Word: jinxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pack of bumbling criminals, moviegoers whose memories reach back a decade or so are apt to grow nostalgic and inquire rhetorically: Guinness, anyone? Rotten invites comparison to Sir Alec's memorable extralegal capers in The Man in the White Suit and The Lavender Hill Mob, but its low-jinx omits such essentials as wit, slyness and style...
Despite this array of talent, Pappas is the only Oriole starter who is a sure thing to have a good season. Roberts and Haddix are getting old. Barber will have to show that he can regain his 1963 form. Bunker will be confronting the sophomore jinx, and had an unimpressive spring training...
...Walt will break his Heptagonal jinx," McCurdy said confidently yesterday. If he does, Navy may have trouble even keeping close...
...coach, Ara Parseghian, wrote a Midwest sports columnist last week, was that he hadn't made the cover of TIME. This wry little note took public notice of a myth that is a continuing topic of conversation among journalists -particularly sportswriters. It is known as the TIME cover jinx...
...knows just how the myth got started, but it has persisted for 30 years. Any sports figure who gets on the cover of TIME, goes the mythology, is doomed to defeat-in a phrase, has had it. TIME Subscriber Ara Parseghian saw that jinx note in the sports column while Correspondent Marsh Clark was interviewing him for this week's cover. He smiled rather bravely and allowed that he wasn't worried. How ever, while there is no computerized or even uncomputerized evidence to support the myth, it can be said that someone almost always loses in sports...