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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 20, 1941 | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

Well, well! I see that the Brown Bomber, otherwise known as the Dark Destroyer (Joe Louis to you) did it at last. Did what? Broke that hoodoo. What hoodoo? Why, that hoodoo that seems to settle firmly on the shoulders (or withers, in case of a horse) of luminaries in the sports world who get their pictures on TIME'S front cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 20, 1941 | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...Louis on the cover before his fight with Nova. I heard someone talking on the radio, with tears in his voice, about the terrible hoodoo that had descended on this fine, clean fighter. And what happens ? As if nothing in the world was bothering him, Joe steps out and knocks Nova twitching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 20, 1941 | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...demand that he "stand aside" while other new House members take their oaths, then force his Democratic colleagues to defend him. If he is unseated he will not be vastly surprised. Of being tough Hamtramck's mayor he long ago said: "There's a hoodoo connected with this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Hellzapoppin | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Stretching across the fairway at "Grumley's," famed 16th and hoodoo hole of the windy Southporty & Ainsdale course in Lancashire, is a 30-ft. sand bunker faced with black railroad ties. The barrier must be cleared on the second shot or the approach to the green is blind. At Grumley's bunker last week non-playing Captain Hagen's two daring selections came to the test. In the morning round, Nelson & Dudley, trailing at the 16th, rallied to clear the bunker for a birdie 4. They returned to Grumley's in the afternoon 3 up. Golfer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Victory at Grumley's | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

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