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...LUCK O' THE Irish" and a sense of inevitable victory pervaded the Statler-Hilton ballroom as supporters watched the precinct-by-precinct progress of "our Joey's" challenge to Hicks. Moakley and his supporters were rolling in four-leaf clovers by the end of the night as official election returns confirmed his victory...

Author: By Dale S. Russakoff, | Title: Moakley 'Brings the People Together' | 11/15/1972 | See Source »

Died. Harry MacGregor Woods, 73, prolific songwriter of the '20s and '30s, whose many hits included When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain, I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover, When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbin' Along, Side by Side and River, Stay Away from My Door; of injuries suffered when he was struck by a car; in Phoenix, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 26, 1970 | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

Scotland's Jimmy Clark, 28, is everything a world champion auto racer ought to be: bright, cool, daring, earnest, fearless-and lucky as a field full of four-leaf clovers. Last week he won the 280-mile Belgian Grand Prix to make it two out of three races so far this year. And he didn't even realize what he was doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: How to Win in Belgium By Not Really Coasting | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

...hammered bronze stand talking to each other, their arms poised in a way so questioning that one can almost hear their dialogue: "Where do we go from here?'' "How the devil should I know?" In another part of the room, a marvelously attenuated adolescent boy clutches a four-leaf clover and gazes imploringly at the ceiling; he is called The Wish. The pieces are both funny and sad, a bit crude and yet full of vitality. On view at Manhattan's Graham Gallery, they are the work of the Czech-born sculptor Ludvik Durchanek: a rough-hewn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Stab of Truth | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

Other Kennedys are clutching at four-leaf clovers in the wind. William F. is a candidate for registrar of probate of Suffolk County; Joseph W. wants to be representative from the eleventh Bristol district; Thomas E. Jr. is running for a commissioner's seat in Essex County, and Miss Mary Kennedy will try to break the Republican stranglehold on the Sixth Congressional District. Obviously, the Kennedys of Massachusetts cannot lose-except to each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: A Good Kennedy Year | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

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