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...discovers that the same car was used in the payroll job. Puzzled, he rushes off to testify about something or other at Old Bailey, but the case gets clearer when he checks out a lead on the late inspector's lady friend. On her premises he gets a fluke chance to catch the main man with cash in hand. And so on until well after midnight, when the chief inspector arrives home at last -coat torn, temper frayed, and bloody well ready for a little appreciation. "George!" his wife hisses with disgust. "You've been drinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 8, 1959 | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...Free Opinion." In Independent editorials, Herter crusaded for clean government, urged the U.S. to "shed its isolationist fears" and join the League of Nations. In 1929-30, after selling his interest in the Independent, he lectured at Harvard on international relations. Then, by what he calls a "pure fluke," he got into politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The New Secretary | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...Three Princes of Serendip) of finding good things without having to seek them. He has never sought a new job, says Herter, because he always liked whatever he was doing; he was often urged or invited. "Almost every step I've taken," he says, "was a pure fluke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The New Secretary | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

This is the Pirates' year, however, as Branch Rickey's building process, which began eight years ago, will flower this season. The Bucs made a good run at Milwaukee last year, but if they had won, it would have been somewhat of a fluke. Thanks to the key trade this winter that brought to them a catcher who could hit, a steady left-hand starter, and a good third baseman all in exchange for an excellent third baseman, a Pirate victory this year would be no fluke...

Author: By Tampa JIM Benkard, | Title: National League: Pittsburgh Picked To End Long Era of Dismal Finishes | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

...builder of the atomic submarine seems to have thought more about the demands which reality places upon America than about the equipment with which we must meet this crisis. He sees very clearly that we are at the brink of disaster, that the Sputnik was not merely a fluke, and that unless a revolution takes place, our economic and technical advantage over the Soviets will soon be a matter of history. But he is perhaps overly optimistic in supposing that the schools can remedy this cultural...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Pres. Conant, Adm. Rickover: 2 Prescriptions for Our Time | 2/13/1959 | See Source »

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