Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breaking in a new generation. Harry Lillis Crosby III, 7, came on with the old man for a taped Christmas production of ABC's Hollywood Palace, crooned through a treble version of Oh Come, Little Children that had Papa Bing Crosby, 61, muttering proudly backstage: "Say, that little tiger did all right." While the boys were hamming it up for TV, Mama Kathy Grant Crosby took Mary Frances, 6, up to the Hyatt Music Theater near San Francisco to make her debut as a bit-player in a musical Peter Pan but alas, Kathy got panned as Peter...
Tweaking the tail of a tiger is chancy sport, as the American Football League discovered last week. The A.F.L. had been feeling pretty big: this year's attendance was 23% higher than 1964's, that lovely TV loot was rolling in at the rate of $7,200,000 a year, and the caliber of play around the league had improved to the point where sportswriters were calling for a "World Series" between the A.F.L. and the older (by 40 years) National Football League. After five years of trying to forget that the A.F.L. even existed, the N.F.L. finally...
...admitted that "willy-nilly" nationalization had not worked out well. "It was like having caught hold of a tiger's tail," he said, "but there was nothing else to do but hang on to it." After all, he pointed out, Red China, Russia and the U.S. have occasional economic troubles; it is his proud boast that Burma borrows the best from both Communism and capitalism while keeping isolated and independent of each. Maybe, suggested some in the seminar, Brigadier General Tin Pe, until recently head of the people's stores and the most Marxist officer...
...ever seen L.S.U. play in Tiger Stadium before 80,000 screaming fans, or the Celtics before 15,000 in the Garden, then you know what it is like to meet the Army squash team at West Point...
Soon his health began to fail. In 1962 he quit for good to retire to his home in Connecticut and write an autobiography implausibly titled Paper Tiger. "I left the Trib in disappointment and rage both times," he lamented. But honest rage was more than half the secret of Stanley Woodward's success as a sports editor...