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...luck without losing their gains too fast to the horses or to other promoters become "heels," paying perhaps $10 a month for a cubicle on the third floor. The renting agent, Morty Ormont (French for Goldberg), knows a heel is out of business when his hat is gone. The luckiest of the heels move upstairs and become "tenants"; but sooner or later, tenants turn up in the lobby booths as Indians again. Some leading Jollity Building denizens...
...undefeated team is not always the strongest team. It might very well be the luckiest...
...Missing Heir? program (sponsored by Ironized Yeast and created by Lawyer James Waters and Adman Alfred Shebel), which for nearly two years has been dramatizing each week over CBS true tales of estranged souls whose deaths -and estates-were unknown to their presumptive heirs, last week turned up its luckiest missing heir so far: a quiet, 40-year-old, much-buffeted Chicagoan named Rawlins Phillips. His inheritance...
...morning; Germany had declared war on Russia. President Roosevelt in his second-floor study in the White House faced the strangest and perhaps the most momentous turn of World War II. It was something which he had not dared hope for. And it might turn out to be the luckiest military break for the U.S.-outside of an outright defeat for Germany in battle-that the President could have hoped...
...This snow storm is the luckiest break we could have," exclaimed Harvard's new ski coach, Bill Halsey, first year Architectural School student and graduate of Dartmouth last spring, in an interview in the locker room after yesterday's first cross-country practice. "I'm pleased and surprised at today's turnout; we'll have a fighting chance against Dartmouth this winter, but we have to work on the cross-country and jumping...