Word: hogans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bachelors of Science: Edward John Hartmann, Cornelius Joseph Hogan, William Andrew Jaracz, Martin Seymour Kapp, Frank Champion Keegan Jr., George Archibald Kelser Jr., Alden Packard Peterson, Robert Gildersleeve Rhoades, Samuel Bernard Sheldon, Edmund Rudolf Wyder...
...Liberty Editor Ernest V. Heyn. To write his first number Heyn lined up such big leaguers as Bill Tilden and Bill Stern, brought in Grantland Rice as consulting editor. The first issue, out this week, featured big picture spreads on such top-notchers as Joe Di Maggio, Ben Hogan, Ted Williams, Joe Louis. Readers would get no exposes of sports. O.J. assumes that all his readers are hero worshipers, will give his subjects the same kind of glorifying treatment that his movie magazines give screen stars...
Bulky (207 lb.), easygoing Ed Oliver went on to the finals, against Ben Hogan, had his drives booming down the fairways in the morning round, was 3 up at lunch time. But 135-lb. little Ben Hogan, a man with steel in his wrists and ice in his veins, steadied down to win going away, 6 and 4. The $3,500 prize made Ben's season earnings $33,377, and put him $12,000 ahead of his nearest rival-Nelson...
...course, a "Masked Marvel," a man in kilts and Joe Louis were going their rounds. This was Chicago Promoter George S. May's idea of a golf tournament. It was in violent conflict with most golfers' ideas, yet the top pros, from Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan on down were all there. The Tam O'Shanter offered prizes totaling $50,875, golfdom's bonanza of the year...
...three early finishers sweated it out in the locker-room, tied up at 284. One was Byron Nelson, who would have won had he not been robbed by the rule book (it cost him a stroke when his caddy accidentally kicked his ball). His toughest competitor all winter, Ben Hogan, the little man with the deadly grin, had also looked like a winner, storming up the fairway to the last two holes. Then his putter went cold; he missed a two-footer on the last green. That finished...