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Meanwhile, to gather material for the text, Montreal Correspondent Byron Riggan made the first visit of any reporter to the Mid-Canada line. Other TIME Correspondents visited DEW line sites in Alaska, interceptor bases, Nike batteries and lonely aircraft control and warning stations from Cape Cod to Southern California, and interviewed NORAD's commanders at Colorado Springs. See SCIENCE, NORAD: Defense of a Continent...
...Europe was shocked by Casement's voluminous, angry reports (published in 1904) on torture, floggings and forced labor. Later, he made similar reports for the British Foreign Office about cruel treatment of rubber-plantation workers in Peru. By now, Casement had become a romantic celebrity with something of Byron about him. He was knighted by King George V, and he wrote a fulsome letter of gratitude to Foreign Minister Sir Edward Grey about his honor...
...Negroes, who resembled college students failed in an armed robery attempt last night in the Financial Aid Office. The attack which occurred at 11:15 p.m., was apparently an attempt to steal the wallet of Byron Stookey, Jr. '57, an assistant in the office...
...brooding genius is always simmering near by-just offscreen, on the sound track, between frames. But it never really comes off for the simple reason that it was largely fraudulent, the creation of movie-fan magazines and ambitious young Dean himself. Director George Stevens, who pushed James Byron Dean very close to his brilliant acting ceiling in Giant, once phrased an obituary that is probably far more accurate than the Story: "Jimmy was just a regular kid trying to make good in Hollywood. Someone's making a pile of dough out of this morbid Dean business, and that...
Died. Thelma Chrysler Foy, fiftyish, upper-crust society hostess and patron of the arts, daughter of the late automagnate Walter P. Chrysler, wife of Chrysler Director Byron C. Foy, repeatedly voted among the world's ten best-dressed women; of leukemia; in Manhattan...