Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trampled & Triumphant. This week Charles Laughton will join Bolger in a floppy London music-hall version of With a Little Bit of Luck, from My Fair Lady. Tipping a pixy toe at his audience, Bolger will also invite a nostalgic following to join him in the happy choruses of Once in Love with Amy, a great vaudeville song from his 1948 Broadway hit, Where's Charley...
...good luck, U.S. Navy radiomen had picked up a message about Oyama's plight. The Navy's headquarters at Yokosuka ordered the nearest submarine rescue ship, the Coucal, to Oyama's aid. The Coucal clipped four hours off her estimated time on a flank-speed, 500-mile run to Nagasaki. It took the sorely tried Oyama aboard, and doctors went with him into the sub's decompression chamber. He spent 38 hours there and breathed a mixture of helium and oxygen to help flush out the nitrogen. At the end, Oyama could stand shakily...
...other by a fresh-water canal. The front was unmarked. British paratroopers, dug in along the side of the road, saw the jeep coming and tried to wave it down. It roared by. Some 1,000 yards down the road, it shot past an Egyptian outpost. Then the luck that had held so miraculously through wars, riots and revolutions was suddenly shattered in a burst of Egyptian machine-gun fire. The jeep swung crazily off the road with the riddled bodies of the two photographers, the first press casualties of the war that had halted with a cease-fire even...
...feels that he is regaining more than he is giving up by taking the Australian position. He says, "I am neither a radio astronomer nor an optical astronomer, I am a Milky Way astronomer." Hearing of this, one of his students said, "We wish him luck, but we wish that only an astronomer were going. Actually he is a teacher and a friend...
Tech rooters knew it was more than luck last week when Fullback Dickie Mattison came through in the clutch with a fourth-quarter touchdown. Even when the going was rough, the worst worrywarts in the stands watched their coach calmly chewing on a blade of grass, relaxed and remembered their mildly irreverent motto: "In Dodd we trust...