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These unfortunate, though timely, lapses from form may, or may not, constitute a "jinx." They are exceptions to the scores of sports figures who have found TIME'S cover no handicap (e.g., Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, Helen Wills, "Red" Grange, "Bobby" Jones, Mickey Cochrane, Yachtsman Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt, Bullfighter Juan Belmonte). It is worth noting, however, that TIME took no chances with its first sports cover: Horseman Stephan ("Laddie") Sanford (March 31, 1923). His horse (Sergeant Murphy) had already won the Grand National before the cover appeared...
...Accuse me, if you will, of endorsing backwardness, indifference and ignorance, but let me ask, in return, whether we were not much happier when our rages involved [such matters as] whether the referee gave Tunney a long count or Dempsey hit Jack Sharkey...
General Henry D. G. Crerar's Canadians were closing on Emden and Lieut. General Sir Miles C. Dempsey's British shelled Bremen and Hamburg at close range. The German Navy, however, did not fight. The admiral commanding the German North Sea naval district headquarters at Buxtehude surrendered to Dempsey's 11th Armored Division, which captured 500 women auxiliaries, in bell-bottomed trousers and coats of navy blue. The 11th also captured a circus, fully "operational" except for two wounded bears...
...other side of the world Harry Zinder datelined his cable "On the Road to Berlin" and told of a day's advance with General Dempsey's Second Army north of the Ruhr. "I was out in the open in a jeep in the middle of a convoy of specially armored tanks. Snipers were still present in all the villages we passed through, since nothing had been cleared. Through the night the Germans shelled our column with their 88s, and were registering as well with heavy caliber guns. But regardless of the guns the column pushed through...
...Monty" and Lieut. General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey (TIME, March 19) had wrought a precisely timed, superbly managed amphibious operation, but when it came the only surprise about it was the lack of immediate German resistance. Monty had taken his own good time to put the last bit of detail into its tidy place. The 51st Highland Division, which always leads a major Montgomery assault, the gallant 15th Scottish Division, the famed "Desert Rats" of the 7th Armored Division, all had rehearsed their roles...