Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miami Open, only half the usual cast showed up last week. Among the missing were four of the tour's annual headliners: Ben Hogan, leading low-scorer the past three years (now a civilian aviation student); Byron Nelson, always close on his heels (denied his plane transportation from Texas at the last moment); Sam Snead, most idolized of U.S. pros (now a third-class seaman in the Navy); and Craig Wood, National Open champion (now a captain in the Marines...
...lesser characters, rehearsing for this one performance for weeks, put on a good show. Veteran Harold McSpaden's winning total of 272 (67-70-69-66) was only three strokes higher than Byron Nelson's winning score over the same course last year. Runner-up was Johnny Revolta with...
...bust (see p. 74); but generally the bluebloods had done what they could in the face of war-like fiction's Englishmen dressing for dinner in the jungle. Among the attendant owners of rare baubles, rare pelts, rare beauty or simply rare old blood (see cuts): Mrs. Byron Foy (sapphires and diamonds); Mrs. Walter Moving (ermine); Emily Roosevelt (fifth cousin of the President) ; Mrs. John Jacob Astor (of the onetime fur-trapping Astors, pictured furless); Valerie Moore (silver fox); Mrs. Whitney Bourne (kith to the Boston Whitneys); Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (kin to one from New York); Mrs. George...
...week's end Washington authorities had been needled enough. They retorted. Reason for the censorship of some opinion, they said, is that Axis propagandists seize upon reports of Allied dissension, racial or otherwise, and feed them to European and South American peoples in exaggerated shapes. Explained U.S. Censor Byron Price: When foreign correspondents undertake to send abroad editorial comments which tend "to emphasize disunity in this country instead of stating the facts as they are," they must be censored...
Once, after a hard fight for a sensible, democratic censorship, newsmen had been reassured by the appointment of Byron Price as head of the Office of Censorship. When able Elmer Davis took over as head of OWI last summer, with executive powers straight from the President, newsmen believed that the military news jam would be dynamited. Yet within the last weeks have come some of the war's worst examples of inept, demoralizing suppression of war news...