Word: byronism
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...ones-like the tortoise in Aesop's fable, reached the quarter-pole first with winnings of $4,448. A hair's breadth behind was curly-headed Johnny Revolta ($4,390), whose red-hot putting kept him in front of Henry Picard ($4,113), Jimmy Thomson ($3,355), Byron Nelson ($3,220), Sam Snead...
...fairness to the pros, though, it must be said that they were not used to college pitchers. They swung early most of the time and fouled off a number of base knocks. Third baseman Higgins, second sacker Doerr, and hurler Byron T. Humphreys, who pitched the last inning, all gave a good account of themselves. Manager Cronin, although one winced at his shortstopping a couple of times, really hit the ball hard. In all, the Sox garnered nine hits...
Fifty-one years ago this month the crusading Farmers' Alliance began organizing in Georgia, had 100,000 members in three years. At that time Watson was a 31-year-old lawyer who played the fiddle, spouted Byron by the hour, and was considered a born orator in a State famed for them. Becoming the Alliance leader, Watson worked as hard for Negro farmers as for white, fought the convict lease system, was denounced as a communist while his followers were shot at and chased from the State...
Temple's Don Shields was the star of the tourney, Colorado's Byron ("Whizzer") White its No. 1 box-office attraction. A better football than basketball player, Rhodes Scholar-designate White grinned his way through the final game, once turned to a teammate and audibly asked, "How do you like this part of the country, my friend?" Day after the final, Whizzer visited the New York Stock Exchange. Trading (such as there was) stopped five full minutes while brokers cheered...
Best performance: Arthur Byron, as the gangster who is remorseful for having been a bad father but disgusted that his own son should be inept enough to fall into the clutches of the cops...