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Princeton lost a basketball game to the varsity last night at the Blockhouse, 64 to 59, for Harvard's biggest upset of the year. Ed Smith ran all around a series of awkward Tiger centers to score 31 points, which proved to be the deciding factor...
...Crimson used an effective switching man-to-man defense which kept Princeton from getting loose on the outside. The varsity's first-half shooting was their best of the year--42 percent. Tiger center Foster Cooper made three personal fouls in less than nine minutes--it was the only way he could stop Smith. Only fine rebounding by Dave Sislor and Fred Tritschler kept the Tigers in contention...
...evenly-contested middle period was only 3:13 old when Doug Anderson converted Carl Timpson's pass into a 45 foot shot that slipped under the stick of Tiger goalie Rod Cole. Weeden got it back six minutes later while Johnny White was sitting out a penalty and the period ended in a 2 to 2 deadlock...
...third period fireworks began when Kittredge was thumbed out for high sticking at 5:57. While he was out, Princeton defenseman Alex Mills connected on a blue-line blast that caught the upper right corner of the Harvard nets and Weeden made good from close in to give the Tigers a 4 to 2 margin at 7:43. Thirty seconds later the Crimson pulled within one point of a tie when Kittredge took Walt Greeley's relay from Amory Hubbard rounded the Princeton defense and shot from close in. At 15:11 Hubbard carried across the Tiger blue-line...
...whale of a story was not quite enough for Calcutta-born John Masters, 36, a wartime brigadier with Wingate in Burma, who has tackled the subject in a first novel. Faithfully following a popular formula (the book is a Literary Guild choice), Masters has lugged in such sideshows as tiger hunts, cholera epidemics and sweaty sessions between Hero Savage and a nubile native queen. ("Her bare thighs were warm, and her hands were on him...'I did wrong...but go on, go on. I love you.' ") Rodney Savage is a man of good will...