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...Born. To Jinx Falkenburg, 27, radio & film actress (Two Latins from Manhattan Cover Girl), and John Reagan ("Tex") McCrary, 35, Horatio Algerish man-about-town, ex-chief editorial writer of Hearst's tabloid New York Daily Mirror, who stars with his wife on the radio program "Hi Jinx": their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Patrick. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 12, 1946 | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...Crimson's final bid to break the B. U. jinx was in the sixth inning. Bob Feloney poked a hard line drive to the Terrier second sacker after Bill Weeks had walked. Crawford Hubbell walked, and then Bill Hamlen laced out a scorching double along the third base foul line scoring Weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B. U. Trounces Crimson, 10-6, for Third Win | 8/6/1946 | See Source »

Although the Classic has always been a jinx for champion three-year-olds (it was for Whirlaway, Johnstown, Bimelech and Twenty Grand) the finally convinced bettors made Assault a 7-to-10 favorite for last week's 18th running of the mile-and-a-quarter stakes. The only real point to the race seemed to be whether he was a great horse, or only a good one in a bad year. Assault's Trainer Max Hirsch wondered whether the other horses were good enough to give Assault a race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Classic Example | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...Jinx Falkenburg, cover girl turned actress, and now Mrs. John R. ("Tex") McCrary, expecting "any day in July," swore to do right by her offspring. "If it's a girl I'll call it Capri," said she. "Anyway, I won't use a name like Jinx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Inklings | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...loose and lovely charmer who chucks a saloonkeeper for a whirlwind jockey called Little Augie (Harold Nicholas). The saloonkeeper gets plugged by a discarded flame, but thinking that Augie fired the shot, puts a dying-breath curse on him. Augie's luck changes and, hoping to lift the jinx, Delia leaves him. But his luck soon returns, and so does the lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical Play in Manhattan, Apr. 8, 1946 | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

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