Word: jinxing
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NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS, but everybody loves Robert Preston, an enchanting rogue, a human jinx, and a TV python of mass media production. Ronald Alexander's comedy is caustic, pertinent and wildly amusing...
Crimson squash captain Vio Niederhoffer snapped an old personal Jinx and began what may be Harvard's best squash season over by winning the Gold Raquets tournament in New York Sunday...
Mike Bassett was comfortingly at case with the first unit. If he can avoid the injury jinx that struck down the last two senior quarterbacks on Crimson teams, Harvard will enjoy highly competent, efficient field direction throughout the season...
...grave shortage of grouse," groused Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, 64, after bagging a paltry 28 on the first day of his shoot on the moors of Yorkshire. A jinx? Unlikely, even though the P.M. had changed his hunting suit for the first time in 36 years. The old coat-and-knickerbockers, complete with matching cap and four-button spats, had given out. But even the wiliest grouse could not have detected the change. The new coat-and-knickerbockers, complete with matching cap and four-button spats, were nearly identical to the rig he bought in 1927. "I believe that...
...across the finish line in front, Gurney relinquished his lead only three times-each time for a pit stop. His winning margin for the six-hour race: 36 sec. Waving a $13,600 check, Gurney beamed the happy smile of a man who, at long last, had broken a jinx. "This was my first victory here," he said. "It feels very, very good...