Word: byronism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another product of Glen Garden's caddy pen, Byron Nelson, was burning up the courses and breaking 70. Ben was not that good, but one Christmas Day he tied Nelson in the annual Glen Garden caddy tournament. He practiced like a beaver. Bobby Jones once said: "Hogan is the hardest worker I've ever seen, not only in golf but in any other sport." He played the Texas amateur circuit, trying to do as well as such crack golfers as Ralph Guldahl (who became U.S. Open champion in 1937 and 1938) and Nelson (U.S. Open champion...
...Road to Rome" will be the first professional play to be staged to benefit the Annex 70th Anniversary Fund. Last year, Radcliffe's Idler Players turned over to the Fund its first-night earnings from the double production of "Lord Byron's Love Letter," and "A Phoenix Too Frequent...
...modern, well-paved Trans-Canada Highway is not for want of talk. Associations all over the Dominion have plugged for it. So have provincial leaders, and last week Ottawa admitted that it had heard some of them. Prompted by the oratory of British Columbia's Premier Byron ("Boss") Johnson at the Liberal Convention, it promised to call a Dominion-provincial highway conference this fall. Because the British North America Act leaves the problem of highways to the provinces, Ottawa was not ready to do much more than confer. Besides, it wanted the provinces to bear at least half...
Three years ago, the U.N. charter was signed at San Francisco. During ceremonies commemorating that all but forgotten anniversary, U.S. wartime Censor Byron Price said last week: "The United Nations has not become what it was intended to be. [It] cannot endure half success and half failure...
Claude had never won a major tournament in his life, and had no illusions about this one-the famed Masters'. The elite of golf was lined up against him. Baby-faced Byron Nelson, 36, who quit the big-time two years ago because "I found myself playing more golf at 3 o'clock in the morning than in the daytime," was back to try his hand. So was the great Bobby Jones, 46 (now an Atlanta lawyer), playing his one tournament of the year. And there were such other old masters as chunky Gene Sarazen and lean Horton...