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...eight innings yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field it looked as though the Crimson baseball Varsity had an outside chance to do the impossible and break their three-year Holy Cross jinx. Going into the ninth the Varsity led 3-1, but the favored Crusaders tied it up and then went on to win 6-3 in an extra frame...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: VARSITY NINE BOWS TO HOLY CROSS, 6 TO 3 | 5/27/1942 | See Source »

Cinemactress Jinx Falkenburg started a drive, Lips for Liberty, at Columbia University, to promote the sale of war stamps. Her price to professors and students alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 18, 1942 | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...Jinx Enters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1500 Yardlings Mob Union for Smoker as Rain Prevents Riot | 5/7/1942 | See Source »

Then came Beatrice Kay singing the songs of the "Gay Nineties" and then another Filley-filled lapse. Then came Jinx...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1500 Yardlings Mob Union for Smoker as Rain Prevents Riot | 5/7/1942 | See Source »

...When Jinx left, there was a mad stampede toward the Common Room and beer. One table and innumerable spectators were trampled in the dust. One intelligent Yardling came fortified with peach brandy; while about 25 others joined in kidapping a whole keg of brew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1500 Yardlings Mob Union for Smoker as Rain Prevents Riot | 5/7/1942 | See Source »

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