Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nelson de Melo, democratically-inclined Chief of the Federal Police, was fired. His job was handed to Coriolano de Goes. As Police Chief of São Paulo, De Goes had machine-gunned a crowd of São Paulo students who plumped for representative government last November. Three were killed, 20 wounded. When Correio da Manhã, Rio de Janeiro daily, sneaked some criticism of the Goes appointment into its editorial columns, it was promptly slapped by the Government with a whopping fine...
...Spokane last week a gallery of 10,000, the biggest crowd in the history of the Professional Golfers Association watched the biggest P.G.A. upset since Tom Creavy beat Denny Shute in 1931. Through six sub-par days, the favorite, blond, methodical Veteran Byron Nelson, fought his way to the finals. His opponent there was 29-year-old, balding Bob Hamilton of Evansville, Ind., playing his first major championship while awaiting Army induction...
Hamilton played with deliberation, not to say calculation. More than once he paced off 100 yards to the green, then came back, made a high, deadly approach shot. The crowd got impatient. But Nelson got the jitters. He missed three 2-ft. putts, lost the match and the $3,500 first prize, one down...
...Harold ("Jug") McSpaden, Nelson's inseparable partner (they practice together, coach each other, and Nelson is godfather to McSpaden's son). Jug also lost to Hamilton-in the quarterfinals...
...Newcomers George Schneiter, of Salt Lake City, and Charles Congdon, Tacoma aircraft plant inspector. They bowed to Hamilton and Nelson in the semifinals...