Word: jinx
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jinx Falkenburg, introduced as "the girl with the big spread in Life," was the feature attraction, and made the affair a minor epic of frustration when she failed to get kissed, although it was a touch-and-go proposition several times during her time in the spotlight...
Aside from Jinx, the features of the program were the Jones Brothers, Beatrice Kay, Arthur Blake, and Ann White. The Jones Brothers were the first outside entertainers on the program, after Oliver D. Filley, Jr., chairman of the Jubilee Committee, had filled in with piano playing, and Lieutenant F. T. Donahue and Ensign Gus Zitrides of the Navy had given the only serious talks of the evening...
...Jinx Enters...
Then came Beatrice Kay singing the songs of the "Gay Nineties" and then another Filley-filled lapse. Then came Jinx...
...When Jinx left, there was a mad stampede toward the Common Room and beer. One table and innumerable spectators were trampled in the dust. One intelligent Yardling came fortified with peach brandy; while about 25 others joined in kidapping a whole keg of brew...