Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NOBODY laughed when TIME'S Montreal Bureau Chief Byron Riggan sat down to relax one night last week after TIME published (in its Canadian edition) his story of a reign of terror in Montreal's tenderloin district, but a couple of people frowned. What bothered Riggan was that the frowning men were standing in his doorway, one of them holding a knife. Angered by the story, the two hoodlums began to beat Riggan, then fled leaving the reporter, only mildly injured, with the always welcome certainty that his reporting had an audience. See PRESS, Reader Response...
...good reporter goes about his job on the premise that he can do his work without getting lynched, shot at or otherwise assaulted by anything more deadly than epithets. Sometimes the premise proves wrong, and last week one of those times came for Alabama-born Reporter Byron Riggan, 34, chief of TIME'S bureau in Montreal...
...paid out some 61% of its premiums in claims, up to 35% in agents' commissions, 15% in management expenses to Cage, who also enjoyed a reported $40,000 salary and a lavish expense account. Living high, Cage took former Texas Insurance Commission Chairmen Garland A. Smith and J. Byron Saunders on free junkets to Havana and Las Vegas in his private plane...
Married. Gig Young, 38 (real name: Byron Barr), screen (The Desperate Hours) and stage (Oh, Men! Oh, Women!) actor; and Elizabeth Montgomery, 23, daughter of Actor-TV Impresario Robert Montgomery; both for the second time; in Las Vegas...
Freest Ever. Even before his death, Sade's books were banned in France or published only in expurgated editions. But already he was a literary legend. His defiance of convention and law appealed to the romantics, and in 1843 famed Critic Sainte-Beuve wrote that Byron and Sade "are perhaps the two greatest inspirations of our moderns." Poet Charles Baudelaire admitted: "One always comes back to Sade, that is to say to the natural man, to explain evil." Swinburne declared the day would come "when statues will be erected to him in every city." French Poet Guillaume Apollinaire called...