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...abortive effort to place a 20-in. weather satellite into orbit, the Navy's hard-luck Vanguard rocket belched flames and steam, rose three-quarters of an inch off its Cape Canaveral launching pad, then settled gently back into place. Because of a "random failure," the first-stage rocket engine had shut off automatically just in time to prevent Vanguard from toppling over and exploding, saving it to fly again another day. Vanguard's sorry record to date: seven tries, six failures...
Mahogany-varnished Easterner was soon labeled the hard-luck ship. While being hauled, she fell out of her cradle, got badly scratched. In her first race, her winches fouled up, and she was forced to quit. Designed by C. Raymond Hunt, Easterner is called "a family boat" by her owner, Boston Banker Chandler Hovey, who has tried three times before to produce a Cup defender (with Yankee in 1930 and 1934, with Rainbow in 1937). She will be skippered by his sons Charles and Chandler...
Seven Lively Arts: "The blues to me," said hard-luck Singer Billie Holiday sipping a cup of coffee, "are like being very sad, very sick-and again, like going to church and being very happy. We've got to do right by the blues on TV, because the blues deserve the best." At air time, Billie sat on top of a bare stool and cuddled up to an old jazz-cult favorite, Fine and Mellow ("My man don't love me, he shakes me awful mean"), and did just dandy by the blues. And, for the balance...
Hugo La Fayette Black, 71, President Roosevelt's first (and then-furiously opposed) appointee to the bench. Grew up in poverty in Alabama, studied his law at the University of Alabama, built a practice on hard-luck clients, served briefly as police magistrate, entered the Senate in 1927. There he fought hard for New Deal, built a reputation as a relentless Senate investigator of lobbying and trusts, stood solidly on liberal side of the line despite fact that he had, at 37, been member of Ku Klux Klan. In the court Baptist Black was a novice in constitutional...
...winter sports season reopens this Thursday when the basketball team visits Providence to meet Joe Tebo and his hard-luck Bruin quintet. The annual Beanpot opens on Friday with the sextet opposing B.U. at 7 p.m. in the Garden. This game may decide the Crimson's future regarding national standings...