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Sep 11, 1989 Vol. 32 No. 11

Queen, Pawns, Checkmate

September 11, 1989

Cover Story

Queen, Pawns, Checkmate

Leona Helmsley Lived Regally, but Witnesses Described Her as a Royal Pain, and the Public Found Her Guilty of More Than Tax Fraud

Pg. 94

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Table of Contents

Articles

In This Issue

Pg. 4

Murder of Innocence in Africa

It Cost His Life, but George Adamson of Born Free Never Gave in to Kenya's Poachers

Pg. 46

Hollywood's Hippest Turn Out for (and Join In) the Who's Last Tommy Waltz

Pg. 52

What Hath John Waters Wrought? A Musical with a Cast You Wouldn't Believe

Pg. 54

Writer Salman Rushdie's Life on the Run Leaves His Marriage to Marianne Wiggins on the Rocks

Pg. 60

After a Courageous Comeback, a Star Pitcher Breaks His Arm but Keeps His Faith Intact

Pg. 69

Swimming Is Oscar's Only Real Skill—but He Predicts Earthquakes on the Side

Pg. 77

It Was Shake-the-World Time for Lech Walesa in Poland, but Polka Time for His Son in America

Pg. 81

A Medical Breakthrough Gives New Hope to David Reitz—and All Kids with Cystic Fibrosis

Pg. 83

No Fib—in sex, lies, and videotape, Newcomer Laura San Giacomo Provides Plenty of the First

Pg. 90

Women Want All of Clint Black—Including His Fingernails

Pg. 101

Driven by An Unquenchable Spirit, a Massachusetts Woman Writes An Impossible Book

Pg. 107

Suiting Science to a T (Shirt), Two Chicago Bar Owners Set Up a Stephen Hawking Fan Club

Pg. 111

He Remembers When the Saber Was Mightier, but Now Bengal Lancer Francis Ingall Takes Up the Pen

Pg. 113

Diana Vreeland, Fashion's Formidable First Lady, Set the Styles for Generations

Pg. 119

Willie Dixon

After Prison Farms, Years of Poverty and Song Royalties Gone Astray, the Bossman of Blues Finally Has Reason to Smile

Pg. 120

Zsa Zsa Gabor Has Been Courted Before, but This Time It's a Trial

The Outrageous Zsa Zsa Gabor Slaps a Cop and Must Now Have Her Day in Court

Pg. 128

Playing All the Anglers, TV's Babe Winkelman Hooks a Huge Piscatorial Audience

Pg. 132

Also In This Issue

Publisher's Letter

Pg. 1

Mailbag

Pg. 6

Take One

Pg. 45

Chatter

Pg. 134

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