Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first to admit that there will be cagier seamen than he in the competition even though he's been handling the tiller according to one Nantucket legend since the tender age of six. But "there's only so much skill in handling a boat, and from there Lady Luck takes over," he says...
...which brought Myles Huntington and Cliff Crosby in--and one in the fifth (incurred when Chip Gannon ran all the way from second on a long Coulson blast to right field) looked like enough until the seventh inning. Then Godin gave out, and Roche came in to try his luck on the mound. Princeton proceeded to score three runs, but Roche remained in the lineup in the ninth just long enough to drive the clinching runs across...
...different was Earl Sande, idol of the '20s, who saved his money and bought race horses. This season he had hard luck: though he owns twelve horses he has won only one race so far. Last week, he was brought up before the racing stewards after a saliva test showed that his one winner had been given a caffeine stimu lant. He was suspended from racing for 60 days. ? Carolyn A., a filly named for her, won last week's $25,000 Firenze Handicap at Jamaica. ** Plus the usual tip, which is 10% of the purse. *Apprentice jockey...
...Racetrack. Young Mattos Rodríguez sold La Cumparsita to a Buenos Aires publisher for 20 gold pesos, lost them at the races next day, later had to pay the money back when his contract with the publisher was voided because he was a minor. That was luck in disguise. In the years that followed, he made enough from La Cumparsita-and other tangos-to stake him to a comfortable life in Paris and free-spending afternoons at many a racetrack...
Last week, when their tiny Screen Plays, Inc. released its million-dollar movie, So This Is New York, Hollywood had another word for it: luck. It was that-and considerably more...