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...which makes Minnesota's Tony Oliva, 25, just about the luckiest hitter in baseball-and close to the best. In 1964, as a baby-faced Cuban farm lad who spoke practically no English ("Tony talks so bad," cracked Fellow Cuban Zoilo Versalles, the Twins' shortstop, "that he even says 'ain't' in Spanish"). Outfielder Oliva hit 32 home runs and batted .323-thus becoming the first rookie ever to win the American League's batting championship. Last year, playing with a bad knee and a painfully bruised hand, he drove in 98 runs...
With a little bit of luck, Groovy Kind will pay back Donnie's investment, and perhaps make a few bucks for the authors. With a lot of luck, they might join the seven Kirshner teams earning big money. The luckiest team right now is Barry Mann, 26, and his wife Cynthia Weil, 24, who wrote Soul and Inspiration as well as Kicks (No. 10 on the Hot 100) and Magic Town (No. 32); the Manns have just signed a five-year $1,000,000 contract with Kirshner...
...luckiest one is U.S. Special Forces Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler. At 25, he has come away from Viet Nam not only with his skin but with a clutch of ballads that have made him famous and rich. His recording of The Ballad of the Green Berets, only three months old, has sold more than 2,000,000 copies, and a subsequently released twelve-tune album has already leaped to the top of the bestselling LP lists. For this, Sergeant Sadler has earned $250,000 so far this year, and the demand for personal appearances is so great that the Army...
...really useful. Mod sex appeal is dragged in by Shirley Eaton, fisticuffs by Hugh O'Brian. And, unlikely as it seems, there is Teen Idol Fabian, quaffing a lethal dose of poison immediately after singing a song. Fabian is the first of Indians' victims, and the luckiest. For him, the end comes quickly...
Alexander Feodorovich Kerensky is one of the most famous forgotten men of modern times. By history's stern reckoning, he is also one of the luckiest -and one of the unluckiest. Lucky, because 48 years ago this week he escaped with his life after Lenin's Bolsheviks deposed him as the first Prime Minister of the Russian Revolution; unlucky, because for nearly half a century he has been the archetype of all political exiles: stateless, often dependent on the hospitality of friends, sometimes hounded by enemies and attacked by onetime followers, a forlorn wanderer between London, Paris...