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...Other great-brain weights: Turgenev, 4.435 Ib.; Byron, 3.98 Ib.; Kant, 3.5 Ib.; Schiller, 3.48 Ib.; Dante, 3.14 Ib.; Anatole France, 2.24 Ib. Average...
...Also signed up with the Lions this year: Byron ("Whizzer") White, returning to football after a year at Yale. His salary will be considerably less than the $15,000 he got for playing eleven professional games with the Pittsburgh Pirates two years ago, before going to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar...
...White House lawn Democratic Vice-Presidential Nominee Henry Wallace and Attorney General Robert Jackson put on an exhibition of boomerang throwing for cameramen (see cut). Before News-photographer Byron Rollins, who was snapping them, could get out of the way, one of the boomerangs came back, knocked him down, cut a deep gash in his scalp...
Such a team - Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, Sam Snead, Ralph Guldahl, Horton Smith, Paul Runyan, Dick Metz, Jim my Hines, Harold McSpaden, Vic Ghezzi! "From the boys they overlooked I could pick ten that would beat the pants off that team," sneered Sarazen - with a special glare at his old rival, Walter Hagen, chosen captain for the seventh time...
...individual, a U. S. phenomenon, a U. S. symbol. The nice son of a nice U. S. environment, he never entirely either out grew or betrayed it. He was essentially, if mildly, an artist and a rebel, he achieved neither art nor rebellion. He was an innocent sort of Byron-of-his-time...