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Sat 11 Nov 2006Right time, right place, right man
Interview/George Kimball: From golf with Michael Jordan to being married by George Foreman, from nude saunas with Joe DiMaggio to drinking sessions with Hunter S Thompson, from living in JFK's former home to friendship with Muhammad Ali - legendary American sports writer George Kimball guides Keith Duggan through some parts of his amazingly colourful life
When George Kimball was young, his post was sent to The Lion's Head on Sheridan Square in Manhattan's Grenwich Village, and for years the now-vanished drinking house provided the address on his passport. Persuading Kimball, who has lived in a bewildering variety of international and American locations, to pinpoint precisely where "home" means to him is no easy task.
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