Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie for Paramount." Paramount is making a picture with the background of West Point, tentatively entitled The Long Grey Line, but Blanchard and Davis aren't in it. I believe they are in Hollywood working for another producer. They're good guys and we wish them luck...
American Novels (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Bret Harte's The Luck of Roaring Camp...
When C's start running to D's and the little girl is busy every night, drop over to the room of Michael Rothenberg '49 and try some luck at breaking the better half of a wishbone with him. He's got 350 of them in what he calls "the largest collection in the world" draped over his Eliot House fireplace...
...basis of Bowerman's selection was the space allotted in the 1936 edition of the Dictionary of American Biography: every biography that rated 1½ pages or more was selected in the first drawing. Then, for reasons good & sufficient to Author Bowerman-such as eminence due to sheer luck; traitors and criminals-some 210 names were given the heave ho (samples: William "Boss" Tweed, Carrie Nation, Daniel Boone, Pocahontas). Enough also-rans (1½ pages in the D.A.B.) were then added to bring the list to an even thousand. The finalists include 973 men (examples: George and Booker...
...fortunes of the top Ford officials depended on Ford's ability to make and sell a tractor of its own. Cut off by Ford, Harry Ferguson had managed to set up a manufacturing arrangement in England with Standard Motor Co. But in the U.S. he had no such luck. After shopping around, Roger Kyes, president of Ferguson, Inc., bought a surplus war plant in Cleveland and talked of floating $8,000,000 in stock and making Ferguson tractors...