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...Byron ("Whizzer") White, All-America halfback, Rhodes scholar and Navy hero, who forsook professional football's enticements ($15,000 a season) to study law, got the job most coveted by fledgling barristers. The job: clerk to Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice...
...dominated wartime competition so completely that he came to be called "Mr. Golf" was sick & tired of the game. Last week Byron Nelson, nervous, greying and ailing at 34, turned up in Portland, Ore. to defend his national pro championship. Before the tournament got under way he announced that it was his farewell to year-round golfing...
...Kirkwood Junior!" Elsewhere on the course, a "Masked Marvel," a man in kilts and Joe Louis were going their rounds. This was Chicago Promoter George S. May's idea of a golf tournament. It was in violent conflict with most golfers' ideas, yet the top pros, from Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan on down were all there. The Tam O'Shanter offered prizes totaling $50,875, golfdom's bonanza of the year...
...regulation 72 holes, three early finishers sweated it out in the locker-room, tied up at 284. One was Byron Nelson, who would have won had he not been robbed by the rule book (it cost him a stroke when his caddy accidentally kicked his ball). His toughest competitor all winter, Ben Hogan, the little man with the deadly grin, had also looked like a winner, storming up the fairway to the last two holes. Then his putter went cold; he missed a two-footer on the last green. That finished...
...Married. Byron Raymond ("Whizzer") White, 28, brainy onetime Colorado halfback (All-America 1937) and Rhodes scholar, lately a PT-boat skipper, now a law student at Yale; and Marion Stearns, 24, ex-WAVE daughter of University of Colorado President Robert L. Stearns; in Boulder, Colo...