Word: byronical
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...series on NBC pitting American pros against foreign pros on foreign courses. It is so fussily produced that huge camera booms are camouflaged to look like natural vegetation. The host-commentator is Gene Sarazen. In the first match, Gene Littler plays against Scotland's Eric Brown at Gleneagles. Byron Nelson will take on Holland's Gerry de Wit at The Hague. The U.S.'s Dave Ragan will play against the Philippines' Celestino Tugot at Manila's Wack-Wack Golf Club. So it goes for all but one of the eleven matches in the series...
...Byron R. White, associate Justice of the Supreme Court, will preside at the final argument of the Law School Ames competition this spring. The moot court competition in appellate brief writing and oral advocacy was established in 1911; participation in its higher rounds is one of the highest honors at the School...
...trip from the 50-yd. line to the bench was a proud one for Byron R. ("Whizzer") White, 45. An All-America halfback at Colorado ('37). White won a Rhodes scholarship, played pro football for Pittsburgh and Detroit, finished at the top of his class at Yale Law School, finally made the biggest time of all when President Kennedy sent him in as Associate Supreme Court Justice in 1962. In recognition of White's unsurpassed career as athlete and jurist, the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame gave him its fifth annual Gold Medal Award. Another honor...
According to Byron R. Stookey, Associate Director of Advanced Standing and one of the first advisers to the group, the American Indian Project began in 1961 with enthusiasm on the part of Dorothy E. Lee's freshman anthropology seminar. She and Mrs. Robert Rosenthal, a member of the executive board of the Association of American Indian Affairs, first set up employment opportunities on the reservations...
...Eliot: "The attitude of an age toward its Lord Byron-in this case a sort of combination of Lord Byron and Dr. Johnson-is always . . . different from the attitude of the future. Won't the future say to us ... did you actually believe that all those things about objective correlatives, classicism applied to his poetry? Surely you must have seen he was one of the most subjective and demonic poets who ever lived? Take The Waste Land, which Eliot would have written about the Garden of Eden but which your age thought its own realistic photograph. After the first...