Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tradition-loving U.S. Navy was getting set to pitch a sea bag full of salt-rimed traditions overboard. Ready for the deep six were the square collar (origin: to protect blouses from tarred pigtails), the black neckerchief (to mourn the death of Lord Nelson), the bell-bottom trousers (to roll up easily for swabbing decks). For enlisted men, who had long envied the practical elegance of officers' uniforms while chafing at the lack of pockets and the tight fit of their own "monkey suits," it was good news. At shore stations and in the Fleet last week...
Newspapers called it the worst fog in 20 years. Officially, it was no record. The women clerks in the Air Ministry who test fogs by searching from the roof for 14 well-known landmarks (like Nelson's Column), reported that they could just discern "Object X," a building 30 yards away. Weather bugs, who call fogs by colors, dubbed this a "yellow"-worse than a "white" but not as bad as a "black...
...world's best golfer, the Los Angeles Open tourney was always a pesky stumbling block. Byron Nelson had never won it, actually finished out of the money (worse than 16th) five years ago. In his jinx tourney last week, played on the country's third toughest course, Perfectionist Nelson slipped on an early 18-inch putt, blamed wet turf, then rolled flawlessly home with a winning 284. Nelson's most likely challenger was not present: a hit-'em-a-mile amateur, Army Lieutenant Gary Middlecoff, who burned up the fairways while on furlough last fall...
Year's lowest 18-hole stroke average: Byron Nelson's 68.33, good for 19 pro golf tourney wins and an unprecedented $66,600 in war-bond prizes (an A.P. poll named him "athlete of the year" over the Army's Fullback Doc Blanchard and Detroit's 25-game-winning Pitcher Hal Newhouser...
...Miller's admirers likens him to Lord Nelson, another to a "sledgehammer." "When I say that [he] is a saint." says one, "I do not mean, of course, that he is a saint unilaterally." Other effusions: "He is not just one animal but the whole zoo"; "He is the common denominator of man"; "When he goes to sleep, it is like . . . Aphrodite ascending"; "He has returned to the womb bearing great gifts." A surrealist mingles caution with admiration: "To Henry Miller. . . . Don't let the amphibious wife strangle you with a nightgown. It isn't decent with...