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Hunters in such famed areas as the Chesapeake Bay, Arkansas's White River bottoms and Suynsun Marshes in California will have good shooting this year-if they can find anything to shoot with. Luckiest hunters of all are U.S. Air Forces pilots along the Alaska Military Highway. To keep their eyes in by skeet shooting, they are well supplied with shells. By switching from clay pigeons to live ducks they will be saving their own skins: duck feathers are used in flying suits...
When the Chennault group was incorporated into the U.S. Army, Scott was made its C.O. "I wiped the tears from my eyes and looked out on an improving world. I could hear the birds singing again, and people were laughing; I knew I was the luckiest man in all the world." He celebrated with a farewell bombing, climbed through the clouds reciting poetry in time with the engine. "To the verses of 'Gunga Din' I dropped my first bomb ... on the docks of Homalin. ... I finished my ammunition by strafing the main street of [Lashio] . . . saw two plate...
...Count Fleet goes on to win the Kentucky Derby next week he will make John Hertz one of the world's luckiest turfmen. A little over a year ago, Hertz was willing to sell the son of Reigh Count for $4,500. The colt's conformation was faulty: his weight and power had grown in front instead of behind, where experts insist it should be. His forelegs were slightly knock-kneed and he ran with his head held high like a show horse. He seemed destined to be no greater than his mother, a commonplace selling plater named...
...before she knew precisely what had happened she was on stage in Manhattan's NBC studio participating in Truth or Consequences. "How many Kings of England possessed the name Henry?" asked the M.C. Mrs. Mullane guessed five because it was her lucky number. It was the luckiest use she had ever made...
...court he had also begun to interest himself in politics. Cripps joined the Labor Party and, in 1930, came "the luckiest break" of his political life. Ramsay MacDonald's Solicitor General resigned because of illness; Cripps was appointed, in his place and automatically knighted by the King. Conservative Prime Minister-to-be Stanley Baldwin remarked: "Here comes a future Prime Minister...