Word: byronism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fred Harvey system, famed for the fine food with which it has lined the stomachs of Western rail travelers, last week got a new president. Byron Schemerhorn Harvey Jr. is a grandson of the founder. Young (39), well-tailored Mr. Harvey, connoisseur of Indian art and holder of a master's degree in restaurant management from the University of Chicago, succeeded his father, who moved up to the board chairmanship. When M-G-M recently paid tribute to the Harvey system in The Harvey Girls, Byron Harvey was technical adviser, played a small part...
English 140d, English romanticism; English 170f, American popular literature; English 170g, Jonathan Edwards; English 250d, Byron; English 300g, criticism and esthetics; Mathematics 19a, mathematical logic; Math. 31, conformal mapping; Math. 36, topological spaces...
...world's best golfer, the Los Angeles Open tourney was always a pesky stumbling block. Byron Nelson had never won it, actually finished out of the money (worse than 16th) five years ago. In his jinx tourney last week, played on the country's third toughest course, Perfectionist Nelson slipped on an early 18-inch putt, blamed wet turf, then rolled flawlessly home with a winning 284. Nelson's most likely challenger was not present: a hit-'em-a-mile amateur, Army Lieutenant Gary Middlecoff, who burned up the fairways while on furlough last fall...
...Mortimer, sister of Mrs. Vincent Astor and Mrs. John Hay Whitney (ex-Mrs. Jimmy Roosevelt), again nosed out Mrs. Byron Foy, who sat firmly in second place, followed by Mrs. Millicent Rogers. Notable absence: Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart, last year's third. Notable presence: Valentina, dress designer. The rest of the top ten, all past placers: Mrs. Lawrence Tibbett, the Duchess of Windsor, Louise Macy Hopkins (whose husband Harry is chairman of Manhattan's garment industry), Cinemactress Rosalind Russell, Mrs. Robert Sarnoff, Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce...
Year's lowest 18-hole stroke average: Byron Nelson's 68.33, good for 19 pro golf tourney wins and an unprecedented $66,600 in war-bond prizes (an A.P. poll named him "athlete of the year" over the Army's Fullback Doc Blanchard and Detroit's 25-game-winning Pitcher Hal Newhouser...