Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Washington, U.S. Censor Byron Price and his assistant for radio, stocky J. Harold Ryan of Toledo, sent out radio's first wartime "Code of Practices." Because a few powerful domestic stations (such as Salt Lake City's 50-kw. KSL) have been heard across the Pacific, they told radiomen to be careful even in the use of already censored press news. They warned against references to the weather during sports broadcasts. They also detailed the topics upon which only official information can be given...
...official rules of what-you-can't-print were laid down last week by Censor Byron Price...
...dressed women in the world. Fifty style authorities moved her into the spot held for five years by Mrs. Harrison Williams, who dropped to fourth. Mrs. Stanley Mortimer Jr., daughter of the late, great Dr. Harvey Cushing, tied with the late Motor Magnate Walter Chrysler's daughter, Mrs. Byron Foy, for second place. The rest of the ten, in order: Brazil's Senhora Rodman Arturo de Heeren, Mrs. Thomas Shevlin, Señora Felipe A. Espil (wife of the Argentine Ambassador to the U.S.), Mrs. Robert W. Miller of San Francisco, Mrs. Robert Emmet Sherwood, Cinemactress Rosalind Russell...
Meanwhile, new Censor Byron Price, squeezed into offices in the Post Office Building, was hampered in his efforts to set up a smooth-functioning censorship machinery by a deluge of newsmen's questions that made him the most consulted man in Washington. He did get two assistants to help him: to assist in radio censorship, 56-year-old, Ohio-born John H. Ryan, vice president and general manager of a Midwest radio chain; to assist with press censorship, 45-year-old, Arkansas-born John H. Sorrells, Scripps-Howard executive editor (since...
...Trophy (which goes to the most consistent winner of the year) for the second year in a row. His tournament winnings for 1941 totaled $18,358, approximately $1,000 short of the all-time record set by Sam Snead three years ago. In 1941 Snead finished second ($12,848), Byron Nelson third...