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...People in America were willing to work much harder than in Britain," Goldsmith says, rubbing a lemon-size piece of amber as he paces up and down in an almost bare penthouse office, which overlooks the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. "Most people forget that America's strength is not its culture but its ideology, and that ideology is freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lucky Gambler: Sir James Goldsmith Is a Billionaire Buccaneer | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...comic characters who accurately reflect familiar and self-important fixtures in New York life. At the top of the heap are "social X rays," rumpless women of a certain age who believe one cannot be too rich or too thin. Sixtyish men of this stratum are frequently accompanied by "lemon tarts," sleek, young blonds. Sherman McCoy is a decent well-bred sort, neither more nor less lustful than most confident 38-year-old males and particularly amusing when he gives facts and figures about how one can go broke in Manhattan on $1 million a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Haves and the Have-Mores THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES by Tom Wolfe; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 659 pages; $19.95 | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...against the greatest team of post-war baseball, the Indians with 111 victories in a 154-game season, and a pitching staff of Lemon, Wynn, Garcia and an aging but able Bob Feller. I bet every cent I won (about two bucks) at long odds on the hometown boys, and the Giants win in 4 as Dusty Rhodes emerges from the bench into ephermeral glory. I end up with about 12 bucks and considered myself the richest kid in town...

Author: By Stephen J. Gould, | Title: On Rooting | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

Martin resigned in tears the next day on a hotel balcony in Kansas City, Mo., and he was replaced by Bob Lemon. But just five days later, Steinbrenner announced that Martin would return as manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Martin Returns to Manage Yankees for Fifth Time | 10/20/1987 | See Source »

...Trammell. DP--Detroit 1, Minnesota 1. LOB--Detroit 4, Minnesota 3. 2B--Gaetti, Brunansky, Laudner. HR--Lemon (1), Hrbek (1), Whitaker (1). SB--Whitaker (1), Sheridan (1), Bush 2 (2). S--Brookens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minnesota Defeats Tigers, 6-3 | 10/9/1987 | See Source »

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