Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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...
Sirs: If we give Britain the sort of all out aid we sent to Greece, she is going to be all in before receiving it. ... WINNIE BYRON Montezuma, Colo...
...Reader Byron's crack is rather unfair. The U.S. had no time to send any substantial aid to Greece...