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Luck and accident have always played as big a part as pluck and perseverance in Daly's career. Born in South Africa of an American father and English mother, he studied medicine at Boston College and became a radio announcer in 1937 because, he explains, "a good friend of a friend of mine happened to be dating the secretary of an NBC sales manager in Washington." His success on What's My Line? won him another moderator's post in July with a CBS summer replacement quiz show called It's News to Me. Last week...
...year-old lay leader of the Catholics in his village, was ordered to pluck out his own beard strand by strand. When this process seemed too slow, his torturers burned it off, searing his face with a torch. After severe beatings, "the judge asked Li: 'Will you still be a Christian and act as head of the community?' He answered simply: 'As long as I breathe.' The judge gestured to a soldier near by, and Li Wan-fu was shot through the head...
Rene Vielman is extraordinarily small for a breaststroker. This handicap, coupled with pluck which enables him to finish up with a rush long after every spectator is sure he has burned himself out, has made him the favorite of his teammates. It would be absurd to expect him to reach the Yale meet undefeated, but neither Ulen nor Vielman's teammates would be surprised...
...Yeah, Man." In three years, the workers became a part of almost every boy's life-Jerry, who once had to be talked out of blowing up the Sabers with a hand grenade; Pluck, who smoked reefers ("When you are high you can look across the way, which is littered with garbage cans, and everything looks fine"); and Wilfred the truant ("If I could go regular-like for a week, then I'd go all the time, but I just can't go that week...
...Pluck from your nostrils every hair...