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Kentucky. At Pineville a deputy sheriff was killed, a miner stabbed during the voting. Impounded by law for 24 hours, the ballots indicated that Democratic Senator Alben W. Barkley, a Wet convert had won renomination over George B. Martin, oldtime Wet, thus breaking a 30-year jinx against Kentucky Senators succeeding themselves. The State's failure to reduce its House seats from eleven to nine required the nomination of all Congressional candidates as Representatives-at-large...
...himself. Dr. Archer's suggestions proved invaluable to Detective Dart who seated himself in Frimbo's parlor and proceeded to examine suspects: the undertaker; the undertaker's wife ; a Negro porter named Easley Jones; a dope fiend; a "numbers" runner; two light-hearted Negro bucks named Bubber Brown and Jinx Jenkins; a gaunt female Baptist...
...hard to see in the dark and because white folk, not knowing much about them, believe them primitively prone to violence. Author Fisher writes much better than most white fictioneers. One of the things that makes his book unusual is highly appropriate local color about Harlem. Bubber Brown and Jinx Jenkins are as funny as Amos & Andy. Says Bubber: ''You won't find nobody black as me that's less suprastitious." Says Jinx: "Just say you won't find anyone as black as you and stop. . . ." The Conjure-Man Dies is also probably the first detective story in which...
Voyaging again to New Haven, scene of its 4 to 1 victory over Yale, the University hockey team concludes its season tonight with a game in whose denouement the Great God Jinx may play a master hand. A Crimson triumph would mean the first humbling of the Big Blue since 1928, a tie leaves Harvard still with the edge, defeat spells another stalemate similar to that...
...that is proving a decisive factor both on defense and offense, took part in three of Harvard's scoring sallies. Saltonstall, who despite his willingness to mix things up and the possession of a powerful shot, has had difficulty in capitalizing his scoring opportunities this season, shook off his jinx and saw his shot nestle in Dartmouth strings on two occasions. The second Saltonstall goal finished off the scoring of the game and was achieved on a solo invasion...