 13â14, 55, 100, 205, 221
Fox, Joe, 271â72
“The Fractured Family” (Sheehy), 138
France: Clay-GS trip to, 412â13, 414; and GS writings about French behavior on beaches, 228.
See also
Paris, France
Franklin National Bank, collapse of, 93â94
Freedom Riders, 5
Freud, Sigmund, 210â11
Friedan, Betty, 131, 133â34, 135, 336
Friends Seminary, 303
Friends Service Committee, 303
Frost, David, 173, 177, 178â79, 180,
181
, 200, 314, 342, 453
Gainsborough Studios, 271â72
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 243
gay culture, 95
Gekko, Gordon, 335
Getty, J. Paul, 154
Gilbert, Ruth, 101
Gingrich, Arnold, 54
Ginna, Margaret, 223, 231, 455
Ginna, Robert Emmett, 223, 339, 449, 454â58
girl with hungry eyes.
See
Mohm
Glaser, Milton, 80â83, 90, 92, 93, 102, 110, 224, 247, 251, 260, 263â64, 314â15, 389
Gold, Ted, 88
Goldsmith, Barbara, 12â13, 84â86, 125, 126, 127, 129
Goldstein, Tom, 382
Good Fellas
(movie), 95
Goodman, Jerry, 248
Googled
(Auletta), 94
Gorbachev: The Making of the Man Who Changed the World
(Sheehy), 354â57, 393
Gorbachev, Mikhail: downfall of, 357; “emotional accidents” of, 354; GS's fantasy play about, 358; GS's study of and writings about, 341, 350â57, 365, 366, 371, 393; Nobel Peace Prize for, 356, 357; Reagan and, 348, 349; Thatcher and, 347â49, 357â58; Véronique and, 347
Gorbachev, Raisa, 349
Gordon, Max, 153
Gore, Albert, Jr., 329
Gould, Roger, 218â20
Grace Church School, Maura at, 122, 203
Graham, Caroline Cushing, 180
Graham, Donald, 243
Graham, Katherine “Kay”: and Clay-Lally Weymouth relationship, 207; and Clay-Murdoch relationship, 236â37; Clay's relationship with, 170, 171â72, 192â93, 207, 266; Kissinger dinner party and, 170â71, 172â73, 175â76, 178, 192; Mitchell's (John) comment about, 179; and Murdoch-Clay problems, 253; and
New York
magazine acquisition, 253, 255â56; and publication of
The Pentagon Papers
, 170, 171â72, 175; and
Village Voice
, 253, 255; Watergate story and, 176; Weymouth's relationship with, 243
Graham, Phil, 170
Grand Central Station (New York City), GS's youthful trips to, 25â26, 459
Grand Central Station
(radio show), 24
Grand Magic Vitamin Experiment, Nate's, 107â9, 110, 111
Great Depression, 22, 27
“The Great Valentine's Day Uprising” (Sheehy and Dobell), 99
Greed and Glory on Wall Street
(Auletta), 94
The Greely Street News
, as Clay's first broadsheet, 53
Greene, Gael, 245
Gregorian, Vartan, 374
Grey Gardens
(documentary), 155
Grey Gardens
(musical), 155â56
Grifo, Jamie, 364
Guber, Lynda, 366
Guber, Peter, 366
Gubernick, Lisa, 330
Guinness, Gloria, 6
gun control, Kennedy campaign and, 62â63, 66
H., Dr., 407â8
Halberstam, David, 89, 246, 317
Hamill, Pete, 202, 242, 389
Hamilton, Eva McCall, 191
Hamptons: Beale family in the, 150â56; Clay and GS in, 150, 221, 231, 415,
415
, 425â27; and Clay-GS relationship, 150, 182â83, 187â88; GS's house in, 231â33, 415,
415
, 421â28; and Kraft-Clay relationship, 173.
See also
Sag Harbor
happiness: of Clay, 440; in Felker-GS relationship, 316, 381â82; and
Pathfinders
research, 274
Harkins, Debbie, 101
Harmsworth, Vere, 100, 268, 270
HarperCollins publishers, 279, 354
Harriman, Averell, 121
Harriman, Pamela, 121, 346
Hart, Gary, 318, 319â24
Hart, Lee, 319, 322â23
Harvard Business School, 94, 95
Harvard Grant study, Vaillant's, 186
Hatch, Orrin, 404â5
Hawkins, John, 273
Hayes, Harold, 98
Hearst, William Randolph, 186
Heder, Darvy (Cambodian woman), 288, 290, 291, 299, 301, 447
Heinonen, Erkki, 284
Hellman, Lillian, 89, 339
Hell's Angels, 104
Hendrix, Jimi, 114
Henion, Gladys Latham Ovens (grandmother), 19,
20
, 23, 24, 25, 26â27, 28
Henion, Harold Merritt (father): appearance and personality of, 42â43; Bernice (golf friend) and, 19, 43; Connecticut commute of, 42â43; divorce and remarriage of, 42â43; eye of, 23; financial affairs of, 44, 103, 230; and GS as bestselling author, 230; and GS's childhood and youth, 16â18, 19, 233; and GS's college education, 27; and GS's elopement with McCarthy, 32â33, 34; GS's idealization of, 28; GS's New York City discussions with, 41â44, 109â10; and GS's panic attacks, 166; influence on GS of, 28; job search of, 109â10; Lillian's relationship with, 21, 22, 37, 53; midlife fantasy of, 44; new life of, 42â44, 109â10; as patriarch, 22; personal and professional background of, 22, 26â27, 57; photograph of,
20;
“Pretty Boy” as nickname for, 103; Trish's problems and, 103, 109â10
Henion, Harold Merritt (grandfather), 26â27
Henion, Lillian Rainey (mother): alcohol problems of, 21, 42, 43, 108, 134, 232, 433; Big Al and, 108, 232; as businesswoman, 232; death of, 337â38; divorce of, 42â43; dreams/ambitions of, 21â22; family background of, 57; as fun mother, 23; and GS's abortion, 34â35; and GS's childhood and youth, 17, 19, 22â23; and GS's elopement with McCarthy, 30, 31, 32â33, 34; and GS's fortieth birthday party, 233; Harold's relationship with, 21, 22, 37, 53; on
Hustling
tour with GS, 205; influence on GS of, 28, 37; Mohm and, 298; osteoporosis of, 363; passage of, 232, 298; photograph of,
20;
and Trish's problems, 108; women's movement and, 133â34
Henion, Susie (stepsister), 233
Henion, “Trish” (sister): arrest of, 110â11; birth of, 21; childhood of, 44; Clay and, 111; and Clay and GS in California, 388; Clay's death and, 446; college education of, 43, 44, 103, 115; and
Cosmopolitan
Paris trip, 103, 115; declaration of independence of, 103â4; drugs and, 104â13; Fantl marriage of, 115; and GS as caregiver, 439; GS's discussion with father about, 109â10; and GS's fortieth birthday party, 233; and GS's idealization of father, 28; and GS's Kennedy (Bobby) assignment, 61, 65, 66; and GS's spiritual fitness, 433; as Maura's caretaker, 103â4; Mohm and, 299, 300, 301; Nate and, 104â13; and parent's divorce, 42, 43; picture of,
206;
professional career of, 115; Woodstock trip of, 113â14
Henry, Sherrye, 446
Herald Tribune, New York “The Trib”: city room at, 11â13; Civil War era volumes of, 87; Clay at, 3, 7, 13â15, 86, 87, 245, 390; GS application for job at, 4, 5, 6; GS at, 3, 6â15, 46â47, 50â54, 73, 86, 180, 429, 459; women as feature writers at, 12â13
Herrmann, Ed, 451
Hewitt, Don, 292
“The Hidden Hart” (Sheehy), 320â21
Hill, Anita, 372, 404
Hillary's Choice
(Sheehy), 393, 401
hippies, 56, 76
Hirsch, George, 247
Ho Chi Minh, Steinem's story about, 83â84
Hog Farm commune, 114
Hollywood, Clay in, 293
Hollywood Women's Political Committee, 396
Hong Kong, Clay and GS in, 280â81
hormone replacement therapy, 362, 364â65
Horne, Lena, 336
Hughes, Howard, 154
Hughes, Langston, 336
Hussein, Saddam, 329
Hustling
(Sheehy), 149, 205, 451
Ickes, Harold, 402
Immigration Service, U.S., 301
income gap, between wealthy and middle class, 71
India: GS loss of notes about, 78â79; GS trip to, 73â79
Indianapolis, Indiana, GS on Kennedy (Bobby) assignment in, 58â59
insurance, maternity clinics and, 8
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 421, 426
International Creative Management (ICM), 97, 210
International Herald Tribune
, and
Passages
as bestseller, 229
International Rescue Committee (IRC), 287, 288, 299, 307
Iran-Contra, 328
Iraq War, 328
Ireland: GS's Bloody Sunday trip to, 157â64, 186, 198, 205, 211, 217, 316; writers' collective house in, 201â3
Irish Republican Army (IRA), 157â59, 162â64
“Is George Bush Too Nice to Be President” (Sheehy), 325
Isaacson, Walter, 339â40
Italy, GS-Maura trip to, 228â29
Jackson, Jesse, 329
Jaffe, Mark, 230
James, William, 195
Janklow, Morton, 370â71
Jaques, Elliott, 211
Javits, Jacob, 14
jazz: and Clay-GS at Dizzy's Club, 444â45; at Clay's memorial, 447â48
J.C. Penney, GS's job with, 36â37, 459
Jennings, Peter, 339
Jewell, George, 39â40
Jewish Home Life Care facility, Clay at, 421, 429â30
Jockey Club (Miami Beach), 165
John (friend), 45
Johnson, Lyndon B., 64, 172, 319, 324, 337
Jong, Erica, 205
Joplin, Janis, 114
Jung, Carl, 210
Kamel, Madame, 303â4, 306
Kandel, Bethany, 330
Kansas State University, Kennedy (Bobby) speech at, 60
Kaufman, Elaine, 238
Kempner, Tom, 262, 263
Kennedy, Edward “Ted,” 246
Kennedy, Ethel, 62, 63, 64, 65
Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier, 6, 56, 150, 152â53, 155, 243â44
Kennedy, John F., 5, 12, 59â60, 64, 93, 152, 154, 244, 323, 324
Kennedy, Joseph P., Jr., 152, 154, 156
Kennedy, Joseph P., Sr., 59, 154â55, 156
Kennedy, Robert F. “Bobby,” 57â66, 152, 182, 317, 324, 459
Kesey, Ken, 12
KGB, 351â52
Khao-I-Dang (Cambodian refugee camp), 283â85
Kheel, Ted, 232, 259
Khrushchev, Nikita, 60
Kilpatrick, James J., 183
King, Larry, 401
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 5, 58â59
Kissinger, Henry, dinner party for, 168, 169â79, 192, 193