Word: byronical
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...golfer gets to the tenth tee and learns that he is four strokes behind the leader, two things can happen. The news can disrupt his game completely or it can make him play superlatively well. This was the alternative which, last week at Augusta, Ga., faced 25-year-old Byron Nelson, whose most noteworthy previous achievement as a golf professional was winning New York's Metropolitan Open Championship last summer...
Fanny's letters never mention what she really thought of her lover's poetry, though on other literary subjects she is quite frank: "I go on as usual, reading every trumpery novel that comes in my way spoiling my taste and understanding. . . ."-A passage on Byron is almost a giveaway: "Don't you or do you admire Don Juan? perhaps you like the serious parts best but I have been credibly informed that Lord B. is not really a great poet, have taken a sort of dislike to him when serious and only adore...
...BYRON H. CAPLES, M. D. Reno, Nevada...
...Northern Trust Co.'s meeting a fourth-generation Chicago banker was elevated to the board of his family's bank last week-Solomon Byron Smith, 31, vice president son of President Solomon Albert Smith, a grandson of that bank's founder and a great-grandson of a powder salesman who helped found what was later the cornerstone of big Continental Illinois...
Died. Dame Fanny Lucy Radmall Houston, eccentric widow of Shipowner Sir Robert Patterson Houston, reputedly England's richest woman ($25,000,000); of heart disease; at Byron Cottage, Hampstead, England. A champion of British supremacy, in 1931 she gave $500,000 to enable Britain to win the last Schneider Cup Trophy air races, financed the 1933 flight over Mt. Everest, twice offered to donate $1,000,000 to strengthen the British Army & Navy...