Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the stands, it seemed as if the Stahlen were working only one play, and using it over and over. Mariaschin would take the ball out, feed it to Champion, who would give it to Gray or Desci waiting in the bucket. From there it was pot luck, as the pivot man fed the ball to his forwards coming in for the layup. On these shots the Varsity had a deadly average of 100 percent: they missed them...
With no wartime blackouts to worry about, hard-luck Gulfstream Park (plagued for five years by bankruptcy and anti-racing bans) raised its purse ante 100%. For its opening-day Broward Handicap last week, Gulfstream drew too many horses (enough to run in two divisions), twice the attendance (20,216) it drew on commencement day last year. The mutuel handle-with $805,866 jammed through the machines-was up almost...
...took days to find his way around. But the vastness of the flight deck eased the operations of Commander John T. ("Tommy") Blackburn's Air Group 74; pilots even approved the emery-paper landing surface on the steel deck. The 5-inch, .54-caliber guns had beginners' luck and brought down a good bag of towed sleeves and radio-controlled drone target planes. Eventually, all departments would function as smoothly. But it would take time and a stable complement...
...which Heywood Broun once asked to be kept going till 10 a.m., "so I can make my picket line," and which has been known to run for 33 hours,* is for Grouse "the most refreshing mental bath I can get." The club has a West Coast "branch," and "with luck and a plane," say Lindsay & Grouse, "we can make both games the same week...
...luck takes the angular form of Lauren Bacall, who is cast as a British coal tycoon's bored daughter. It is unhappy casting. The Bacall publicity has plainly pushed the young woman too far too fast. Neither a great beauty nor a great actress, her voice and facial expressions, both limited, soon grow monotonous. She is not even the interesting personality which careful direction made of her in To Have and Have...