Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Property. In Santa Fe, Thomas E. Ball reported to police the loss of his wallet, which contained his birth certificate, draft registration card, Social Security card, driver's license, gas ration book, sugar & coffee ration book, and one $2 bill which he carried as a good luck charm...
Buzz Wagner could lick the Japs: he had seven planes to his credit in aerial combat, and he had probably destroyed 50 more on the ground. But no man can lick fickle luck. Last week, in a solitary routine flight between Eglin Field, Fla. and Maxwell Field, Ala., Lieut. Colonel Boyd D. Wagner, at 26 the youngest officer of his rank, was missing. It was just about a year after the U.S. had first heard of Buzz Wagner...
...that both he and the orchestra had worked hard to get a unified performance, and the result, at least, in the piano part, is up to professional standards. The fact that Lee is here at Harvard and not in a conservatory or on the concert stage, is our good luck. If that sounds like exaggeration, go to the concert tonight...
...content with the aforementioned two chestnuts, "Mal" Holmes has thrown in a Sinfonia by Rosetti, and Bach's suite for orchestra in C Major. Rosetti, like Sweelinck and Buxtchude, had the bad luck of living and writing under the shadow of a greater contemporary, in his case, Mozart. His biography, where it is known at all, is full of the kind of unbelievable poverty and misery that dogged Mozart, and almost all of the 18th century German composers. In his day, every petty German prince had his court musicians and his "Kapellmeister" who trained the singers, trained and conducted...
When jovial, ruddy-faced, six-foot Donald Perell Smith suddenly quit as Vultee Aircraft general manager in 1938, airport wiseacres said his luck had run out, figured he was through with aviation for good. Yet last week Don Smith was playing his biggest role ever: president and spark plug of California's Interstate Aircraft & Engineering Corp.-a smart, fast-growing aviation concern which has produced a plane so good the whole aviation industry is buzzing...