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...Jinx. To win at Chamonix, Ferries will need the speed of a sprinter and the agility of an acrobat; he must thread his way twice through the tortuous course at breakneck speed. He will have to stave off the challenge of such superb skiers as Austria's nimble Gerhard Nenning and France's bull-necked Guy Périllat-who swept every major Alpine title in 1961. Ferries will have to lick an old jinx: in 28 years of trying, no U.S. male skier has ever brought home an F.I.S. or Olympic Alpine championship. He may also have...
...Palmer blazed out the kind of game that made him the top moneymaker in golf history last year (with $80,738). He fired the first nine holes in par 36, came home with a whirlwind 34. After a birdie on the 16th, he blasted an eagle three on his jinx hole, the lyth, which he three-putted three times last year. He birdied the last hole, finished five strokes ahead of Player. Though the match added $10,000 to his jingling till, Palmer still remained second to Player in official 1961 earnings, $55,539-23 to $54,283.93, because...
...Hahn's Le Marchand de Venise (1935). The various operatic treatments of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice have one quality in common: they have all but disappeared from the stage. Last week yet another Merchant had arrived-with a good chance of beating the old jinx. The composer: Italy's Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco...
From the beginning, Castelnuovo-Tedesco never had any doubt that his opera would win the Campari Prize and triumph over the jinx. "The Merchant is one of the least properly exploited of Shakespeare's plays," said he last week. And he added, paraphrasing his contemporary, Shylock: "I am content...
Coach Jordan Oliver's Bulldogs will be after more than the school's first Ivy title since 1956 and its first undefeated, untied season football record since 1923, though. They want to overcome the "Harvard jinx." Including freshman games, the juniors and seniors on this year's Yale team have never beaten a Harvard football club. For the 17 seniors in their last game for the Blue-the same men who formed the bulk of the winless team of 1958-today's contest will especially be a revengeful affair. In their freshman year they lost to Harvard...