Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a loyal Administration Democrat figured that Politician Truman could not afford to risk another blow such as he suffered last week in Senator Burton K. Wheeler's defeat. Gloomed one Democrat with a deep, professional interest in his party's fortunes: "I don't know why the Boss had to get himself mixed up in that one (the Montana primary). But you can bet your salary we're going to try to steer him away from any such foolish moves in the future...
...competition last Wednesday, players from the Graduate Schools won a 7 to 2 victory over the Crimson crew. Ashley, Douropulos, Fox, and Burns from the graduate schools won singles, and all three graduate school doubles teams, Ashley and Fox, Greespan and Martin, and Burton and Sadove, were victorious...
Although he had won the last British Open championship (in 1939), he cheerfully assured his hosts that there were at least two better golfers in Britain than he. Just 54 hours after getting off the ship, 38-year-old Dick Burton teed off at Boston's Charles River Country Club in a 36-hole match against Byron Nelson, the big wheel of U.S. golf...
...weather was familiar to Britain's Burton: raw, grey and windy. But that didn't make up for five golfless years in the R.A.F. ground force. When his tee shots were straight and true, his putter was erratic. At the end of 18 holes he was six down. Scores: Nelson 71, Burton...
Next day, the pair moved to Mamaroneck, N.Y., and dovetailed the second half of their match into the Goodall round-robin tourney. By the twelfth green, Burton was out. In the round-robin, he quickly became isth in a field of 15. But he got to see some sub-70 performances by U.S. golfers-with no teeing up on the fairways. The lowest: Jug McSpaden's seven-under...