Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sugar" Ray Robinson is a miniature Joe Louis: nobody wants to fight him either. The big difference between Sugar Ray and Joe-besides 60 pounds-is that Joe is a champ. But last week, Sugar Ray, the hard-luck guy of boxing, was all set to get a champion's chance...
...greying, blue-eyed Producer Hellinger is noted for whopping charitable donations and extravagant tipping ($15 to captains, $10 to waiters, up to $5 to busboys, with an extra $1 each for winning smiles). Reputed to be a soft touch for any & all hard-luck stories, he favors midnight blue shirts with white silk ties, drives a black Lincoln limousine equipped with siren, white bearskin rug, New York license plate (MH 1) and bulletproof glass (gift of a former gangster acquaintance). Hollywood also reveres Hellinger for his seemingly inexhaustible stock of excellent liquor, his fondness for intricate practical jokes...
Eddie Cantor, Joel McCrea and Comedienne Joan Davis had perfectly ripping luck, publicity-wise. They happened to be in a Hollywood café when a couple of hoods trotted in to beat up a gambler. One of the visitors kept the glowing celebrities at bay with a rod while the other gave the gambler ten deep cuts on the head with a blackjack...
Smithson died in 1829; his nephew died childless in 1835. The U.S. got the money ($508,318.46 in gold sovereigns), and finally in 1846 set up the Institution. The bequest was large for those days, and with better luck or backing, the Smithsonian might have become the nation's scientific center. But it got no heavy support from the Government or anyone else. For the current fiscal year the Government appropriated $1,452,512 and most of this was earmarked for nonscientific custodial work...
...Hard-luck man of the meet is Don Felt of Lowell. Felt rowed in the novice singles group and entered the third heat for that group on Tuesday. His heat started slow, with Bill Homans pulling away to a two-length lead, but Felt settled down to a long powerful stroke and as they approached the first bridge he was rapidly gaining on Homans...