Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Birth of a Tiger Cat. The rise of Lin Piao to the penultimate rung on the Peking ladder of power is itself the story of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. No one in his native Hupeh province would have expected him to become a guerrilla leader 19 years after he was born in Twisting Dragon Hill, the son of a felt-factory owner. In Manchu China, boys would be soldiers: off to Canton's Whampoa Military Academy went Lin, where he studied under Chiang Kaishek, in the company of such revolutionary notables as Chou...
...Whampoa, he changed his name from Yu-Yung (Fostering Demeanor) to Piao (Tiger Cat). With that, he sprang into the field, and by the late 1920s, he was a regimental commander for the puritanical Communist General Chu Teh, whose political officer was a plump, moonfaced youngster named Chen Yi, now Peking's Foreign Minister. Many of Chu's 40,000 troops were armed with bows and arrows, and his artillery consisted of hollow logs loaded with rocks and scrap metal. The troopers sang Chinese versions of Dixie and raided Nationalist camps on feast days in order...
...Tiger Skins...
There she is, alone in the jungle, menaced by a great, girl-eating tiger. She buys him off with her beautiful green sash. Then an alligator wants to eat her. Thinking fast, she trades her little blue dress for her life. And so it goes, as tropical stripteaser Little White Squibba faces more perils than Pauline. Squibba is the heroine of a just-published British children's book by the late Helen Bannerman, famed for her 1899 classic Little Black Sambo. The manuscript had been in her lawyer's safe for 20 years. But why is Squibba white...
...wealthy British family; Alice Roosevelt's Nicholas Longworth was a Representative who later became House Speaker; Jessie Wilson's was Francis Bowes Sayre, a lawyer; Eleanor Wilson's was William Gibbs McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury; and Anna Roosevelt's second husband was John Boet-tiger, a newspaper correspondent. *Whereby draft-eligible men may fulfill their military obligations by serving a few months on active duty and then participating in training sessions and summer encampments for a total of six years. During that time, their units may be mobilized at any time in case of local...