Word: jinxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard still has not shaken the injury jinx: senior end Pete Hall and Ananis's replacements. Jim Higgins and Neil Hurley, will all be sidelined...
...Having a sports figure on your cover [Sept. 13] is jinx enough. But dated Friday the 13th, it must be twice as jinxed. Apparently, this did not hinder Denny McLain in achieving his 30th victory. Just add 13, the date on the cover, plus 17 from his uniform and you get the magic number...
...screenplay, which begins as genuine comedy, soon degenerates into spurious melodrama. Moreover, Director Nichols, perhaps affected by his stage experience, has given much of the film the closed-in air of a studio set. Like Nichols himself, The Graduate appears to be a victim of the sophomore jinx...
DEESPITE the worldwide prominence that comes with an appearance on TIME'S cover, some of our subjects are not always happy about appearing there. Performers and athletes especially are wary; they keep remembering the so-called jinx that is supposed to hover over the careers of people once they have "made" our cover. One apparent corroboration of the jinx theory occurred in 1964, when Hank Bauer and his Baltimore Orioles seemed to have the pennant sewed up until Hank appeared on TIME. After that, the team lost half its games-and the pennant race. (Although two years later...
...people bother to count up the sportsmen who have been unbothered by the jinx. They were chosen for their excellence and they continue to display the qualities that put them on the cover. Latest on that long list is Yachtsman Bus Mosbacher, who appeared on the Aug. 18 cover. After Bus sailed Intrepid to four straight victories over Australia's challenger Dame Pattie, we learned that his crew had hung copies of the cover portrait belowdecks. With proper nautical aplomb, they sailed right into the face of the cover-jinx myth...