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...laissez faire, Melbourne was laissez faire incarnate. In both his public and private life, he let people do as they pleased, reprimanded them at most with an ironic comment. He rarely restrained his wife Caroline, an impulsive romantic, whose affair with Lord Byron was the scandal of the time. When Byron finally left her, she made her servants wear buttons with the inscription ''Ne Crede Byron [Do not believe Byron]" and slashed her wrists; Byron retaliated by sending her a bracelet made of the hair of his latest paramour...
...BYRON JANIS Villefranche, France...
...Clark, John Marshall Harlan and William J. Brennan Jr. Black and Warren are Baptists; Clark, Harlan and Douglas are Presbyterians (Douglas is a minister's son; Clark served for years as a church elder). Brennan is the court's only Roman Catholic. Justices Felix Frankfurter and Byron R. White took no part in the decision. White and Dissenter Stewart are Episcopalians, and Frankfurter is a Jew by origin, but answers "no comment" when asked about his religious affiliation...
...Leningrad crowd that surged forward to greet him at the opening concert shouting "Davai Benny"was by all odds the jazz-happiest crew the band had yet encountered. The only letdown came at what should have been a high point in the tour-the collaboration of Goodman and Pianist Byron Janis in a performance of Rhapsody in Blue...
...Both injuries require immobilization with a cast, splint, or sling. But all too often, cases are treated at home as "pulled muscles." Many of the injuries could be avoided if young pitchers were warmed up properly before going into a game. Says the University of Florida's Dr. Byron G. Brogdon, who has been compiling case histories for the past three years: "The findings suggest that Little Leaguers (ages nine to twelve) and Pony Leaguers (ages 13 to 14) are placed on a pitcher's mound, inspired to maximum efforts by the adulation of their contemporaries...