Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ventured to predict the score: 8-to-4. To oppose Great Britain's topflight Golfers Henry Cotton and Alf Padgham in the opening "Scotch foursome" (partners hitting alternate strokes) he thereupon picked not Tony Manero and Ralph Guldahl, U. S. Open champions for 1936 and 1937, but Byron Nelson, 25-year-old one-time Texas railroad clerk, and seasoned Ed Dudley...
...sand bunker faced with black railroad ties. The barrier must be cleared on the second shot or the approach to the green is blind. At Grumley's bunker last week non-playing Captain Hagen's two daring selections came to the test. In the morning round, Nelson & Dudley, trailing at the 16th, rallied to clear the bunker for a birdie 4. They returned to Grumley's in the afternoon 3 up. Golfer Cotton's ball hit the bunker squarely, dropped back into the trap. Nelson & Dudley soared over, birdied again, and won the opening match...
John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (Brown '97) has distributed his offspring among U. S. colleges with the same conscientious impartiality that has characterized his largess. John Davison Rockefeller III was Princeton '29; Nelson Aldrich, Dartmouth '30; Laurance Spelman, Princeton '32; Winthrop Aldrich, Yale '35 (but no graduate); David, Harvard '36. Last week Princeton, which is currently seeking $6,500,000, elected serious young John D. Ill a life member of its Board of Trustees. Mr. Rockefeller; 31, is already a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, the General Education Board, the American Museum of Natural History...
Married. Cinemactors Gene Raymond, 28, & Jeanette MacDonald. 30; in Hollywood. Nelson Eddy sang I Love You Truly, Ginger Rogers was a bridesmaid, Harold Lloyd an usher and the whole thing cost...
...whose nave had been converted into a scented bower by $15,000 worth of flowers. Clark Gable,* Miss Harlow's Business Manager Edward J. Mannix, MGM Producer Hunt Stromberg, Director Jack Conway, Cameraman Ray June, Director William S. Van Dyke were pallbearers. Jeanette MacDonald sang Indian Love Call. Nelson Eddy sang Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life. A Christian Science reader-practitioner named Mrs. Genevieve Smith, longtime friend of Miss Harlow, read from the Psalms and from Science & Health by Mary Baker Eddy (Nelson Eddy is no kin), recited the Lord's Prayer and a trenchant 48-word eulogy...