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...milling throngs that materialized at every vice presidential stop kept all but a handful of newsmen beyond earshot; in desperation the press corps resorted to a revolving pool system, generously shared notes and observations in a sort of socialized journalism. Leggy ex-Model Jinx Falkenburg, who came along as a correspondent accredited to Long Island's Newsday, reached Novosibirsk before her luggage, bravely showed up at the ballet theater in panties and a raincoat securely belted to hide the absence of skirt...
...Jinx. Joylessness begins at home for Alfred Eaton in the turn-of-the-century Pennsylvania town of Port Johnson. Alfred's brother is the apple of Papa Samuel Eaton's eye, and poor Alfred is the apple core. When the brother dies at 14, Alfred is cut off without a pennyworth of love by the steelmaster millionaire father. With old-fashioned pre-Freudian directness. Author O'Hara allows this rebuff to clue the pattern of Alfred Eaton's life. From then on, he is destined to confer his love rather than give it, to make contact...
Today's game should also be a close one, with the Crimson trying to snap the three year jinx, and the Bruins attempting to make it four straight over Harvard...
Yovicsin's first year has been a remarkable one. He survived the tireless battery of questions from the local press, the scepticism of many, a discouraging wave of injuries which resulted in something of a "jinx" year for the football team, and the demands made from both the Ivy Towers and the clubrooms. Yet he can still smile shyly from behind his desk in the Indoor Athletic Building and say honestly, "I'm certainly looking forward to next year...
First off, onto the scene hove Tex McCrary, husband of sometime Actress-Model Jinx Falkenburg, and a money-making operator who shrewdly combines his TV-radio work with his publicity business. Tex already had sent one of his vice presidents, William Safire, to Boston for a three-hour interview with Goldfine to get "the feel" of his personality. In Washington, McCrary allowed that as an old Sherman Adams friend he had come at the beck of Lawyer Robb to help Goldfine on a basis of "no expenses, no fee - for free...