Word: jinxed
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...Yale by sinking the mediocre Quakers, and from New Haven comes the word that the Elis are ready to offer good odds that their team will continue its long, long victory streak when it faces the Crimson in a meet that is assuming the proportions of the Yale Bowl jinx . . . . the confident, Varsity grapplers face a mediocre Yale team on the Medford mat and Harvey Ross faces the best wrestler in New England at his weight in the Jumbo 118 pound matman . . . . the Polo team will also be at New Haven against the Elis...
...Elliot who went to the land of squirrel-dodgers. He turned Hollywood actor, Ohio State haunted hi. He played leads in movies as College Life and College Window. To break the jinx, he turned director, so he made She Loves Me Not (in which Bing Crosby was a Princeton student) and College Scandals. By this time people every where were studying Thurber's nonsensical "telephonebooth" drawings in the New Yorker and laughing at whatever they thought the drawings meant. James Thurber has written an autobiography, My Lige and Hands and collaborated on Is Sex Necessary? Elliot, no such questions...
...with looping streamers of Cole Porter music and twinkling patches of young dancing. Proper in proportion and dazzle are its two large production packages: 1) Rolling Home sung by Ted (James Stewart), Gunny Saks (Sid Silvers) and Mush (Buddy Ebsen) with a chorus of sailors; 2) Swingin' the Jinx Away, the monumental finale, sung by everybody on top of the tree...
...team coached by Tennessee's Bob Neyland at Knoxville. Undefeated Duke last week kept its hopes of a national championship intact until two minutes before the game ended. Then Tennessee Halfback Thomas ("Red") Harp's 70-yd. runback of a Duke punt wrecked them, saved the Tennessee jinx...
...even the election of a Captain, E. Samuel Merrill, goalie from Exeter and Lowell, could break the Andover jinx as a Freshman soccer team went down before the schoolboys for the fourth successive year by a one goal margin Saturday...