Word: jinx
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside of the presidential palace, Miguelito is less filial, more dashing. When Hollywood starlets like Jinx Falkenburg and Jacqueline Dalya trip into town, he entertains them with gay parties, sends them perfume and jeweled trinkets...
...world's best golfer, the Los Angeles Open tourney was always a pesky stumbling block. Byron Nelson had never won it, actually finished out of the money (worse than 16th) five years ago. In his jinx tourney last week, played on the country's third toughest course, Perfectionist Nelson slipped on an early 18-inch putt, blamed wet turf, then rolled flawlessly home with a winning 284. Nelson's most likely challenger was not present: a hit-'em-a-mile amateur, Army Lieutenant Gary Middlecoff, who burned up the fairways while on furlough last fall...
...Blaik, the Army coach, was one of them. Before the Notre Dame game, Blaik told TIME'S Sport Editor: "Frankly, the thing I'm really worried about is the TIME cover jinx...
...because they were champions, or near champions, and because they were just about to compete in some big event. Some won, as they were expected to, and there was very little hullabaloo about it. But those who lost made big news - and helped nourish the legend of the TIME "jinx." Some examples...
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...