Word: jinxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME jinx" cry is on again. Sugar Ray Robinson, it says, was voodooed out of his world middleweight crown last week (see Sport) by his picture on the June 25 TIME cover...
Yehudi Menuhin added another anecdote to the Toscanini legend. In an interview with syndicated Columnists Tex & Jinx McCrary, Menuhin told of the time he and Toscanini were rehearsing in the peace & quiet of a hotel room...
When a cheering crowd finally let him leave the green after 30 minutes, Chapman explained how he had finally broken his jinx: "I owe it all to Ben Hogan. He taught me to shift my right hand and cured me of hooking my irons. I changed my grip just before I came over here." Added beaming Dick Chapman: "I've been waiting a long time to say this is the happiest day of my life...
Novelist James (Lost Horizon) Hilton let Columnists Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg in on a well-kept secret-the origin of his famous Shangri-La. "La means 'mountain pass' in the language of Tibet, but the Shangri was my own idea . . . made it up out of whole cloth because it sounded so Tibetan, you see. Later on, a Far Eastern scholar wrote and told me that Shangri means 'secret' in Tibetan, so there you have it ... Rather surprising, what...
...Communist for the FBI (Warner) bucks a longtime box-office jinx. Except for 1939's deft Ninotchka, which turned laughter loose on Communism, none of Hollywood's anti-Communist movies (e.g., The Red Menace, The Iron Curtain, The Red Danube) has fared well with the customers. The Warner Brothers, who landed in the black with 1939's Confessions of a Nazi Spy, now try to turn the same trick against the Reds...