Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pluck 6 Luck. If the career of the Mercury Theatre, which next week will be six months old, seems amazing, the career of Orson Welles, who this week is 23, is no less so. Were Welles's 23 years set forth in fiction form, any self-respecting critic would damn the story as too implausible for serious consideration...
...flagship "Philadelphia" taking President Roosevelt on a Caribbean cruise tonight steamed toward the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The cruiser was making 22 knots and was expected to reach Puerto Rican waters tomorrow night or Tuesday. Fishing there was excellent and the President looked forward to trying his luck...
...hour's train ride from Trondheim, in central Norway, is Hell, a tiny hamlet (pop. 1,465) which thrives on U. S. excursionists who have fun sending home Hell-marked postcards.† Situated on hilly ground, Hell (the Norwegian word for luck or slope) maintains two churches but no fire department, has cool summers, bitterly cold winters, sometimes freezes over completely. Last week mild-mannered, blue-eyed Lorentz Stenvig, mayor of Hell, arrived in Manhattan as the guest of publicity-wise Robert ("Believe It or Not") Ripley, gave the press a chance to make free use of naughty expressions...
...chance to play in the show, Willow Joe is sent off on a fantastic publicity stunt, a ten-day trip down the Mississippi on water shoes, playing a guitar. Unlike his half-dozen drowned predecessors, Willow Joe makes it. Then he lands in prison for shooting a man. His luck gets worse & worse. Then he becomes a hero in a big flood, is rewarded with a nice farm in the hills. But come summer, the Pennys start complaining- even the clock "ain't been ticking natural" -and sneak back happily to the storms, floods, fever, gyp salesmen, rousing revival...
...their truck because they were behind in their payments. When they were paid $235 (the agent owed them $400), they bought a load of lemons in Los Angeles, rushed them to Oakland where they sold them, during a temporary shortage that boosted the price, for $520. But, as their luck was looking up, a drunken driver smashed into the truck, nearly killed Paul. Driving alone, hauling pipe to the oil fields, dynamite to Sonora, Nick picked up a girl on the road. He got her a room in Los Angeles, but after driving the 400 miles from Los Angeles...