Word: byronical
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...beat on the long swing from Portland to Pensacola was the mechanical marvel, Byron Nelson (TIME, Oct. 23). At Gulf port, the two finished in a tie, but the man with the flawless form bowed to Slammin' Sammy in a 19-hole playoff. Afterwards it came out that Snead could have won the day before if he had not penalized himself a stroke-for nudging the ball on the all-important last hole (no one saw it but Snead...
...Byron Price had been director of Censorship long enough to know the virtues of newspapers, and a working newspaperman himself long enough (34 years) to know newspapers' faults. Last week he took a hard look at the press in general...
...next day the talks continued. This time real logs burned in the grate. Above the mantelpiece an engraving of Lord Byron, whose experiences with Greek liberation had been even more distressing than Winston Churchill's, stared down at the peacemakers. The delegates laughed at each other's jokes, smoked each other's cigarets. Communist Secretary Siantos surprised the Government delegates by blandly accepting their chief peace condition, the disarming and disbanding of ELAS. But Secretary Siantos had a condition of his own: an amnesty for all, not merely some, of the ELAS prisoners in the Government...
...Tactics. Once again Sewell Avery refused to budge from his office. But this time, no one summoned GIs to carry Avery bodily out of his office (TIME, May 8). General Byron left Avery at his desk, took for himself an adjoining office. For a day, while Signal Corps experts installed an Army switchboard, the General and his staff used a pay telephone down the hall. To get desk space for his clerks and advisers, the General turned the company auditorium into a big office, and piled its usual equipment-including a piano-on the stage. General Byron's next...
...Mass-and far less time for quietness or thought. Plain people often wonder how such supercharged individuals keep their health. The answer is, they usually do not. Anita Colby was hospitalized three years ago for complete physical exhaustion; last year two doctors kept check on her: now, like Lord Byron and a host of other driven people before her, she' has developed a habit of grinding her teeth in her sleep. To a friend concerned over her obsessive exertions she exclaimed: "But doll! Once I let up I fall apart! So I never...