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...Hall brothers claim to have fostered quite a few innovations. They were first with the "humorous" greeting ("You have the strength of a TIGER . . . lily!"). They developed the unfolding card that tells a continued story, and leveled out the seasonal peaks & valleys of the business by pushing the "everyday" card for birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, sympathy and the sick. Today, customers have a choice of six different Hallmark cards for the tonsillectomy patient alone; once there was even one for the friend who has been run down by a car. Other tricks of the trade: white kittens on cards will always...
...TIGER IN THE GARDEN (278 pp.)-Speed Lamkin-Houghton Mifflin...
...long been grist for other writers' mills. Young (22) Louisiana-born, Harvard-bred Speed Lamkin knows a lot about the decline and decay of the old plantation set, who made small talk while energetic commoners made big money and powered the New South. In his first novel, Tiger in the Garden, Lamkin boldly washes some old sectional linen in public, as if it hadn't already been scrubbed by the Caldwells, Weltys and Faulkners...
Princeton's proud polo team will be heavily handicapped at future home games. It's not that the Tiger malletmen are proving too good for competition; it just seems that they've run out of horses...
...Hainan hand, a foreigner who has lived on the island for 25 years, gives the Little Tiger credit for the beginning of progress. "Why, the people are actually showing some respect for the soldiers," he says. "If they have the heart to fight, these troops could make it tough for the Communists...