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...Benedictine monk, wrote his Martyrology in the 9th Century, at the instigation of Charles the Bald. * Last such definition, in 1854: the dogma of Mary's Immaculate Conception (that she was conceived free of original sin). † An official papal document named for the lead seal, or bulla, which papal and royal documents carried in the early Middle Ages...
...final round, while Middlecoff was floundering, Snead treated himself to a 66. By winning the North and South (by six strokes over Runner-Up Johnny Bulla), Sam Snead boosted his earnings for the year to $32,393. Next best: Middlecoff, with...
...From the Latin bulla (seal); an important papal letter certified with a leaden seal...
...swooped up by gusts and landed in the rough. When somebody told him the same thing was happening to everybody else, unpredictable Sammy Snead finally settled down to steady, safe playing. It won him his first British Open with a 290, four strokes better than his fellow American Johnny Bulla and South Africa's Bobby Locke. It was only the second major championship that Snead had won in 10 years of topflight, big-money playing (his first: the 1942 P.G.A. in Atlantic City...
...ancient cradle of golf, only three U. S. golfers were among the 240 who teed up their balls last week in the 74th British Open, world's No. 1 golf tournament. But when the field narrowed down to two, one of the finalists was an American: big Johnny Bulla, a Chicago pro who was playing in his first British tournament. After finishing his last round in 73 for a 72-hole total of 292, it looked as if an American would once again win the Open. But while Johnny Bulla fidgeted in the clubhouse and 5,000 Britons held...