Word: jinxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hockey team put together a consistently tight defense and a rapidly improving offense to break decisively a two-year post-exam period Northeastern jinx at the Garden last night. The Crimson scored its second highest total of the season, topping the Huskies...
...balls they are apt to think they are selfish-but this one is for a most worthy cause"), and ended her 25-minute show with a plug for a midtown restaurant ("It's wonderful for hand-holding"). Though not quite as sure of herself as Maggi McNellis and Jinx Falkenburg, Newcomer Sloan is already as determinedly chatty as any veteran lady of the airways...
...most potent whammy in Texas U. tradition-and nothing to be lightly invoked. Back in 1941, after some sorority girls got the tip from a fortune teller, red candles were lighted on the eve of,the Texas A.&M. game, and Texas U. broke an 18-year jinx by beating A.&M. on the enemy's home field. In 1950, Texas broke out the red candles for the second time, and upset Southern Methodist, the nation's No. 1 team. And once more, last week, the red candles burned in campus store windows, dormitories, classrooms and even...
Weekend (Sun. 4 p.m.) splices together a lot of tape and reels it out as a two-hour "Sunday newspaper of the air." Its 15-minute "pages" cover everything from world news to criticism of the arts, call in some well-known name droppers. Tex McCrary interviews celebrities, and Jinx runs a woman's page, Mel Allen talks sports, Elmo Roper talks trends, Florabel Muir (see PRESS) gushes from Hollywood, Earl Wilson gives Broadway lowdown. Weekend is almost overwhelming in its volume and variety, but a generally relaxed manner and skillful transitions make it well worth hearing...
...point of taking novice friends with him, then fooling them into accompanying him down the most frightening slopes. Other members of the Chemistry Department are wary of going with him, as his guests have an unusual propensity for breaking legs. Even his wife was unable to escape this jinx. One of his most prized possessions is a framed letter from Eliot Perkins, Master of Lowell House, in which Perkins takes full responsibility for breaking the leg of Reginald P. Linstead, famed English scientist who accompanied Kistiakowsky and Perkins on a skiing expedition about ten years...