Word: luck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yardley has never forgotten the man who dealt out that helping hand. "I have consistently won at poker all my life," says he in The Education of a Poker Player (Simon & Schuster: $3.95). "I do not believe in luck-only in the immutable law of averages." So skilled did Yardley become in the mathematics of that immutable law that he was able to make his prowess pay off in other fields. He organized a U.S. cryptographic bureau during World War I, won a Distinguished Service Medal for breaking the Japanese diplomatic code, and told about it after...
Pinter s Error. Luck saved them from bankruptcy. First, a printer's error boosted the price on the cover to 60?. Then after the first printing of 5,000 copies had sold out early last fall (mainly in Huntsville), they printed 15,000 more barely got them on the stands in twelve cities when the Russians launched Sputnik I on Oct. 4. Within days, 95% of the copies were gone. Says Editor Isbell: "The Russians put us in business...
...fight with them, so I give it to him.") The New York Herald Tribune's Jesse Abramson, a ringside veteran, insisted that the judges who finally overruled Referee Sikora were blinder than Basilio. The punch that closed Carmen's eye, wrote Abramson, was an "incredible piece of luck...
Under the Wire. Good luck marked the U.S. Pavilion from the start. The World's Fair U.S. Commissioner-General Howard S. Cullman credits Stone's early planning, even before a final budget figure was available, with giving the U.S. the fast start that "was the difference between make or break." Belgium's top contractor, Emile Blaton. made the project his particular baby. As a result, the U.S. Pavilion, one of the last to get started in Brussels, is among the first to be completed. Even more remarkable is the fact that Architect Stone stayed within...
...young adventurer hires on as a lift boy in a posh hotel. And who turns up? The lady of the jewel case, of course. It develops that her husband owns "the biggest pâté factory in Strasbourg," and the wife lives high on the goose. More luck, and Felix manipulates it skillfully. The lady tears the uniform off him one evening, flings him into bed. Later she forces him to steal the rest of her jewels while she cries: "Oh, how delightfully you debase...