Word: jinx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National League pennant winner has repeated since 1944, but the Giants look good enough this year to break the jinx. The New Yorkers will play most of the season without three of last year's key men--Irvin, Mays, and Stanky--but their pitching is the best in the loop...
...Frank Carlson were out on the campaign trail. Television's Tex McCrary was roaming the mountains and valleys with a troop of entertainers, which included Tony Lavelli, onetime Yale basketball star (he shoots baskets at rallies), Maestro Fred Waring, Entertainers Les Paul & Mary Ford. Tex's wife, Jinx Falkenburg, was there ("as a wife & mother") to decorate the scene...
...Jinx Cleaves tallied a slightly tainted second-period goal to give the Tigers a three-point bulge. Attempting a passout from behind the Crimson net, the Tiger wing banged the disk off the back of goalie Brad Richardson's leg. The puck rolled softly across the goalmouth, and plopped inside the far post...
...jinx of Iraqi oil is an incredible series of political double-dealings. The British first tried to develop Iraqi oil before World War I, but the Germans cut in and both were stymied. They made a deal and were about to start work when the war interfered. In 1920, with the Germans ousted, the French insisted on getting into the act; then the Americans set up a clamor. Turkish Petroleum was renamed Iraq Petroleum and was divided between Britain, France, the U.S. and The Netherlands, with each holding 23.75%. The remaining 5% went appropriately to the wily old Armenian influence...
...Author Meets the Critics (Thurs. 10 p.m., Du Mont). Her out-of-hand panel consisted of Presidential Candidate Senator Robert A. Taft; his strong supporter, Hearst Columnist George Sokolsky; and Tex ("I Like Ike") McCrary, who is perhaps best known for his weekday husband & wife show with Jinx Falkenburg. They were met to discuss Taft's recent book, A Foreign Policy for Americans. The trouble started when McCrary charged that Taft "has been careless with the truth in this book. He has even deliberately distorted the truth...