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...reign of Mary Tudor, an official barge swept up to the landing stage of the Tower of London. Out stepped 20-year-old Elizabeth, Queen Mary's red-haired half-sister, who had just been arrested on suspicion of treason. At sight of the terrible Tower, where her luckless mother, Queen Anne Boleyn, had lost her head, the Lady Elizabeth's legs sank under her, and she fell weeping on the wet stones. Then she pulled herself together and walked into the prison with her head held high...
Light in the Darkness. There Nimitz found, in his own concise summation, "too many people and too much pessimism." His attitude toward his luckless predecessor, Kimmel, was that of a professional who sees a brother officer under the lash of defeat: "There, but for the grace...
...fact remains that wherever the robot bomb does hit, it does as much damage to any luckless person, building or section of landscape as though the projectile had been precision-aimed...
Fish Story. In Montgomery, Ala., Fisherman Gene Handy was disgustedly reeling in his plug after several luckless hours when a big-mouthed bass suddenly jumped for the plug, missed, landed squarely in the boat. The bass weighed 10 lb., 4 oz., said Fisherman Handy...
Balkans. The Germans retook most of the Dalmatian coast from Yugoslav guerrillas. The Germans also regained Leros (and claimed Samos) from luckless, ill-supported British soldiers who attacked Hitler's Aegean outworks last month, never had a chance to keep them...