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Married. Virginia Hand ("Jinx") Callaway, 19, only daughter of Textile Tycoon Cason Callaway, good friend of fellow Warm Springs Enthusiast Franklin Delano Roosevelt; and Lieut. Benjamin Mart Bailey Jr., 24, football and track star on 1939 West Point teams; in La Grange...
...drawing its equipment this afternoon, this year's squad starts practice earlier than any previous Freshman lacrosse team in an effort to break the Yale victory jinx that has plagued all Yardling stickmen since lacrosse has been a first-year sport. The men will be under the tutelage of Norman Blottner 1L, who, last year, was elected to the Honorable Mention list of the All-American lacrosse team...
...Navy jinx is broken at last. Before an enthusiastic capacity crowd in the indoor Athletic Building the grapplers held the sailor-boys to a 16 to 16 tie Saturday afternoon while the Freshmen downed Governor Dummer...
...opponents in a row, were considered the best team the Southwest had ever seen. But in 57 agonizing seconds last week, the Farmers saw their $100,000 bid to the Rose Bowl vanish. At Austin, where no Texas A. & M. team has beaten Texas since 1922, the old jinx spurred a team of Longhorns that had been twice beaten this year to paralyze their old rivals with a lightning-swift stab. With Fullback Peter Layden tossing two magnificent forward passes and then plunging over the line, Texas chalked up a touchdown-that turned out to be margin enough...
Place prepared for college at Milton Academy, where he was track manager. He won the competition for Freshman manager last year, and is the first man in several years to nab both the coveted positions. Beside breaking this jinx, he overcame the handicap of being on crutches the whole season, because of a skiing accident last Christmas...