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Legal Career: Graduated from the Georgetown University law school in 1920. In 1939, he joined in forming the firm of Hall. Robinson & Hogan in Oyster Bay. Highly successful in the law, he became surrogate (probate judge) of New York's Nassau County last January...
...fine shape for the Masters golf tournament. So were the Masters. The day before the tournament started, Lloyd Mangrum, golf's leading moneywinner, broke his own course record with a sensational 63, nine strokes under par. Defending Champion Sam Snead, who took the title away from Ben Hogan, fired a fine 71. U.S. Open Champion Julius Boros, who took that title away from Hogan in 1952, was at the peak of his game with...
Almost lost in the shuffle, but never far from anyone's mind, was Ben Hogan himself. The taciturn Texan, with eleven sub-par practice rounds under his belt, spent the final day of practice just puttering around the putting green. Admitting he was "in grand shape" (he had not played a major tournament in ten months), Hogan made one prediction: the tournament scoring record-279-would be broken. All Ben failed to say was that he would take care of the record-breaking himself...
...water on No. 15, in bunkers on Nos. 17 and 18. Each error cost him a stroke, yet he wound up with a sub-par 70 in a tie for third place-one stroke up on Snead, three on Boros, four on Mangrum. A second-round 69 put Hogan in the lead...
...Stanley Cup series. The teams will play the fourth game at the Boston Gardon tomorrow. . . . The baseball season gets under way today with the New York Yankees playing at Washington and the Milwaukee Braves battling Cincinnati. The rest of the teams are scheduled to open the season tomorrow. . . . Ben Hogan yesterday shot a final round of 69 on a par 72 course to capture his second Masters Tournament...