Word: texan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Handsome Vic Ghezzi, 29, of Deal, N.J., who had never won anything more important than the Los Angeles Open (six years ago): the Professional Golfers' Association championship tournament, closed-shop meeting of U.S. pros; defeating Texan Byron Nelson, defending champion, on the second extra hole of the 36-hole final; after the lead had changed four times and the match was squared four times; over the ribbon-fairwayed Cherry Hills course, one mile above sea level, at Denver. In nine previous P.G.A. championships, Ghezzi had never reached the quarterfinals...
First thing he did was appoint Ralph K. Davies, of Standard Oil Co. of California, as Deputy Petroleum Coordinator, a job reported last week to have gone to Texan Alvin J. Wirtz. Oilmen, who like and respect Davies, drew one small breath of relief...
...when Millionaire Marvin Leonard, a native Texan who had parlayed a downtown popcorn stand into Fort Worth's biggest department store, plunked a $25,000 guarantee on the directors' table of the U.S. Golf Association, its bigwigs decided that Texans deserved to play host to the blue-ribbon event of golf...
...other occasions Wood has lost both the U.S. and British Opens in playoffs. This time his 284 was three strokes better than the score of his nearest rival, Denny Shute, and five strokes better than that of third-place Ben Hogan. The next best score turned in by a Texan was the 295 of Lloyd Mangrum. Mighty Byron Nelson...
Ickes' deputy in charge of Petroleum Coordinating, the man for oilmen to see, will be Texan Alvin J. ("Senator") Wirtz, who is no Donald Duck and should help make up for Ickes' personal unpopularity in the oil fields. Last week the deputy-to-be was in Texas, running White-House-backed Lyndon Baines Johnson's campaign (against Pass-the-Biscuits-Pappy O'Daniel, Martin Dies, et al.) for the Senate...