Word: hard-luck
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...players complained all year about fan support at the home games and they were more than justified. The people in the odd-number sections at Watson were disgustingly more vocal all season, but then again, even an Ivy League replay of Broncomania might not have pulled the hard-luck Crimson through...
...hard-luck Tigers (10-9, 4-3 Ivy) invade tonight, when the Crimson hopes to avenge an 83-64 defeat at Jadwin early in reading period...
Plimpton's subject matter may have dictated the change. Boxing has traditionally attracted a more unsavory following than the major team sports. Generally, its heroes have been hard-luck kids who apprenticed to the trade with bareknuckle street bouts, who became good fighters because they were hungry fighters. Historically, though, boxing fans have always included a contingent of aristocrats and writers. The boxing world will never have the wholesomeness of Monday night football, and Plimpton accepts this. He devotes more than a chapter to the story of a brazen stick-up at a post-fight party in Atlanta, at which...
...hapless fly that jiggles a grotesque web of relationships. As Spellacy discovers, the path of the victim's life crisscrossed his own world of Irish-American Los Angeles just after World War II. It is a lively place where an archbishop plays weekly croquet with Samuel Goldwyn, a hard-luck punk goes to the gas chamber for kidnaping a girl on V-J day, and a leading Catholic contractor short-weights the church. It is also a place where, as Spellacy reminds us, new money and social pretensions cannot disguise the old-country "harps." On the fringes...
...Living through the same horrors as the people I was interviewing, I had no problem establishing a rapport," says Correspondent Richard Woodbury, who had just been reassigned from Chicago to Miami and was looking for housing of his own in Florida. "Like survivors of some shipwreck, we compared hard-luck stories and exorbitant prices. Buyers were eager to pour out their tales." Woodbury's assignment in the end proved a blessing. A source gave him a tip that led him to an apartment overlooking Biscayne Bay. Says Woodbury: "Ideal, and the price, $50 under my budget. I move...