Word: jinx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wilbur Shaw made the grade: he got a car to drive on the big brick oval at Indianapolis. It was a rebuilt Miller, 10 to 12 m.p.h. slower than most other cars in the race, and it was something of a jinx. In it, famed Jimmy Murphy, winner of the Indianapolis in 1922, had driven to his death at Syracuse, N.Y., three years before. To Wilbur Shaw the old Miller was just another car, and the cocky, mustachioed little hell-raiser drove it home in fourth place...
Damn Yankees is less perfectly sustained than The Pajama Game; it slows down in places, or to keep fast, turns choppy. And it may disappoint people who find baseball a bore. For all others, however, the long jinx on baseball as a stage theme has been broken at last by the high jinks of a good, gay show...
...attempts at guessing the market by studying the thickness of the moss on trees, the number of lemmings, postal receipts in Milwaukee and the activity of sunspots" add that old reliable indicator-TIME'S jinx...
Carol Fox and Lawrence V. Kelly, both in their 20s, were determined to break the jinx which has blighted Chicago opera ever since Sam Insull's gilt-edged company folded in 1932. They formed a new company called the Lyric Theater, got free use of the old costumes and scenery, scrounged funds. Says Soprano Callas, whose fee is a strictly guarded secret: "I liked the way they did things. Helping to do opera in Chicago gives me so much more pleasure than singing in the old. stuffy opera houses. Of course I am well paid. Why shouldn...
...with Truman, or do we go ahead with Ike?" Carroll accepted Ike as the issue, has attacked the Administration's farm, reclamation and rural electrification policies with considerable effect. With the help he can expect to get from Big Ed Johnson, who is a shoo-in for governor, Jinx Carroll should live up to his nickname as far as Allott is concerned...