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...Byron, Don Juan...
Sport in general had slumped to an alltime, wartime low. The outstanding exception was professional golf-and its star of stars. The quality of competition in other sports had fallen off, but in golf the steady competition of par was the same as ever. Against that unwavering opponent, John Byron Nelson had proved himself not only the athlete of the year but one of the greatest golfers ever...
Through 65 competitive rounds he had the best long-pull score in the history of the game: an 18-hole average of 69.26, With five tourneys still to go, he had almost doubled the money-winning record of $19,534.49 established by Sammy Snead in 1938. Byron Nelson was the perfect pro, and occasional lapses with his putter merely proved that he was human...
Last week, after puffing up his earnings with three one-reel shorts for Columbia (King of the Fairways, The Iron-Masters, Chips and Putts), Byron Nelson called time out. He tossed his clubs aside, resigned as pro at Toledo's swank Inverness Club, and headed for the Pacific North west and several weeks of hunting and fishing. The softspoken, 32-year-old Texan had better control over his nerves, as well as his shots, than ever before, but he needed a rest. He would play no more tournaments until the Portland (Ore.) Open, starting...
...young Auden at first doted on photography, engineering, motorcycles and whales. But he soon turned to poetry, by the early 1930s was the leader of Britain's famed, leftist "Auden Circle." Like most original poets, Auden experimented constantly with the styles and techniques of his predecessors-Donne, Blake, Byron, Housman, Yeats, Rilke. He wrote sharply satirical leftish poems (The Orators, The Dance of Death), co-authored verse dramas with Isherwood (The Ascent of F6, The Dog Beneath the Skin), edited anthologies (The Oxford Book of Light Verse), turned out some of the most sparkling verse of his time, wrote...