Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Newhouse's papers pay because his attention is riveted on the business side of newspapering. Alert for the smallest money-saving maneuver, quick to invest in new machinery when it promises to cut costs, he manages to make even sick papers pay?occasionally with a helping hand from luck. Shortly after selling the St. Louis Globe-Democrat to Newhouse in 1955, Publisher E. Lansing Ray died, leaving the paper?and the surprised Newhouse?$1,000,000 in life insurance...
...landlady, a Negro woman of about 70, is still reluctant to try her luck on the new apparatus. When I try to share my specialized knowledge with her she replies "Well, I still don't have the hang of it. I'll try it again when I'm alone. Sooner or later I'll catch...
...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...
Culligan's appointment was greeted with general good will. The New York Herald Tribune wished him luck in an editorial, and the Associated Press called him "dynamic and picturesque." Said his predecessor, ex-President Robert E. MacNeal: "Don't worry about me, worry about my company." But Culligan was not about to worry. His long-term $120,000-a- year contract is rich with fringe benefits and he pronounces himself ready to work for every penny. "One of the legendary things they say about me is this capacity for work I have," he said. "If I work...
...With luck and good will, Society Hill can provide a pattern for fine-arts allotments in FHA-financed projects across the country...