Word: byronical
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Premier Pierre Laval was reported dickering for a piece of real estate on the shore of Switzerland's Lake Geneva-where Byron's famed Prisoner of Chillon ate his heart...
...Texas House of Representatives last week found some of George Gordon, Lord Byron's writings "not fit to be read by any person within or without the University [of Texas]." The House resolved to investigate the $20,000 purchase, for the university's noted rare-book collection, of early editions of Byron, Browning, Lamb, Shelley, Tennyson and Petronius Arbiter. All the House charged, were "obscene" or "atheistic...
...taken toll of the Times foreign staff. Crack Correspondent Byron Darnton was accidentally killed in New Guinea. Robert Post failed to return from a bomber trip over Wilhelmshaven. Fred Wilkins, long the Times's Manila correspondent, is a Jap prisoner. Other able, famed Timesmen, like Otto Tolischus (author of the recent Tokyo Record) and Hallett Abend (Ramparts of the Pacific), are now in the U.S. because the countries they covered are enemy-held...
...Candidates and their families and friends in Potter Auditorium for the final meeting of the class. Long coveted gold bars will adorn the shoulders of the newly-made Second Lieutenants after the ceremony of graduation is completed. Class 7-43 is to be honored by the presence of Colonel Byron E. Gates, Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Management Control, Army Air Forces, and possible other representatives from Headquarters Army Air Forces...
...Having given up their annual swing around the grapefruit circuit last winter, top-flight golfers got together in the North and South Open at Pinehurst, N.C. New eligibility rule: players must be over 38 or in uniform. With such stars as Ben Hogan, Sam Snead and Byron Nelson missing, Veteran Bobby Cruickshank, 48 and a grandfather, bagged the tournament with a mediocre 292, just 21 strokes above Hogan's winning score last year...