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...except that it's four feet long and slender." But the dictionary defined snoek as a form of barracuda, and Strachey's press conference broke up under the firm impression that snoek was a maritime menace. A Daily Mail headline promptly labeled the snoek as the "Tiger of the Seas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Snoek | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

Reservations are still available at the Puritan and Sheraton for the Nassan game and the Rutgers clash. Best bet is the Puritan however for the Shcraton will be filled with the Tiger team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hotel Reservations Still Available To House Feminine Football Guests | 10/15/1947 | See Source »

Agustín's son Gustavo went off with Villa's army. "I could never look into Villa's eyes," Gustavo recalls. "They were like tiger's eyes." Brother Miguel followed Obregón, who liked to stay up talking until 4 in the morning. "He'd never drink himself, but he'd feed us coffee and cognac, talk about fighting ahead or swap the latest filthy stories." Because the campesino's hero, Emiliano Zapata, refused to let Agustín and other newsmen cover his ragged army, and shot up their press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Royal Family | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

Norris, a member of the Varsity swimming team for the past two years, defeated three-time winner Steve Wosniak, former Michigan all-American John McCarthy, and entries from Yale and Princeton. Trueblee Habeler, the Tiger competitor, won the 440 yard free style in the Harvard-Princeton meet last winter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swimmer Wins AAU Crown Despite Crippled Leg | 8/28/1947 | See Source »

Many of the tales are set in Washington, where the author spent part of the war in the OWI. They gleam with tarnished Army brass, crawl with Army wives as loose as granny knots. The Captain's Tiger will add little to Weidman's reputation, shows that even tough-guy fiction can be written to a formula as predictable as slick-paper romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Tiger Scratches | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

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