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...granddad once told me that the luckiest day of his life was the day he met my grandmother. He just couldn't believe his eyes when he saw her, nor could he believe his luck when she agreed to go out with him. Imagine his joy when she agreed to marry him. It was a marriage that lasted more than 60 years...
Harris Wofford is the luckiest of incumbent U.S. Senators. He has the title and the perks that go with it, but he hasn't been around long enough to be tarred as a Washington insider -- a decided plus given the current political environment...
Cautionary tales abound of lottery winners whose bad investments lead them to bankruptcy, but most of America's luckiest people seem to keep their feet on the ground. The fact that they are paid in 20 annual taxable installments helps. (Annual payments also mean a much lower outlay by the lotteries.) Most winners stay in the same neighborhood, keep old friends and continue to look at price tags...
King Charles I of England had several court painters, not all equally lucky. Anthony van Dyck was the luckiest of all. But how could one envy, say, Richard Gibson? He was not only a miniaturist but a dwarf who at a court banquet had to skip from a pie and walk the length of the table bearing portraits of the King and Queen he had copied after Van Dyck on playing cards. It cannot have been fun to be this small, if distinct, talent, awaiting his cue in a dark pastry coffin. But to be Van Dyck himself? A different...
...Here were all these right-wing people adopting me, which made me even more unhappy, because I'm not a right-winger," he says. "I was the University president for 18 years. All but two of those years were just pure joy and happiness. I think I was the luckiest man that ever lived. I had a wonderful situation, friendly and supportive people--why should I feel sorry? But here were these people all feeling sorry...