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Friends also remember Gilligan’s lighter side, recalling him as a practical joker with a particular affinity for high-jinx...
Jack Burcham survived for only ten days with his implant last April, but, says his wife Jinx, the experience seemed "a long, long terrible nightmare." Margaret Schroeder, enduring the longest bedside vigil of all, has spent months at a time in Louisville, 100 miles from her home. Last September she became so exhausted that she was hospitalized. She rarely gives interviews but told Annas that "she felt she was a prisoner of the artificial heart." Concern about their mother has added to the stress on the six Schroeder children. "The only thing worse than having one parent in the hospital...
...told him, kind of joking around, that I’ve pitched my two worst games of the season when he was there,” Herrmann said, smiling. “I told him he’s a jinx, but that it’s okay, because I’d rather have him here and pitch crappy than pitch good without him here...
...reluctant to talk about [the assist to turnover ratio] because I don’t want to jinx the whole thing,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “It’s good to see the guys play better offensive basketball, and get each other good shots...
...better [assist-to-turnover ratios],” Sullivan said. “I was reluctant to talk about it because I didn’t want to jinx the whole thing, and I’m reluctant to talk about it with the players as well...