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Arrival by Fluke. Composer Engel started his first opera, Alfred, when he was ten ("I spent a great deal of time block-lettering the title at the top of the score"), eventually won a graduate scholarship to Juilliard, studied composition with craggy Modernist Roger Sessions. He arrived on Broadway "purely by fluke" when he persuaded Melvyn Douglas to let him write new incidental music for a Broadway production of Sean O'Casey's Within the Gates. That was in 1934, and since then Composer-Conductor Engel has had a hand in such diverse Broadway shows as Maurice Evans...
Playing as if they and not their name-sakes had invented lacrosse, the Dartmouth Indians overwhelmed the varsity, 13 to 1, Saturday on the Business School field. The freshmen team proved that their strong showing against Exeter two weeks ago was no fluke by defeating the Dartmouth freshmen...
...Scheme for Security. Elected governor on a fluke in 1954, re-elected last year, Orval Faubus was right where he wanted to be. He was the chief executive of a sovereign state; he hobnobbed with political bigwigs; he was, at last, looked up to. Orval Faubus planned to stay in Little Rock. Politics had given him position and respectability; he had nothing to go back to. But how would he hang on? Arkansas has a strong tradition against a third term for a governor. Moreover, his popularity was slipping: he had raised taxes, alienated his liberal followers by granting rate...
...Diefenbaker won his first case on a fluke, he quickly picked up the knack of winning others on his merits. Of 20 murder cases that he tried, only two clients went to the hangman. "He's a spellbinder before a jury," says an associate. "He would start his defense by working on one member of the jury, pitching to him exclusively. When he had him, he would start on the second and so on until he had the whole jury won." Says Diefenbaker: "I just chat with the jury...
...major problem Architect Breuer had to solve was wished on him by a few fluke misses by the Luftwaffe and the decision of the Rotterdam planning commission to incorporate the beneficiaries of those misses-two surviving buildings-into the pattern of the widened street, making it necessary to bring the building line forward at each street corner. To avoid an L-shaped building, Breuer hit on the idea of letting sculpture take care of the bulge...