Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happy-go-lucky newsboy who hawks papers for the New York World, part of the sensationalistic "yellow press" of the 1890's. He and his fellow orphans and street kids scrape by on the pennies they make selling papers. Jack teams up with a pair of down-on-their-luck brothers, Davy (David Moscow) and the baby-faced Les (Luke Edwards) and teaches them the tricks of the trade. ("Headlines don't sell papers, newsies sell papers...
...just bad luck that Ashe underwent major surgery after the AIDS epidemic began but before tests to detect the virus in the blood supply became available in 1985. Since then, only 20 of the nation's more than 200,000 aids cases have come from transfusions of tested blood, while nearly 4,500 have been attributed to untested blood. Nowadays, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the chances of contracting the disease from a transfusion are 1 in 61,000. More people are killed by lightning. (See related story on page...
...brushed off with a curt, "This will respond to your letter and resume. At the present time we do not have a position appropriate for you. Good luck." Yeah, right...
...crushed. I read a 367-page biography about the man over Spring Break. I was prepared to use the power of The Crimson's name to produce the Arts Feature of the Year. No such luck. He simply does not do interviews. I shouldn't have been surprised...
...some luck Harvard freshman, tickets to this celebrated event came free courtesy of the Harvard Athletic Department, which doled out 120 tickets to students living in the West Yard as part of its "From Football to Fenway" promotion...