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- Sep. 16, 1991: Business Notes:Novelties
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 16, 1991 Can This Man Save Our Schools?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 49
- Business Notes
- NOVELTIES
- It Can't Top a Honus Wagner
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- <p> At first glance, they may look like the heroes featured in
- traditional baseball cards, but the 36 hardball players
- immortalized in the Savings & Loan Scandal Trading Cards are
- best known not for their hits or their runs but for their
- headline-grabbing errors. Presidential favorite son Neil Bush,
- political puppet master Charles Keating and junk-bond giant
- Michael Milken are among the reluctant celebrities honored in
- the latest offering from California's Eclipse Enterprises, whose
- previous politically risque parodies also feature palm-size
- portraits of front-page phenoms--such as Neil Bush's dad in
- Iran-Contra Scandal Trading Cards.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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