The six Mapp and Lucia novels by Edward Frederic Benson, one of the most popular short-story writers and novelists of the Edwardian period, continue to enjoy a worldwide cult following more than seventy years after the publication of Queen Lucia (1920)....
In the last two decades of the twentieth century, it seems certain that more people on both sides of the Atlantic have seen E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson's best-known characters, Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas and Elizabeth Mapp, than have read about them. In 1...
Grapevine Michaels, Madden look like a winning team By ANDY FENELON Thursday, August 29, 2002 Edition No. 2 of the Madden-Michaels show came to Green Bay on Monday night. And it's quickly becoming clear that ABC has done a very...
Michael Westbrook had one of the best games of his professional life Sunday night against the New York Giants: nine catches - a couple of the spectacular variety - for 125 yards. But all most people will remember is the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty he...
NASA's new administrator, Michael Griffin , who was sworn in on April 14, 2005, overruled the agency's top safety officer and chief engineer and directed that the July 2006 launch of the space shuttle Griffin , obviously pleased when Griffin was an experienced leader...
We all know how many celebrities are just plain "eccentric," but Mr. Jackson, you take the mothereffing cake. When people call you "Wacko Jacko" it's sometimes a term of endearment. Like, "There goes that Wacko Jacko again; he's sleeping in a glass chamber." "Oh that's...
