Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chalk players figured, only bad luck could beat Sir Victor Sassoon's swift colt Crepello in the 178th running of Britain's Derby Stakes at Epsom Downs. And for a change, a short-priced (6 to 4) Derby favorite got the breaks. After loafing along in the pack, Crepello found the right opening in the last quarter-mile, moved up with ease and won by a widening length and a half from Ballymoss...
Riffling through his sharply focused snapshot memories of some 80 greats and near greats, M.G.M. comes down to the finish line with a recent interview with Paris' rocketing young Bernard Buffet, who in the last decade has shot from abject poverty to Rolls-Royce status. Such luck was rare in the old days, M.G.M. recalls. Looking back over the past, he says: "What they call la belle epoque was the most hostile and hardest time that ever existed. They are always talking of the good old days. But in those days painters were starving. Nowadays a painter with...
From Essence to Existence. "I am an existentialist," Tillich is fond of telling people, and he writes: "Immanuel Kant once said that mathematics is the good luck of human reason. In the same way, one could say that existentialism is the good luck of Christian theology. It has helped to rediscover the classical Christian interpretation of human existence...
Slim (6 ft. 3 in., 160 Ibs.) Don Bowden had finally outpaced his luck. When he was a sophomore, a heel injury held him back; illness kept him from placing in the 1,500-meter run at the Olympics. Fortnight ago studies kept him from running with the four visiting four-minute milers in the Los Angeles Coliseum (TIME, June 3). But last week, he said, he knew he was ready. At 20, he sees no reason why he cannot eventually break John Landy's 3:58 world's record-but not this season. "I have very...
...only two pit stops in his light, low-slung Belond Exhaust Special. He had already made them, and he could not be sure whether his latest set of tires would last till the finish. He was less than a lap ahead of the second racer. Should he crowd his luck, or bet on the speed and skill of his pit crew...