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...play a parlor game there on Thursday nights. Then he flies back to New York to spend four hours chatting on NBC-Radio. For these jmd similar radio-TV chores, Master of Ceremonies Cullen earns about $150,000 a year. He says wonderingly: "I guess I'm the luckiest guy in the world...
...Consumers. While McKay's decision made the last-ditch defenders of public power unhappy, it was good news for the small domestic and rural customers of the private utilities. Since the state keeps a close control on utility rates, they will reap the major benefits from cheaper power. Luckiest of all are the people in McKay's native Portland, Ore. They are supplied by the Portland General Electric Co., which counts on Bonneville for almost three-fourths of its power needs. Last year, when water was low and less power was generated, P.G.E. had to buy costlier steam...
...Worsham. needing a birdie on the final 410-yd., par4 hole to tie Virginia's Chandler Harper, smashed out a 270-yd. drive. He then calmly took a wedge, plopped the ball onto the green and into the hole for an eagle 2. Jubilantly aghast, Worsham murmured: "The luckiest shot I ever had." Lucky or not, it was worth $25,000 to Lew Worsham, whose 72-hole score was 278 v. Harper...
Rain, Snow, Sleet ... In the Monte Carlo Rally (TIME, Feb. 11), the race is not to the swiftest but to the surest and luckiest. The 404 entries from 20 nations took off from such widely scattered points as Stockholm, Lisbon, Glasgow and Palermo. The drivers ran into all sorts of hazards: rain, snow, sleet, fog, mechanical breakdowns, head-on crashes. In addition, eagle-eyed dockers at various points ticked off the cars as they passed, making sure that none exceeded the 65-kilometer-per-hour (40 m.p.h.) speed limit. A minute's delay here, too much speed there...
Died. Alvin ("Shipwreck") Kelly, sixtyish, self-styled "Luckiest Fool in the World," who enjoyed a brief celebrity in the frivolous '20s by sitting for days on a 13-inch disk atop flagpoles (his record: 49 days and one hour on a pole on Atlantic City's Steel Pier in 1930); of a heart attack, while walking on a sidewalk with a relief check in his pocket and a scrapbook of old press clippings under his arm; in Manhattan...