Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Dempsey--Helena Stanley (Pine Manor...
Maynard Rees--Diana Dempsey (Pine Manor...
These unfortunate, though timely, lapses from form may, or may not, constitute a "jinx." They are exceptions to the scores of sports figures who have found TIME'S cover no handicap (e.g., Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, Helen Wills, "Red" Grange, "Bobby" Jones, Mickey Cochrane, Yachtsman Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt, Bullfighter Juan Belmonte). It is worth noting, however, that TIME took no chances with its first sports cover: Horseman Stephan ("Laddie") Sanford (March 31, 1923). His horse (Sergeant Murphy) had already won the Grand National before the cover appeared...
...Accuse me, if you will, of endorsing backwardness, indifference and ignorance, but let me ask, in return, whether we were not much happier when our rages involved [such matters as] whether the referee gave Tunney a long count or Dempsey hit Jack Sharkey...
General Henry D. G. Crerar's Canadians were closing on Emden and Lieut. General Sir Miles C. Dempsey's British shelled Bremen and Hamburg at close range. The German Navy, however, did not fight. The admiral commanding the German North Sea naval district headquarters at Buxtehude surrendered to Dempsey's 11th Armored Division, which captured 500 women auxiliaries, in bell-bottomed trousers and coats of navy blue. The 11th also captured a circus, fully "operational" except for two wounded bears...