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...League's Stanley Cup playoffs in 1975, a scant three years after starting from scratch as an expansion team, hockey insiders dubbed the strong young squad "the team of the future." Fans all over Long Island sat back to await the glories sure to come. But for the luckless New Yorkers, the future was always in the future...
Dartmouth avenged Harvard's loss to Yale, trouncing the Elis by 20 points to capture first place in the tournament. Dartmouth was the predicted favorite, and Yale's second place finish was no surprise, but plucky sixth-seeded Princeton took everyone by surprise, especially the luckless hoopsters...
Sirica's unorthodox background probably helped him deal with the nation's unprecedented crisis. The son of a luckless Italian immigrant, he confesses that he sometimes lived beyond the law. Hired as a mechanic's helper in Washington, D.C., the pudgy 14-year-old discovered a way to make his job easier. Instead of completely cleaning out grease caps on the automobiles of 1918, he merely scraped off the top layer of old grease and applied a little new. Irate owners complained that their cars still squeaked. Before he could be fired, Sirica quit...
...opening round of the ECAC Division One hockey play-offs, and first-place Boston University is hosting some luckless eight-place straggler, in this case Vermont. That's normal. It's late in the second period in that game, and the score is 3-0. That's also normal. What's not normal is that the Catamounts are in the lead, and the Terriers and their fans are getting desperate...
...John Luckless, alias Clifford Irving and Herbert Burkholz; Summit 250 pages...