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Harvard's jinx over Brown is not likely to be broken this afternoon when the Crimson wrestling team meets the Bruins in Brown's Marvel Gym. The freshman wrestlers start the proceedings...
Alben Berkley was going to spend his Christmas with the U.S. garrison in Berlin, as co-star of a cold-war U.S.O. troupe that included Bob Hope, Jinx Falkenburg, Irving Berlin, Air Secretary Stuart Symington, and half a dozen Rockettes. A Congressman for 35 years, Vice President-elect for eight weeks, Barkley was living up to his new responsibilities: "My time just isn't my own any more...
...Jinx Worries...
...hard, never busting the Yale line, the game swaying back and forth with no scoring. Then, with two minutes to go, Yale took over on a punt at midfield, and worked down quickly. Booth stopped back and kicked a field goal, and with that kick cracked his personal jinx and ruined the record of a great Harvard team...
...this precision in the business of football does not make Art the perfect scientific man. He is, in fact, quite superstitious. He will not sit in a certain chair at the Monday morning Gridiron Club luncheon because he thinks it is a jinx. The last time he sat in it, his team ended up the week by losing to Connell, 40 to 6. He doesn't want pictures of the team taken in game uniforms--another jinx. He was even afraid this very article might be a jinx, until he was assured that a story on the rival coach, Herman...