Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...competition; three of his four opponents-a 44-year-old Navy Commander named Nelson Levings, 55-year-old ex-Supreme Court Clerk Thomas Quitman Ellis and 66-year-old ex-Congressman Ross A. Collins-were campaigning hard. But Bilbo paid no heed. Instead he howled a warning: "The white people of Mississippi are sitting on a volcano. . . . We are faced with a nationwide campaign to integrate the nigger with the social life of this country...
Trafalgar Traveler. In Chatham, England, sentries at ancient St. Mary's Naval Barracks asked that the midnight watch be doubled, complained of being bothered nightly by a one-legged mariner of Lord Nelson...
...regulation 72 holes, 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...
Next day the three survivors-Nelson, Vic Ghezzi and Lloyd Mangrum-played a tight-lipped extra 18-holes, and ended up still tied. They teed off again and it was still touch & go. On the 103rd hole, willowy, wiry ex-G.I. Lloyd Mangrum, 31, of Los Angeles, who had been wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, got hot, began shooting birdies. Not even a thunderstorm just before the finish could cool him. The 108-hole totals: Mangrum 428; Nelson and Ghezzi...
...year-old boy. He himself was about 14 when he ran away from his father's Missouri farm in 1875. For the next couple of decades he bummed around the West, punching cattle, working on the railroad, acting as scout-interpreter for General George Crook and General Nelson A. Miles when they were chasing the Apache terror, Geronimo, up & down the Southwest. Finally, he developed into a "range detective" and special handyman for big Colorado-Wyoming cattlemen. His specialty was dirty jobs...