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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sunday morning at Oxford, Al Cortone, a discharged G.I., catches up with Dickstein, who as a wartime tommy had saved his life in Sicily. The Soviet, the Palestinian, the Jew and the Yank meet over sherry at the house of Stephen Ashford, professor of Semitic literature, and his ravishing Lebanese wife. The Ashfords' small daughter Suza is there too. Over the amontillado, conversations come and go, foreshadowing characters' destinies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crafty Ploy | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...world. Dickstein is also dogged by his own mistrustful Mossad; his most useful ally turns out to be Wartime Buddy Cor tone, now a Mafia don. And, for the first time in a bitter life, Nat falls in love; the object of his unexpected affection is Suza Ashford, a look-alike of her mother who almost winds up as a dead ringer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crafty Ploy | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...Chuck Klein, 170; 118. Stan Musial, Ernie Banks; 119. Al Kaline, Carl Yastrzemski, Lou Brock; 120. 96, Ninety-six, South Carolina; 121. Bob Gibson; 122. Dave DeBusschere; 123. Dick Groat; 124. Tim Stoddard; 125. Cal Hubbard; 126. Bill Haller; 127. Bill Valentine. Al Salerno: 128. Larry Barnett; 129. Emmett Ashford; 130. Bill Klem; 131. Joe Cronin, $250,000; 132. Gene Conley, Pumps i.e., Green, fly to Israel...they were found drunk at the airport; 133. Theodore S. Williams; 134. Nellie Fox, Luis Aparicio...the award was presented by midget Eddie Gaedel; 135. Don Drysdale had pitched his sixth consecutive shutout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Answers to 1979 Cube Baseball Quiz | 10/18/1979 | See Source »

This gathering of friends is like a celebration of a big event, when everyone around wants to make it memorable and special. The writing team of Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson, authors of "I'm Every Woman," even sang the backup vocals with Khan on Quincy Jones's "Stuff Like That." And the event The emergence of Khan doing things her way, but not alone...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Help From Her Friends | 12/14/1978 | See Source »

...over roller skates on the landing, as well as many singles who feel the mere presence of children will cramp their swinging lifestyle. The policy also makes economic sense to landlords for whom tenants' children can create maintenance problems. But what are young parents to do? Says Dora Ashford, director of the Los Angeles Fair Housing for Children Coalition: "People with children are a desperate class of renter right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Adults Only | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

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