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...Blaik, the Army coach, was one of them. Before the Notre Dame game, Blaik told TIME'S Sport Editor: "Frankly, the thing I'm really worried about is the TIME cover jinx...
...because they were champions, or near champions, and because they were just about to compete in some big event. Some won, as they were expected to, and there was very little hullabaloo about it. But those who lost made big news - and helped nourish the legend of the TIME "jinx." Some examples...
...baseball's best hitter, Waterloo is spelled Chicago. Tommy Holmes has found it hard to buy a hit at Wrigley Field all season, and last week his jinx park stopped him again-after he had hit safely in 37 straight games to bust Rogers Hornsby's modern National League record of 33. (Anyhow, the Boston Braves's roly-poly, 180-lb. right fielder had modestly figured Wee Willie Keeler's ancient 44-game mark as his goal, and had not seriously hoped that his luck would hang around until he caught Joe DiMaggio's American...
Early in the week, Baltimore began to sweat and shake with its annual seven-day fever over a horse race. Despite a change in jockeys and a jinx, the horse causing the highest rise in temperatures was Hoop Jr., a satchel-headed bay that won an easy six-length triumph at Louisville. There was no standout challenger until midweek, when Pavot turned in a sensational 1:59⅓workout (for a mile and three-sixteenths). By Saturday, 30,000 fans who shoved into Pimlico for the Preakness had just about forgotten that there were seven other entries...
...Married. Jinx Falkenburg, 26, alluring camera target whose magazine-cover face & figure sped her up the model-to-movies path (Cover Girl); and A.A.F. Lieut...