Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlanta, Byron Nelson putted with mechanical magic up to 45 feet, chopped 13 strokes off par for a 72-hole total of 263, never drew a deep breath as he won the last (and his fourth straight) tourney of the winter circuit. The victory upped his 1945 earnings to $17,857, gave him an eight-to-six edge in tournaments won over capable but collapsible Sammy Snead...
...help matters, he named young (37) International Harvester executive-on-leave Henry P. Nelson, boss of WPB's aircraft division, to head a special "task force," which will recommend to WPB ways to 1) help the industry clear its plants of Government-owned equipment, 2) juggle contracts so that all will get off to the same start on reconversion, 3) shift contracts, if necessary, to outside contractors so that autos can be turned out quicker...
...SERGEANT NELSON OF THE GUARDS-Gerald Kersh-John C. Winston...
...Sergeant Nelson of the Guards is part fact, part fiction; part Coldstream history, part Coldstream rag-chewing. It is also the most blood-&-thunder, swashbuckling, superpatriotic book of World War II; an American equivalent might be a history of the U.S. Marine Corps written by General George S. Patton Jr., Margaret Mitchell and Fred Allen. Gerald Kersh's Coldstreamers think they are a match for anything on earth in toughness, discipline and homespun philosophy. Author Kersh thinks...
Wartime rookies in the Coldstream Guards are crushed into shape by kipper-complexioned, one-eyed Sergeant Bill Nelson, whose arms are "gnarled as old salami," whose fists protrude "like mallets of black stinkwood," and who sounds off to new recruits like one of Mark Twain's brawny scrappers in Life on the Mississippi...