Word: jinxed
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...ogle-eyed jinx that persists in shadowing Harvard football captains finally came home to roost at Soldiers Field yesterday when it was learned that Joe Gardella who sparked the team throughout 60 minutes of the rain-soaked content Saturday would be lost to the team for the Penn struggle at Philadelphia this week...
...great Queen Isabella. For years an international art dealer, Benjamin Benguiat, had owned the throne, refused to sell it even for $25,000. But when Benguiat went bankrupt, Dealer Dan Feldman purchased the throne in a lot, priced it at $3,000. Eventually believing it was a jinx, he sold it to Dealer Osiel in another...
...great boon to the British at this point was well-meaning but jinx-bearing Major Kermit Roosevelt, who bobbed up in Cairo. The 26th U. S. President's second son joined the British Army in October 1939. The following February he resigned to lead "a modern crusade" to Finland, but the Finnish War ended too soon. Back with the British Army again last spring, promoted from second lieutenant to major, he went to Narvik, was there long enough to be driven out. He planned to go to France, but France collapsed before he got there. Arriving in Egypt...
Rounding out its second week of practice, a heavy Freshman team will head north to Exeter this Saturday in an effort to overcome the first of the season jinx which generally sends Yardling teams down to defeat before their more experienced schoolboy fees...
...backfield, Coach Lloyd Jordan started an all-senior quarter composed of quarter-back Charlie Callanan, left half Frank Sweeny, right half Dick Kuehne and fullback Bob Bidwell. All but Kuehne, who was retarded by the injury jinx in '39, are lettermen...