Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still has no official title, but every day, after breakfast with her husband at 7, she shows up in her office, to work from 9 to noon receiving delegations of workers and trade unionists, hearing hard-luck stories and doling out advice and aid. A battery of secretaries is always on hand to take notes and handle a voluminous correspondence. In the afternoons, after a quick lunch with Perón, Evita is on her rounds again, visiting factories, addressing workers or distributing largess in the best bread-&-circus style...
...when everything starts to hum. Says Knight: "We don't know what causes that activity, but it applies to all life." The sun and the moon seem to have something to do with it. Fishermen and hunters who follow the solunar tables, says Knight, will have the best luck-other things being equal...
...bounced out. Snead's putt was short. Officials got out a tape measure: Snead's ball was 30½ inches away; Worsham's was 29½ inches. Without any green-reading, Sammy putted quickly. He missed the cup by two inches. Once again hard-luck Sammy Snead had blown the championship. Young Lew Worsham stepped up, calmly stroked his ball...
...Novelist Harry Sylvester, born in Brooklyn and schooled at Notre Dame, is considerably subtler as a storyteller, though hardly more graceful as a writer. Aloysius ("Moon") Gaffney is no anti-Semitic bullyboy like Tommy Gallagher, but a young Manhattan Irishman with a Fordham law degree and large horizons. With luck he will soon become an Assemblyman in Albany, and perhaps in time even sit in the big chair in New York's City Hall. He has brains, good looks, Irish wit and good Tammany connections...
...preview of what may turn out to be a musical revolution that has been brewing in New York for decades. Gian-Carlo Menotti, young Italian-born American composer, has written an opera, and unlike most of his fellow composers, he has had the right combination of skill and luck to get it produced-at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre along with his curtain-raiser, "The Telephone...