Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...luck would have it, this week's pictures are poor. Like all of its predecessors, the "Big Broadcast," 1938 model, is a conglomeration of music, humor and specialty acts strung together by the merest phantom of a story. Hollywood's one and only William Clark Fields is sometimes funny but more often clumsy and silly as he struts about barking wise cracks and chewing his large cigar. At his best in a very unconventional game of golf, he provides the film with a few good moments; but when he is gone, there is little left. To be sure, here...
...story told to properly dumbfounded reporters in Panama City, he stayed seven months with the primitive Indians in the Darien back country, then pushed on through Central America. Except for being robbed once, his luck held. By truck and Shank's mare he reached La Libertad. There he stowed away on a freighter bound for Vancouver. Seven days later he staggered out of the hold, walked unmolested down the gangplank at San Pedro. When he asked where the car tracks went, a workman said: "To Los Angeles, you done...
...marketing. Foremost among the members who thought that Farmers National should be brought to an end was William Horn, a farmer from Ohio who was just as bald as Clarence Huff. Last year Farmer Horn quietly replaced Farmer Huff as president. And last September Farmers National had the bad luck to be short in the market when there was a squeeze in corn (TIME, Oct. 4). Farmers National paid through the nose to cover its short commitments. So the decision of President Horn and his stockholders last week seemed to be the best way out of a distasteful situation...
Alexander Northrop disappointed expectations in the half mile. He gained sixth place and his time of 2:08 is the poorest he has done for a long time. Rob Haydock suffered even worse luck in the high jump. Though the Harvard record holder of over 6 ft. 3 in., Haydock barely cleared 6 ft. Saturday...
...Hospital after two blood transfusions from persons who had recovered from the disease. Source of her infection, she thought, was not louse, not flea, but a rabbit's foot which her loving husband had bought for her in Denver, Colo, and which she had often stroked for good luck...