Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liked to say, "that friendship is no basis for business, but business is an excellent basis for lasting friendship." Thus when Frank Rand died at 73 last December, his job as board chairman of St. Louis' International Shoe Co. was filled by no relative but by President Byron A. Gray, a former clerk...
...Tiger in the Garden" follows the Richardson children, Caroline, Percy, and Byron, from their genteel childhood before World War I, through Caroline's scandalous elopement with Joe Conway, a man of no social standing with whom all women want to sleep: through Percy's drunkenness, debauchery, homosexuality, and early death. Conway, at first scorned by his in-laws, makes a fortune when oil is discovered in the old cotton fields, and periodically escapes the sterile Richardsons by running off to New Orleans with a lady of fashion and culture...
Hentz (W) defeated Henry Foster, 15-9, 16-18, 18-14, 15-12; Hugh Nawn defeated Jones (W), 15-8, 15-11, 15-12; Hugh Foster defeated Ackerly (W), 15-2, 15-4, 15-2; Joe Clark defeated Byron (W), 15-7, 15-10, 15-11; Jim Bacon defeated Carney (W), 15-5, 15-9, 15-4; Sam Hoar defeated Keers (W), 15-4, 15-5, 14-18, 15-10; Wistar Wood defeated Roy (W), 15-12, 15-13, 15-13; J. J. Mugaseth defeated Gindele (W), 15-10, 15-8, 15-4; Jim Richardson defeated Williams...
...whole family's disintegration. Then old Mr. Richardson died ingloriously in a hotel room from a surfeit of food, drink and women. He left just enough money for beautiful Mrs. Richardson to keep the fine old house and her social prestige, and to send young Percy and Byron to the University of Virginia. While Jim piled up a fortune in oil, handsome Percy Richardson went in for bourbon, Negro women, homosexuals and, finally, suicide. Byron was content to be a small-town lawyer and live in a cottage. Mrs. Richardson died of cancer, unreconciled to the fact that...
Captain Ray Frankmann, Joe Vera, and Eric Sollee will compete in the foils for the Crimson; John Gay, Forrest Carter, and Jay Levine in the sabers; and Joe Overholser, Byron Morton and John Smith in the epees...