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...face appeared in Congress last week-and a pretty one. Katharine Edgar Byron was the fifth Congressional widow to take her seat in the 77th Congress. (Altogether, nine Congressmen wear skirts.) Unlike her distinguished widowed colleagues, Senator Hattie Caraway, Representatives Margaret Smith, Frances Bolton, Mrs. Byron did not slide easily into her late husband's place. She won it the hard way-by licking a veteran, C.I.0.-backed opponent...
Texas is proud of its homebred sport stars: Football's Sammy Baugh, Baseball's Dizzy Dean, Tennis' Wilmer Allison. But when it comes to golf, the Lone Star State has no lone star but a little dipper full: Ralph Guldahl, Byron Nelson, Jimmy Demaret, Ben Hogan, Lloyd Mangrum, Harry Cooper. In the Augusta Masters last year, Texans finished...
...Northerners, the 45th U.S. Open looked like a Texas stampede. In local bookie shops, betting commissioners made Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan, onetime fellow caddies at the nearby Glen Garden Club, co-favorites at 5-t01. Some experts rate Nelson the best all-round golfer in the world. Others say the same about Hogan, who has not been out of the money in 47 consecutive big-time tournaments. But in the Open almost anything can happen...
...British Opens in playoffs. This time his 284 was three strokes better than the score of his nearest rival, Denny Shute, and five strokes better than that of third-place Ben Hogan. The next best score turned in by a Texan was the 295 of Lloyd Mangrum. Mighty Byron Nelson...
Rear Admiral Arthur Byron ("Cookie") Cook, 59, commands an unannounced number of shore-based aircraft which patrol with the Fleet, at least two carriers (Ranger, the recently added Wasp), and perhaps a third (the Saratoga). Like his chief, he switched to air duty after more than 20 years in surface vessels, had a tour as Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics...