Word: hard-luck
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...heroine, is admittedly Marilyn. Gable's Gay, the aging cowboy, obviously speaks for Miller. The two meet in Reno, where she has spent six weeks getting a divorce and he has spent 30 years getting divorcees. He takes her to an isolated cabin, listens to interminable hard-luck stories out of Marilyn's childhood, falls improbably in love, hauls her off to a rodeo with two of his buddies (Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach). She is terrified by the violence she sees there; he is bewildered by her inability to accept death as a part of life-in effect...
...great Ray Norton, 22, came from behind with his long, driving stride to finish in 10.4 sec. and barely beat out Villanova's Frank Budd. A tie for third made team mem bers of Paul Winder of Morgan State (Md.) and Duke's Dave Sime, the hard-luck star sprinter who pulled a muscle in 1956 and did not make the Olympic squad. In the 200 meters around a turn, Norton again rallied to win going away in 20.5 sec. to tie the world record...
Gift of Gab. In Yonkers, N.Y., after Patrick Crough. 53, was robbed of $8 by two gunmen, he told them such a hard-luck story that they gave...
Surrendered Crown. Tall, handsome Leopold III, 57, was a hard-luck monarch. His queen, Astrid of Sweden, died in 1935 when a car driven by Leopold crashed into a tree. In 1940 Leopold refused the urgent pleas of his ministers to escape to London and set up a government in exile. Instead he surrendered to the Nazis and, while his nation was still occupied by Germans, married pretty Liliane Baels, the commoner daughter of a Belgian politician. At war's end Leopold moved on from Germany to Switzerland while liberated Belgium held a plebiscite to determine whether...
Words & Works. Sponsored by the city, the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, the project is no quick educational cureall. The hope is to try to balance the dragging weight of the children's hard-luck homes with a long-range program of understanding help at school. Project classes are small (range: ten to 28); teachers are carefully briefed on each child's background; the children are taken on after-hours class trips, get repeated personal counseling. At George Washington, stocky, balding Counselor David Schulman, who grew up in Brooklyn...