Word: jinx
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the Classic has always been a jinx for champion three-year-olds (it was for Whirlaway, Johnstown, Bimelech and Twenty Grand) the finally convinced bettors made Assault a 7-to-10 favorite for last week's 18th running of the mile-and-a-quarter stakes. The only real point to the race seemed to be whether he was a great horse, or only a good one in a bad year. Assault's Trainer Max Hirsch wondered whether the other horses were good enough to give Assault a race...
...Jinx Falkenburg, cover girl turned actress, and now Mrs. John R. ("Tex") McCrary, expecting "any day in July," swore to do right by her offspring. "If it's a girl I'll call it Capri," said she. "Anyway, I won't use a name like Jinx...
...loose and lovely charmer who chucks a saloonkeeper for a whirlwind jockey called Little Augie (Harold Nicholas). The saloonkeeper gets plugged by a discarded flame, but thinking that Augie fired the shot, puts a dying-breath curse on him. Augie's luck changes and, hoping to lift the jinx, Delia leaves him. But his luck soon returns, and so does the lady...
There was another thing Tex McCrary didn't want: to be known merely as beauteous Jinx Falkenburg's husband. Last week he fixed that one too, by getting Columbia Pictures to release Jinx from her movie contract. (She had to promise to say nothing against Columbia in the two years her contract had to run. "That spiked an article she was doing for Collier's,'" said Tex. "She was going to say she'd graduated from the movies, where she had made straight...
...McCrarys now inhabit a guest house on the Jock Whitney estate at Manhasset, L.I. While Tex learns the magazine business, ex-Model Jinx will write, have a baby, "go into a play next season," play tennis again-in that order...