Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many golf tournaments an unknown from nowhere steals the show. In last week's performance, however, the headliners hogged the spotlight from beginning to end. When the field of 120 (including Shute) narrowed down to two, the survivors of the six-day elimination matches were Byron Nelson and Henry Picard, the two top-ranking pros in the U. S. (on the basis of their scores in the circuit of P.G.A. tournaments this year...
...Nelson, a 27-year-old Texan, was trying to add the P.G.A. (match play) championship to the National Open (medal play) championship he won last month and thus become the only professional golfer besides Gene Sarazen to win the two major U. S. titles in one year. Picard, 31-year-old New Englander, had never won a major U. S. tournament although he has long been considered one of the game's best shotmakers...
...still all even. On the first extra hole, the titans, each of whom had played the 36 holes in 10 under par, plopped their balls onto the green in 2. Picard was seven feet away from the cup. He tapped his ball gently, watched it sink out of sight. Nelson was five feet away from the cup. He tapped his ball gently, but it did not sink out of sight. By a quarter-of-an-inch margin, Henry Picard earned $1,100 and became the leading money-winning pro of the year (with...
...surgeon's saw used to amputate Lord Nelson's arm at Cape St. Vincent...
From 1925 to 1936 Publisher de Graff (cousin to smart Publisher Nelson Doubleday) headed Garden City Publishing Co.'s successful Star Dollar Books, sold 15,000,000 reprints at an annual profit of around $70,000. In 1936 he went to Blue Ribbon Books (nonfiction reprints, 98? to $2.49), last year launched the successful Triangle Books (39?) for them. A top-flight book salesman who knows all the tricks of cutting cost corners, Publisher de Graff figures a profit of 1? a copy, on editions of 50,000. To the original publisher he pays royalties of 1? a copy...