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...going to walk under a ladder, I'll walk around it just to be orthodox," notes the coach. In his youth he admits to having "avoided the cracks in the sidewalk" whenever he took a walk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Superstitious Coaches Depend on Barbers, Lucky Clothes in Hopes of Repeating Wins | 4/16/1953 | See Source »

Special Delivery. In Middletown, Ohio, Letter Carrier Webster Newton opened a sidewalk mailbox to collect the outgoing mail, found a can of washing powder, four cans of cold beer, $11 in change, two keys, and 28 envelopes filled with scrap paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 30, 1953 | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Standin. In San Francisco, a stranger stabbed Lawrance Bridges in the neck, knocked him to the sidewalk, then said: "Pardon me, I thought you were Jerry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 16, 1953 | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

Noble wept. "My God," he said in a dazed voice. "My conscience is clear." He was repeating, "Thankful ... so thankful," as he walked outside and vanished in the hurrying and irascible throng on the sidewalk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Love Story | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...next time you're forced off the sidewalk by a Hannes Schneider pair of skis, or you bumble into a conversation about granular on the Nosedive, don't be misled. It's just ski jargon for what you too have discussed. Who does what, where, when, and how much...

Author: By James M. Sitzmark, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 1/24/1953 | See Source »

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