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Three years ago, the U.N. charter was signed at San Francisco. During ceremonies commemorating that all but forgotten anniversary, U.S. wartime Censor Byron Price said last week: "The United Nations has not become what it was intended to be. [It] cannot endure half success and half failure...
Claude had never won a major tournament in his life, and had no illusions about this one-the famed Masters'. The elite of golf was lined up against him. Baby-faced Byron Nelson, 36, who quit the big-time two years ago because "I found myself playing more golf at 3 o'clock in the morning than in the daytime," was back to try his hand. So was the great Bobby Jones, 46 (now an Atlanta lawyer), playing his one tournament of the year. And there were such other old masters as chunky Gene Sarazen and lean Horton...
First, shorter, and better of the two, Tennessee Williams' "Lord Byron's Love Letter," is an early and preparatory piece by the current here of Broadway. The play is little more than a curious scene in the lives of two curious female inhabitants of--yes, you guessed it--New Orleans...
...would pay for the privilege a letter from George Gordon, Lord B. The play shows a crude Matron from Milwaukee and her setted husband enjoying, but not paying for, the privilege. The play ends on a flat and irrelevant imputation that the younger lady is none other than Lord Byron's granddaughter...
...Civilization. In another of his studies, Sykes writes of his friend and companion in Persia, Robert Byron, a gifted Orientalist. At Oxford in the mid-20s he was a leader in the "Oxford Aesthetes," a set accurately parodied in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. But his serious ambition was to understand the entire world into which he had been born. A fair and fearless little man, in the course of a dozen years he lived in every quarter of the world. His loyalty, at first given to his own time, was finally given to his civilization. He died...