Word: jinx
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varsity crew, minus stroke Bill Curwen, left for Ithaca last night to try and break the Cornell jinx. In the fourteen years since Tom Bolles took up coaching here, Harvard has never beaten the Big Red on the waters of Lake Cayuga...
...lieutenant colonel (he jumped with paratroops into France) and ex-newsman (chief editorial writer of the New York tabloid Mirror), McCrary was confident that he could survive TV's headaches. He was also shrewd enough to know that he had a TV asset in his pretty brunette wife Jinx Falkenburg, onetime model and cinemactress, who shares his over-the-breakfast-table radio show...
...Virginia game started sunny, but the jinx brought rain before it ended. Bob Matson and Herb Mee scored for the varsity, Mee winning on a 15-foot putt on the twenty-first hole. Georgetown was another windy match, with Matson and Hubbell scoring the Crimson's points...
Harvard's jinx over Brown is not likely to be broken this afternoon when the Crimson wrestling team meets the Bruins in Brown's Marvel Gym. The freshman wrestlers start the proceedings...
Alben Berkley was going to spend his Christmas with the U.S. garrison in Berlin, as co-star of a cold-war U.S.O. troupe that included Bob Hope, Jinx Falkenburg, Irving Berlin, Air Secretary Stuart Symington, and half a dozen Rockettes. A Congressman for 35 years, Vice President-elect for eight weeks, Barkley was living up to his new responsibilities: "My time just isn't my own any more...