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...announced that he and Sinatra had founded an organization in Cooper's honor called GADIEP (Grand Association of the Descendants of Illiterate European Peasants). Said Cooper, legs stretching contentedly from the dais to the far side of the room: "If someone were to ask me am I the luckiest man in the world, the answer would...
...hazardous past, and his uncanny ability to emerge seemingly unscathed from crisis after crisis, no one could rule out the possibility that his three-stage rocket might yet reach its destination, i.e., peace in Algeria and cohesion in France. But if it succeed ed, it would be the luckiest gamble of a career founded on audacious gambles...
Seizing on Buie as a good omen, Knox's crew last week invited him to join their ship. He was, after all, the luckiest swab-by in Uncle Sam's Navy...
...Allied soldier from General Eisenhower to Pvt. Schultz knew it. but D-day's luckiest augury was a pair of women's grey suede shoes, size 5½. They nestled in the command car of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel as he sped away from his Normandy headquarters on the morning of June 4, 1944, D-minus-two. Rommel, charged with throwing back any invasion attempt, planned to ask Hitler for reinforcements during his visit to Germany, but something more personal sent him on his trip. June 6 was his wife's birthday, and the Desert Fox planned...
Seven-thirty that Saturday evening and the entire class, bathed, brushed, shined, combed, and shivering, hurries through the dark night and biting wind across the campus to Prospect Street, where the grounds of sixteen plush clubhouses--and the not-so-plush Prospect Cooperative Club--stretch before them. The luckiest ones have received several bids, and join one of the big five...