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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...
John Carroll, who still carries the childhood nickname of "Jinx," has been called the most predictable man in Colorado politics (Vice President Nixon last week gave his version of Carroll's predictability by describing him as a "left-winger"). Liberal Carroll has made up his longtime feud with Conservative Ed Johnson, thereby hurdling one of the main obstacles to his election...
...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...