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Seldom brilliant, but always steady, Chapman ousted Irishman Joe Carr in one semifinal, while another former U.S. amateur champion (1949), Charley Coe, was beating Welshman Albert Evans to make it the third all-American finish in five years. In the final, after the first eighteen holes against younger (27) and longer-hitting Coe, Dick Chapman led 2-up, with a two-under-par 70 over the soggy, windswept Royal Porthcawl course...
...them have it-In a Shady Nook, It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day-in a jolly and effervescent baritone, "like an uncle at a children's party," the fans couldn't get enough of Britain's "Sinatra with blood." By his own stop watch, Welshman Peers bested Sinatra's onstage record of 35 minutes by 50 seconds...
Despite the disastrous fifth, Locke salvaged a 72 that day, two strokes behind Welshman Dai Rees. And during the final 36 holes, played the following day, Locke kept both his temper and his strokes well in hand. His morning round of 70 brought him to a three-way tie with Rees and Argentine Roberto de Vicenzo. His final 18-hole round was right off the assembly line for a 68, and a four-round total of 279-two strokes ahead of De Vicenzo, three ahead of Rees, four better than the 58-year record for the British Open...
TIME [Dec. 12] calls Dylan Thomas an English poet. Though he writes in English, he is a Welshman, and we Welsh are proud...
When he was 16, folks wagged their heads mournfully and predicted that Benjamin would break his father. But Horace Jones, a covered-wagon man who got the choicest piece of land in northwestern Missouri, would take a lot of breaking. A shrewd, hard-bitten Welshman, he founded the town of Parnell, ran the Parnell bank, and knew more about raising cattle than anybody in Nodaway County. He wanted Ben to become a banker, but that wasn't in the cards...