Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NINE-TIGER MAN by Lesley Blanch. 246 pages. Afheneum...
...synopsis, this novel suggests just one more Yul Brynner movie. In detail, it is something quite different: a wildly funny satire. Brynner's part is taken by the Rao Jagnabad, a glitteringly bejeweled, savagely personable hunter-princeling known as the Nine-Tiger Man. When the Sepoy Mutiny erupts in Delhi, the English dispatch their women to the Rao's palace, confident that they will be out of harm's way. The Rao briskly institutes a private mutiny of his own. He transforms the matrons into concubines, and the proper Victorians are soon fighting to embrace a fate...
Princeton's hitting is rather weak, however, and the only ultra-consistent Tiger batter is Jack Singer, an outfielder whose average is in the vicinity...
...finals Friday, and if ever a team can "up" for a game, Princeton will be up or this one. When the two teams met New York's Holiday Festival Tournament, Princeton held a 73-63 lead with four minutes to play, when All-American Bill Bradley fouled out. The Tigers ollapsed. With a full-court press that thoroughly discomfitted the sophomore-nominated Tiger squad, Michigan...
Bradley sank 14 of 20 field goal attempts, and 13 of 13 foul shots, but the entire Tiger quintet was brilliant. In the first half Princeton hit 65 per cent of its shots from the floor and rolled up a 47-34 lead. Providence, one of the nation's best defensive teams, was completely helpless against the Tigers' shooting and Bradley's great playmaking...