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...less dedicated Guthrie fans, RCA Victor's reissue of the Dust Bowl Ballads is a good sampling, and Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs, Vol. 2 (Folkways) includes some lighter moments like Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy and The Talking Hard-Luck Blues...
...extruded aluminum foils lifted the hull several feet above the waves, her speed crept up to 32 m.p.h., and she went winging across the surface of Long Island Sound like the hydrodynamic sea bird she is. Then-shades of the Ancient Mariner!-the debut was dampened by another hard-luck story. Off Hewlett Point lay a disabled cabin cruiser with smoke pouring from its engine compartment. t was the Bobbilee II, owned by Investment Banker Robert Lehman, and aboard as Lehman's guests were Movie Mogul Samuel Goldwyn and his wife...
...manager is unlisted to avoid the calls he used to get from irate parents whose children he had to eject for rowdiness. Night workers who sleep during the day often have their phones unlisted, and so do some old ladies who are painfully conscious of their vulnerability to a hard-luck story. Doctors and top executives sometimes keep one phone unlisted for outgoing calls only, and the parents of teen-agers often find it expedient to turn the listed phone over to the children and keep an unlisted one themselves...
...hard-luck boat of the trials was Paul V. Shield's Columbia, the 1958 America's Cup champion, which managed to win only four races, suffered a crowning indignity when her 90-ft., extruded aluminum mast snapped during a race with Nefertiti, pitching two crewmen overboard and sending the heavy boom crashing down inches from the head of Designer Olin Stephens. But nobody counted Columbia out; many of her losses were by a margin of seconds. Even hapless Easterner, which won only one race, was not ready to quit, with Olympic Champion George...
...fourth offender has no more thought of being captured and punished than the juvenile delinquent. The criminal refuses to believe that anything short of Fate led to his capture--not fate in the sense that capture is inevitable, but Fate personified, a malicious god responsible for that one hard-luck chance in a million. It is a senseless belief, but remember that it is held by the ignorant--not the stupid, the ignorant. Men in prison are uneducated men; few are stupid, if by stupid we mean unable to learn, moronic...