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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19900608
Author:Hank Burchard

SCANDAL PERMEATES the National Portrait Gallery's new exhibit on Henry Adams and his circle of friends and lovers, whose secret lives belied their public posture as eminent Victorians.

The inner ring of Adams's Washington circle was known as the Five of Hearts. It embraced Adams and Marion Hooper "Clover" Adams, his talented but tragically father-fixated wife; John Hay, private secretary to Abraham Lincoln and secretary of state to two other presidents; and Clara Stone Hay, an Ohio heiress and the only one of the group who practiced what she preached. The fifth and most notorious "Heart" ...

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