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...balls a week to members. At New York's Westchester Country Club, professional divers were hired to fish up balls from a lake bottom. At Atlanta's Black Rock Course-where a galleryite last winter offered Sam Snead a prewar ball for his match with Byron Nelson, in exchange for an autograph-draining of a big lake yielded 16,000 waterlogged pellets for reprocessing...
...fact was driven home first to Lieut. Colonel Byron F. King's battalion. They had come to the ridge after an easy march from their landing places, only to find themselves pinned against a main Japanese defense line, boxed in by artillery fire, their flanks under merciless mortar attack...
...angry letter to Major General Joseph W. Byron, top Army man at Ward's, the company declared that a ma jor in charge of its Jamaica, L.I. store had been carrying on scandalously. His drunkenness and disorderly conduct, said the letter (which was released to the press), had seriously lowered employe morale, endangered the good will of Ward customers, and caused loss to the company...
...Atlanta, Byron Nelson putted with mechanical magic up to 45 feet, chopped 13 strokes off par for a 72-hole total of 263, never drew a deep breath as he won the last (and his fourth straight) tourney of the winter circuit. The victory upped his 1945 earnings to $17,857, gave him an eight-to-six edge in tournaments won over capable but collapsible Sammy Snead...
Censorship Director Byron Price, whose hand on the blue pencil has usually been both light and wise, used a slightly heavier hand last week. He asked editors to go easy on discussing "expectations or probabilities" about the future of Russo-Japanese relations. Reason: "speculations . . . however erroneous they might prove to be, could possibly lead to a Japanese attack on Russia." The Washington Post, which like many a U.S. paper had already made the obvious deduction that Russia's denunciation of its Jap pact "bodes a break sooner or later," confessed to unwittingly violating censorship: "Our consternation over the gaffe...