Word: hard-luck
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DIED. Ann Dvorak, 67, brunette film star of the '30s and '40s who debuted as Paul Muni's sister in the 1932 gangland classic Scarface; of cancer; in Honolulu. The smoky-voiced Dvorak was best known for playing suffering, hard-luck women opposite such stars as James Cagney (The Crowd Roars), Dick Powell (College Coach) and Spencer Tracy (Sky Devils...
...McOsker lost his stuff, letting in two runs on wild pitches in the seventh and three more on four straight hard-luck singles with two out in the eighth...
...Crimson took the lead for keeps with four runs in the second. Freshman Dan Skaff, in his first varsity at but, walked with the bases louded to score Chuck Marshall with the first Harvard run. Second-baseman Bobby Kelley then broke out of his hard-luck batting slump with a single to right that Chuck Tillett's Albert DeSalvo hands turned into three RBIs and a 4-0 Harvard lead...
Number-one singles man Lundy fought another hard-luck battle Saturday as the Harvard captain grooved his injury-adjusted serves to highly-touted Quaker Murray Robinson and lost, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. Lundy put up a fight, but only to see his late-match comeback fall just short...
...never understood, shrugs Carol Burnett, the success of her CBS variety show: "When a good movie is on, I watch it instead." But audiences always loved hard-luck Eunice and the other antic victims Burnett has played for eleven years, 286 programs. Alas, The Carol Burnett Show signs off the air this week. "It's classier to leave before you're asked to go," says Burnett. How does she explain her durability on the tube? Maybe, she says, it is because she has a "tinge of being amateurish" and is just an ordinary "whitebread woman." Audiences might...