Word: byram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese have held three fundamentalist Presbyterian missionaries incommunicado in Manchukuo since Oct. 22. Protests by the U.S. State Department have failed even to elicit the charge against the missionaries. Four days after the arrest at Harbin, the Japanese hustled the trio-Dr. and Mrs. Roy M. Byram, the Rev. Bruce Hunt-500 miles south to Antung, on the Korean border. Probable reason: to make them testify at the trial of the Korean Christians arrested for refusing to take part in State Shinto rites. Secondary reason: to frighten remaining U.S. missionaries out of Manchukuo...
...Myrtle Byram McGraw, 40, is a pretty, jolly woman upon whose slim shoulders rests the imposing title of Director of the Normal Child Development Study of the Department of Pediatrics of Columbia University. Four years ago she stopped teaching toddling moppets long enough to wed, contractually* for speed (TIME, Dec. 28, 1936), Research Engineer Rudolph Frederick Mallina. She now has an energetic 3½-year-old daughter of her own, but still spends most of her time trying to find out what makes other people's infants tick...