Word: jinxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even Whitney's second stringers have been plagued by the injury jinx. George Batchelder, a replacement for Broder, will be unable to start, because of the grippe. Walt Niemyski, slated to start at goal in place of Rosenman, is fighting a bad cold, but will dress for the game...
Brown's head football coach, Charles A. (Rip) Engle, has resigned to assume the same post at Penn State, it was announced Saturday. Engle, who became head coach at Brown in 1944, lost four straight games to Harvard, before breaking the "Stadium jinx...
Right after lunch is the best time for portraits of important men, famed Portrait Photographers Fabian and Bradford Bachrach told the New York Herald Tribune's Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg. One of the Bachrachs' most difficult subjects, they said, was Thomas E. Dewey. The toughest of all was the late Rorello La Guardia, who "would never sit still." They recalled their favorite "trick"-on overworked President Herbert Hoover at the start of the 1932 presidential campaign. He was too tired to sit erect when he came in for the sitting: "We stacked seven books in a chair...