Word: jinx
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Engaged. Robert Falkenburg, 21, rangy, seventh-ranking U.S. tennist, brother of Jinx; and Lourdes Marink-Veiga Machado, 19, bright-eyed Brazilian beauty; in Manhattan...
...visit was a whirlwind. He spoke forcefully at Town Hall on "Whose Country Is This, Anyway?" He went to a party at the Wendell Willkie Memorial Building. He was interviewed by Tex McCrary & wife Jinx Falkenburg for their chatty-patty breakfast radio program. And for the climax he appeared on Information Please, where Willkie first budded into radio popularity. Mr. Arnall did not bud, he bloomed...
...started back in 1936, when he entered the National Intercollegiate championships in the first of three attempts at the crown. He was nosed out by Fred Haas of L.S.U., and met'a similar fate at the hands of two more Louisiana players in succeeding years. Barclay side-stepped this jinx long enough to defeat the famous Willie Turnesa in the 1937 event...
...Born. To Jinx Falkenburg, 27, radio & film actress (Two Latins from Manhattan Cover Girl), and John Reagan ("Tex") McCrary, 35, Horatio Algerish man-about-town, ex-chief editorial writer of Hearst's tabloid New York Daily Mirror, who stars with his wife on the radio program "Hi Jinx": their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Patrick. Weight...
...Crimson's final bid to break the B. U. jinx was in the sixth inning. Bob Feloney poked a hard line drive to the Terrier second sacker after Bill Weeks had walked. Crawford Hubbell walked, and then Bill Hamlen laced out a scorching double along the third base foul line scoring Weeks...