Word: scarlets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Analyzing comparative margins of victory against common opponents also draws a blank. Harvard beat Rutgers by six seconds, while Princeton beat the Scarlet Knights by only two seconds...
Things could be different this year, however. While the Lions again should not be a factor, the Scarlet Knights have put together a strong lightweight crew. Last week they beat a good Pennsylvania team that experts had tagged as a crew to watch this season...
...SCARLET RUSE 318 pages. Fawcett...
...Scarlet Ruse and The Turquoise Lament are the 14th and 15th installments of MacDonald's serially published dream manual about the beachboy Hamlet, Travis McGee. This paladin is a roughneck who lives on a houseboat in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., despoiling stewardesses and brooding about the decline of the West. He quests forth, when funds are low, to do battle for the dread forces of reality-a Robin Hood among chattel rustlers who steals loot back from thugs and swindlers and returns it, minus a 50% commission, to the widows and orphans from whom it was taken. Oftener than...
...McGee mixture is an agreeable blend of boat lore, suspense, machismo, sex and lighthearted sadism. The Scarlet Ruse turns on the theft of $500,000 worth of rare postage stamps. In The Turquoise Lament, McGee learns that a thieving Florida lawyer blocks the forward progress of justice-and of the plot. He invades the miscreant's country estate, eases him from the middle of a disgraceful orgy, binds him and drops him live into a freshly dug backwoods grave-a marvel of vengeful fantasy. Lawyers are the schoolyard bullies of modern society, against whom no ordinary child dares battle...