Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minor Sport H--Steven Chandler, Hackensack, N. J., Ivan Chermayeff, Wellfleet; Jan E. Jertson, Fairhaven; Robert T. McConanghy, Sharonville, Ohio; George N. McNair, Jr., Farmington, Wash.; Christopher Martin, Saxton River, Vt.; Byron B. Morton, Elizabeth, N. J.; Lester Buryl Scherer, Des Moines, Iowa; John W. Smith, Omaha, Neb.; Eric T. Sollee, West Newton; Harry K. Ziel, Pittsburgh; Loyd M. Starett, Manager, Washington...
...exciting--if not particularly well-played game, right down to the college stars. The B.L.C. sported a host of former college stars, notably midfielder Byron Forbush (captain of Johns Hopkins last year, and second team All-American), Bill Stuff also of Hopkins, and Dean Armstrong of R.P.I. (a participant in last season North-South all-star game...
...other foilsmen fared poorly, with Captain Eric Sollee winning only three bouts and Jan Jertson, five. In saber matches, Zeil won five, Bob McConaughy took four, and Byron Morton, four...
Varsity starters will be Captain Eric Sollee, Jan Jertson, Chris Martin, and Steve Chandler, foil; Bob McConaughy, Harry Ziel, and Byron Morton, sabre; and George McNair, Jack Smith, and Les Scherer, epee...
Guys's artistic career got off to a slow start. After brief service alongside Lord Byron in the War for Greek Independence, followed by 14 years' wandering through Europe and the Middle East as soldier and adventurer, at 36 Guys decided to take up drawing. His first tries, according to his friend, Poet Charles Baudelaire, were "gloomy scratchings . . . He sketched like a barbarian, like an infant." But Guys stuck to it, and ten years later was good enough to get assignments as an artist-reporter for the Illustrated London News. "Do as you please with the landscape...